After two years in enterprise, Bodega has been slapped with a cease-and-desist.
The cult-favorite brunch spot in Denver’s neighborhood Sunnyside has modified its identify to Odie B’s, after a Kansas Metropolis restaurant known as La Bodega despatched it a authorized discover, in accordance with a message that the restaurant, at 2651 W. thirty eighth Ave., posted on Instagram Monday.
“It’s already arduous sufficient to run eating places and it’s tragic when different unbiased operators are out to get ya, too,” the restaurant wrote. “Whereas change can suck and trigger heartache, we’ve lastly leaned into it. Despite the fact that we’ve fortunately been current in Denver with a number of different bodegas, we want to set ourselves aside and finish all of the confusion as we develop.”
Bodega is thought for its extremely craveable breakfast sandwiches, in addition to its burritos and burgers (which landed on The Denver Publish’s record of favorites). Proprietor Cliff Blauvelt grew up in Sunnyside and needed to supply the neighborhood a simple and playful, somewhat than pretentious, spot for breakfast and lunch. Blauvelt plans to open a second location in RiNo this fall.
And it’s not the one enterprise in Denver boasting the bodega moniker. There’s a global snack store dubbed It’s a Bodega and a newly opened chopped cheese restaurant known as Massive Apple Bodega.
In the meantime, La Bodega, which has been open since 1998, is a tapas restaurant situated a whole lot of miles away in Kansas Metropolis, one thing Odie B.’s identified on-line.
“We additionally discovered it ludacris (sic) that an independently owned restaurant 600 miles away needed us to pay to make use of the phrase bodega, however hey, that’s life,” the submit reads. “Odie B.’s remains to be a community-driven sandwich store impressed by bodegas internationally. Odie B.’s remains to be rowdy. And Odie B.’s is totally for the individuals.”
Odie B’s would be the solely change to Bodega’s typical operations.
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