![]() David Dobek, Sean Kulzer and Mike DePalma with SullivanHayes brokered the deal. The ChoLon owners signed a lease for the 3,600-square-foot space on the ground floor of Lakehouse this month. Walking around the dining room, I heard people talking about the food and the experience instead of politics and religion.” But people slowly started to accept it and embrace it. “There were a lot of steak houses and farm-to-table restaurants, and I showed up and started doing family style Asian food, which threw people for a loop. “ChoLon certainly wasn’t a home run right off the bat,” Symensma said. In 2019, Symensma and Davis-Massey also opened a second ChoLon location in Central Park in place of their New American restaurant, Concourse Restaurant Moderne, which they closed that year after two years in the Eastbridge Town Center shopping center. ![]() The partners also own two more concepts in the SugarCube Building: LeRoux, a French restaurant that grew out of Avanti into its own brick-and-mortar in 2019, and YumCha, a dumpling and noodle bar previously known as Cho77, which reopened in June. The bistro’s popular dishes include French onion soup dumplings, pork belly buns and wagyu beef skewers.ĬhoLon has two other locations, one that opened downtown in 2010 and another in Central Park that opened in 2019. Symensma worked as an executive chef at Asian restaurants like Buddakan in New York for 10 years before opening ChoLon with business partner Christopher Davis-Massey. He added, “Fast forward to now, and I feel Lakehouse is doing the same thing - upping the ante for what high-end living in Denver is all about.” “The owner Grant McCargo really invested a lot of time and effort in making sure that building was putting downtown Denver on the map and setting the pace for a lot of what Denver turned into in that area.” “When we opened ChoLon downtown 11 years ago, the SugarCube Building we’re in was state-of-the-art and winning awards for green technology,” said co-owner and Chef Lon Symensma. 17th Ave., right across the street from the park. ![]() in 2010, plans to open another location in the summer of 2022 on the ground floor of the 12-story Lakehouse condo building at 4200 W. The local Asian bistro, which first opened downtown at 2555 Blake St. ChoLon Modern Asian co-owner and chef Lon Symensma is opening another location in the Lakehouse, which he said is “upping the ante for what high-end living in Denver is all about.” ( Photos courtesy of ChoLon)ĬhoLon Modern Asian has dropped anchor in Sloan’s Lake.
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