After over a decade in downtown Denver, Parsley will be moving from its Cherokee St. digs to a new as yet undisclosed location. Per Westword, Parsley’s former home is slated for redevelopment. After closing on December 17, owners hope to open a new space by June 2023.
“We’re looking for places now. We’ve got three or four places that we are considering,” co-founder Jason Robert Bailey said in a conversation with What Now Denver. “We’ll try and stay as close to the downtown core as possible.”
Parsley has been serving organic salads, soups, sandwiches, and smoothies in its Cherokee St. locale for 14 years. It specializes in savory meal with fresh vegetables and high-quality ingredients. This includes “The Cherokee” sandwich for meat-eaters — roasted turkey, roasted green chiles, pepper-jack cheese, vine-ripened tomato, red onion, and chipotle sauce — and a lighter, sans-meat version for vegans that substitutes guacamole for the chipotle sauce and a green chile hummus for the turkey.
“14 years is a good run for a shop that’s more organic than any other store in town,” Bailey said.
Parsley is open about the challenge of being organic. The restaurant’s site claims that its product is 60% organic “and working to improve this measurement.” Denver’s varied climate and thin soil doesn’t allow for a lot of agricultural production. Therefore, Parsley supplies its food from more than 40 vendors, from farmer’s markets to Costco. The eatery factors in efficiency and energy usage while striving for green practices. There was even a rooftop garden on the Cherokee location that supplied “about a quarter of a percent” of its produce, according to Bailey.
Watch for What Now Denver updates about Parsley’s comeback as the situation progresses in the coming weeks.
