![]() “We were pretty established as a bar, so it took people a few months to starting coming for breakfast.” Within those months, the Denver Biscuit Company turned into a hot spot for breakfast, with weekend lines out the door. As it turns out, Denver was just waiting for a great biscuit to arrive.Īround the same time, the Shaders opened a brick and mortar biscuit location in the back of their bar, the Atomic Cowboy, which also housed the New York-style pizza shop, Sully’s. Shader, his wife Ashleigh, and Executive Chef Jonathan Larsen brought this vision to reality and The Biscuit Bus was a huge hit at the Cherry Creek Farmer’s Market, where around 450 biscuits are eaten on any given day. It was at this point that The Biscuit Bus was born. I also liked how everything is made on the truck, making it incredibly fresh.” Then in 2009, the food truck revolution was happening everywhere but Denver so we thought that biscuits would be the perfect vessel for serving sandwiches from a food truck. I couldn’t find a good pizza, so we created Fat Sully’s. “I was in the bar business and realized that wasn’t enough,” Shader said. ![]() I recently spoke with Shader about why food was such a passion for him and how he was able to create the perfect fluffy biscuit in a city at elevation. “There were a lot of drop biscuits,” he told me, “but I couldn’t find a biscuit I loved.” After college, Shader ended up in the bar and restaurant business and really embraced food as a passion. When Drew Shader, owner of the Denver Biscuit Company, came to Colorado from Florida to attend the University of Colorado in Boulder he noticed that no one in Denver was making the traditional Southern folded biscuit (and if they were, they weren’t doing it well). But as with everything else, there is always room for improvement. In theory, biscuits are pretty straightforward, made with simple ingredients like flour, baking soda and powder, buttermilk, butter, and salt but despite their simplicity, there are countless recipes that are handed down from generation to generation, all with slight variances and diehard flour preferences. ![]() A staple to the Southern diet, at one point in time it was nearly impossible to sit down for a meal without finding biscuits at the table. There is nothing quite like a light, buttery biscuit straight from the oven.
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