After 5 years in Intermediary’s tiny kitchen, Misfit Snack Bar is making a reputation for itself.
Chef and proprietor Bo Porytko is closing the playful bar-food idea inside Intermediary at 3401 E. Colfax on the finish of Might to seek for its personal brick-and-mortar house.
“Intermediary and Misfit have been all the time two separate companies,” Porytko advised JHB. “We have been all the time meant to splinter off and do our personal factor.”
Jareb Parker, proprietor of Intermediary, recruited Porytko to take over the cocktail bar’s kitchen in 2019, after Porytko closed down his whole-butcher restaurant Insurgent. There, Porytko created a menu steeped in nostalgia that rotates by imaginative snacks, like elote ramen or currywurst Scotch egg. He even earned a James Beard nomination final yr.
Porytko left the Misfit kitchen to open Molotov Kitschen + Cocktails, his Japanese European-inspired restaurant, a few doorways down final yr, and Rico Carbajal took over as chef-de-cuisine.
“We’re so happy with every part we now have completed in that tiny kitchen, from simply barely surviving COVID to being nominated for a James Beard award,” Porytko wrote on Instagram.
Porytko has been in search of a brand new house for Misfit for the previous couple of months and hopes to reopen in the same, hip space, like South Broadway or LoHi, as rapidly as potential.
“We’re attempting to maneuver as quick as we are able to, in order that we’re not gone too lengthy that we’re forgotten,” he advised JHB.
When Misfit finds a brand new residence, Porytko plans to broaden the menu, particularly the burger choices. The one mainstay on the Misfit menu merchandise is Porytko’s My F*cking Burger, a double smashburger with cheese, pickles, caramelized onions and a Thousand Island-style sauce. He needs so as to add a complete part of playful patties, like a BLT burger he toyed with final summer season.
“I need there to be arcade video games and pinball machines, just like the form of place you’d like to go to as a child, however for adults,” he mentioned.
As soon as Misfit closes up store in Intermediary, the kitchen will start rotating new cooks out and in each three months, as a form of culinary incubation. For the primary three months, Rock N Lobster Roll meals truck will take its place. Porytko mentioned they’ve taste-tested a wide range of fare to slender down the subsequent cooks they plan to characteristic for the next six months.
“It’s time to offer different cooks the chance to place their names on the market, and we wish to hold concepts recent for the company coming in, so there’s no menu fatigue,” Porytko mentioned.
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