After a year and a summer spent dishing up chopped cheese sandwiches and other New York City-style grub in South Broadway, Brian Murphy is huddling up his team back inside his food truck.
Big Apple Bodega’s eye-popping diner at 2231 South Broadway closed late last month, Murphy said Wednesday in an Instagram post.
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“Well, we gave it our best shot!! We have now officially closed our brick and mortar location on S Broadway,” the post’s caption read.
Murphy will restart the business in his food truck and set up shop on the grounds of a Home Depot at 7990 W. Crestline Ave., near Ken Caryl, in the far reaches of southwest Denver, the release said.
The shop is returning to its roots: Murphy began Big Apple Bodega in 2022 as a food truck before opening the restaurant in May of 2024.
Chopped cheese sandwiches contain a gooey, savory mixture of ground beef, onions and cheese. The sandwiches are prepared in bodegas in all five boroughs of New York. When Big Apple Bodega, chopped cheese was still unusual to many in Denver.