The Uber Sausage

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Determined to bring the best sausage sandwich to Denver, three friends with a passion for charcuterie and family roots in the restaurant business opened The Uber Sausage in a neighborhood fondly referred to as the gourmet ghetto – East Colfax.

Meet Alex, Brad and Henry.

With a shoestring budget of just $40,000, we focused on the food. We began by searching for a superior artisan sausage made with naturally raised meats, and never any nitrates or other artificial preservatives. We prepared house-made condiment recipes and sought out other ingredients that would make a locavore happy. We hunted for the best artisan bakery in the city. With the right elements in place, we developed a menu that pleased our palate and fulfilled our vision for creating and serving the very best sausage sandwiches in Denver.

With little left over for slick marketing or designer décor, the restaurant took on a spare, urban feel. This made our sausage sandwiches stand out even more than we had planned, which was just fine with us. After months of hard work, we finally opened the doors to The Uber Sausage in July 2011.

We realized quickly that we had something folks liked -- alot. That’s when we invited Marco to join us. With a few decades in the restaurant business, he had insight and experience we didn’t. He also believed in our original culinary vision and renewed our collective commitment to the sausage itself.

On our 15-month anniversary we stopped outsourcing our sausages and began making our own artisan sausages. That’s when Uber Sausage took on a whole new meaning.