Necio Latin Eatery Coming Next Month to Sunnyside | Eater Denver

"Taking over the building at 40th Avenue and Tejon Street in Sunnyside, Necio Latin Eatery is set to open by mid-June as a Latin American restaurant serving dishes from Mexico as well as Central and South America. Chef Angel Bañales, a Sunnyside native who trained in kitchens like Range, Tamayo, and Rioja and draws on his father’s Mexican cooking and his mother’s Guatemalan recipes, is creating the menu; highlights will include his great-great-grandmother’s Oaxacan mole, a deconstructed banana leaf–wrapped tamale, empanadas, enchiladas, ceviche, churros, and horchata. Andrea Cervantes will run the bar program with elevated mezcal, tequila, and rum cocktails (she previously tended bar at Tamayo). The team is relocating their My Vision Nutrition counter next door so the two businesses can share a kitchen; the daytime operation will focus on Cervantes’ passion for health food, while the dinner and weekend brunch restaurant will lean toward “homey” and “street-style” staples. The name Necio—meaning “stubborn” or “foolish”—was a nickname Bañales’ mother used for him as a boy." - Josie Sexton