Jelly

At first glance, this place has a similar concept as the undisputed breakfast king of denver- Snooze.  However upon closer inspection, Jelly in capitol hill has potential but definitely needs to work on a few things having opened less than a month ago.  A dining tip: unless it is snooze where you need to meet at 8am to avoid waiting 60 plus minutes on a weekend, choose to meet your friends or significant other at 9:45 rather than 10am (basically avoid top or bottom of the hour), we were seated immediately at the few open tables left and by 10am, the front door was packed with at least a dozen groups.  The space is fairly small with the walls decorated with old school cereal boxes including one with nerds cereal and another with smurfs.  Just like any breakfast centric restaurant, there are eggs (scrambles, benedicts, hashes), biscuits, and the pancake and french toast (they have chai french toast) options on the menu.  I was torn between a benedict and a hash but at game time i decided on the sweet potato hash ($7.79) with 2 over medium eggs and a single buckwheat pancake ($2).

My friend had a half order of the cinnamon sugar donut bites with her meal and just as a 5280 blog post had predicted, they were terribly chewy rather than the light and airy texture you would commonly expect.  Additionally her biscuit was cold....

When my sweet potato hash with mexican chorizo, roasted poblanos and caramelized onions arrived, we were both somewhat confused, i actually thought they made a mistake on my order due to the dozen or so split red bliss potatoes on the dish....I thought my dish was a SWEET POTATO hash!  I clarified it with the server and he said it was the correct dish.  Upon closer inspection, i noticed a few clumps of pureed sweet potatoes hidden in crevices around the bliss potatoes.  False advertising....not a fan.  Luckily the flavor from the chorizo, onions and poblanos improved the dish and the homemade strawberry jam was delicious so it was not a complete failure.  In the end, those bliss potatoes remained mostly untouched on the plate.  The buckwheat pancake was solid just a little stiffer than what I am used to from watercourse foods, but i still ate the 8 inch pancake no problem!

Plate score: 6 with potential

On a side note about watercourse which does not need a whole review, I finally tried the sweet potato and black bean tacos this weekend after so many rave reviews from a friend of mine who now lives in India.....it was delicious!  So if you need to mix things up at this vegetarian joint give the tacos a try!

Plate score: 9