Bowles Café
M
ost of us in the USA will spend
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especially when the food is good.
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Today is all about breakfast! If you live
in the Denver Metro area sometimes you
want to grab breakfast before you ride and
our feature restaurant, the Bowles Café
is a great place to get it. Bowles Café
features fresh cooked to order breakfast
the overall theme of the restaurant is home
cooked food, with good-sized portions at
prices you can afford.
Bowles Café located in the shopping
center on West Bowles Avenue just east
of West Coal Mine Avenue and less than
a mile from the Bowles exit on C470.
The actual address is 5925 S. Zang St.
in Littleton and is open 7 days a week
from 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. (Breakfast until
3:00 p.m.) Seating 75 people inside with
a very nice patio that serves another 25
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(weather permitting).
The restaurant is clean, the staff is
welcoming and friendly and the food is
fresh-cooked to order. The fare featured
at Bowles Café is fresh-cooked traditional
American fare, and you can certainly
find that traditional American Breakfast
with the Chicken-fried Steak and eggs,
biscuits and gravy, pancakes and
boneless pork chops with eggs. You can
also find Colorado breakfast favorites like
huevos rancheros, breakfast burritos and
rellenos smothered in green chile. If that
isn’t enough they have a house specialty
of Bavarian Crème French Toast served
with two eggs, choice of apple wood
smoked bacon, ham or sausage.
All of the breakfasts are reasonably
priced starting at around $5.00 with
most breakfasts priced at $7.50, and
the most expensive breakfast on
the menu comes in at $8.50. These
breakfasts are generously portioned
and cooked fresh-cooked to order.
Two of the breakfasts are my
favorites, the breakfast burrito and chili
rellenos with eggs.
The burrito is large and will fill hearty
appetite filled with scrambled eggs, hash
browns, and your choice of ham, bacon or
sausage rolled up and smothered in green
chile and cheese. Very tasty! The green
chile is Colorado- style with pork and is
generally mild-medium hot. When this
substantial burrito rolls out of the kitchen it
is fat on the plate and ready to help start
your day. Well prepared, hot and delicious,
this breakfast is filing and satisfies.
The other favorite I have is chile
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rellenos with eggs. The plate contains
two of the rellenos stuffed with cheese
and green chiles, tortilla-wrapped, and
fried until crispy. The cheesy rellenos
are then smothered with green chile
and cheese, served with two eggs,
hash browns and toast-- a genuinely
temptin