CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — If the key to success within the restaurant trade is nice meals and stellar service, Manna in Fortress Rock has nailed it.
“You begin with the visible facet of it and the subsequent factor is the style,” stated Daniel Skay, head chef and operations supervisor of Manna. “This week – we’re doing a roasted herb hen on French toast. It’s a crispy, crunchy French toast. The orange mascarpone simply units it off.”
Manna has been serving up delectable dishes for many years now, delighting metro Denver diners from throughout.
“Now we have a great following,” Skay stated. “Native clientele that like to return again and dine within the restaurant. We constructed this restaurant right here in Fortress Rock to form of, carry wholesome, pure meals to the group. And every part that we do is talked about now.”
That’s as a result of this refined spot exists in a spot you may least anticipate.
“It’s cool that we nonetheless get that response from people who haven’t are available earlier than,” stated Adam Freisem, government chef at Manna. “They’re like – what do you imply you’re in a hospital?! Phrase of mouth unfold rapidly for us right here on the restaurant, which was nice.”
It is a high-quality eating expertise tucked inside AdventHealth Fortress Rock.
“And we’re hospital staff,” Skay stated. “So, we work for the hospital.”
One aspect of the kitchen serves sufferers within the hospital, like 83-year-old Dick Walker.
“I’m somewhat mesmerized right here with all this motion,” Walker stated whereas sitting in a chair in his hospital room. “The meals is past good. It’s superior. And I’m a really massive fan of meals. I’d think about I’ve gained 5 kilos since being in right here.”
The opposite aspect of the kitchen at Manna serves friends who come from throughout.
Hospital restaurant in Fortress Rock serving up high-quality eating expertise
“It’s fabulous,” stated Beth Weatherford of Colorado Springs. “We make some extent to return right here each month.”
“Our husbands suppose it’s sort of ridiculous that we go to lunch on the hospital,” stated Connie McKenzie of Aurora. “However – we do.”
The title of the restaurant additionally has a narrative.
“I used to be eager about what to call the restaurant and wished a one-word title,” Skay stated. “One evening simply earlier than mattress I stated, ‘Hey God – I bought nothing. What do you bought for me?’”
That’s when Skay stated it got here to him.
“Bounty got here into my thoughts, then Manna quickly thereafter,” Skay stated. “Manna is from the Bible, the place Moses took the Israelites out of Egypt and into the desert and God fed them manna as a result of they have been hungry.”
Right here at Manna most components are domestically grown.
“Our contemporary greens, our meats, our produce, our dairy is native, as nicely,” Skay stated.
And Skay’s crew clearly trusts his ideas.
“We continue to grow,” Freisem stated. “Increasing and developing with new issues.”
Skay stated they’re all having enjoyable with it.
“And if we’re having enjoyable – a variety of occasions what involves the desk displays that.”
And on its 10-year anniversary, Manna simply launched a brand new app-based ‘to-go’ service so that everybody locally can get pleasure from it.
“We simply went stay with Toast which sends orders immediately into the kitchen and we’re capable of see how lengthy our ticket occasions are for to-go service,” Skay stated. “It prints proper to the individual’s textual content message and says their order is prepared for pickup.”
Each prospects and workers alike the restaurant has develop into a Fortress Rock mainstay.
“It’s actually, actually good meals,” Skay stated. “Impeccable service.”
And in a location that’s just a bit outdoors the field.
“My thought was to vary the paradigm of what folks suppose for well being care,” Skay stated. “And I feel we’ve finished that.”