Denver's Z Cuisine no more?

[ColoradoFun]

According to Jason Sheehan in the Westord Z Cuisine closed and the owners and staff opened "A Cote" (not sure on spelling) nearby. Has anyone been? Is it any bigger? Do they have any of the same dishes?

[Megiac]

I heard this today. So sad. That was one of our favorite places and a big part of the appeal was that idiosyncratic space.

The closing of Z Cuisine also negates the name of the new place, sinc A Cote means "next to." Next to what?

[rlm]

Per Westword's Cafe Bites e-mail: Chef/Owner Patrick Dupays has reconsidered and is looking to re-open Z Cuisine with a new staff and keep A Cote open as a wine bar.

[rlm]

They've been working on that space for a long time. Last spring while it was already under construction one of the staffers told me they envisioned it as a place where people could hang out and drink wine and eat apps (and it would give people a place to sit while waiting for one of the few tables at Z Cuisine), but since the two rooms weren't connected, they hadn't sussed out how to handle that. I guess they decided that it made more sense to just go with the new space and ditch the old one. I haven't been to the newly-reopened A' Côté space yet, but their website http://www.zcuisineonline.com/ has a menu posted at http://www.zcuisineonline.com/English... for last Friday the 11th and it looks similar (and very good), although I don't see the cassoulet.

[foodissexy]

what!!!!????
I love this place!
hopefully the transformation will be as lovely as the z cuisine was.

[tatamagouche]

So, just to make sure I understand, it's basically the same place, expanded, different name?
Still haven't been there; really look forward to it.