Here's the story behind Town Pump Provision s, which opened Friday in Cherry Creek .
Real estate broker Dana Monfort was looking around that walkable neighborhood, wondering why she couldn't find some basic necessities, like Advil. "In New York, they have little bodegas on every street corner (usually run by Latino families)," she says. "And then we were in California one time, and we ran into this little place in Napa Valley." There she not only bought "some water, some snacks, and then a really, really good bottle of wine," but also found Advil.
"I was like, we need this exact thing in Cherry Creek," she recalls. "The original idea was just the bodega." But then she added a fast-casual sandwich, salads and burrito deli, as well as an outpost of Little Man Ice Cream , its eleventh