{"id":2445139,"date":"2019-06-09T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/business-monday-520-grill-adds-topper-breakfast-to-its-menu\/"},"modified":"2019-06-09T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T03:36:00","slug":"business-monday-520-grill-adds-topper-breakfast-to-its-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/business-monday-520-grill-adds-topper-breakfast-to-its-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Monday: 520 Grill adds Topper, breakfast to its menu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Greg Topper shows off one of his breakfast offerings last week at Eggs@520, which serves breakfast from 7-10 a.m. from the 520 Grill space on Cooper Avenue.<\/strong>
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It\u2019s been nearly a decade since Chef Greg Topper has run his own restaurant in Aspen, and it remains that way \u2014 almost.<\/p>\n

Topper recently linked arms with another longtime Aspen service-industry mainstay, Troy Selby, owner of 520 Grill on Cooper Avenue.<\/p>\n

When it\u2019s not open for lunch and dinner this summer, the subterranean space 520 Grill uses is now home to Eggs@520, a breakfast joint headed by Topper and Selby \u2014 the two cooks in the kitchen who will ring up your morning order, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreg and I have wanted to do something together for a long time,\u201d said Selby, a former executive chef at La Cantina and chef at Lucci\u2019s, both Aspen restaurants of the past. Selby opened 520 Grill around nine years ago, while Topper closed his restaurant \u2014 Topper\u2019s, which had been located in the Clark\u2019s Market shopping center \u2014 in 2010 after a decade of operation.<\/p>\n

The Topper\u2019s restaurant had worked around the \u201cfast-food casual\u201d theme, and the like-named chef says the breakfast spot will seek the same effect \u2014 filling breakfasts with basic ingredients.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think breakfast sometimes gets mailed in,\u201d Topper said as he whipped up one of his menu offerings Wednesday, the day Eggs@520 premiered its breakfast sandwiches and bowls \u2014 ranging from $9 to $10.50 \u2014 that mostly are named after ski runs on Aspen Mountain.<\/p>\n

The chef added that \u201cTopper\u2019s was known as quality food to go,\u201d which is what he and Selby are going for with Eggs@520.<\/p>\n

520 Grill, which seats 32, gets the ski and local crowd, serving as a no-nonsense place to grab a burger, taco or salad, among other meals. It\u2019s open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., while Eggs@520 opens at 7 in the morning, with times subject to change. Breakfast winds down around 10.<\/p>\n

Topper and Selby plan to keep the breakfast spot cooking at least through the summer, if not longer.<\/p>\n

For now, the two businessmen, with 46 years of local restaurant experience between them, are running Eggs@520 on their own. 520 Grill has its owns employees, accounting setup and inventory, while Eggs@520 is a different enterprise, Selby said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re calling it a pop-up,\u201d Topper said of Eggs@520.<\/p>\n

Business growth is welcome, Topper said. But he\u2019s not in a hurry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe worst and best thing I can have is needing to hire somebody,\u201d said Topper, who also is a private chef and has done catering.<\/p>\n

rcarroll@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greg Topper shows off one of his breakfast offerings last week at Eggs@520, which serves breakfast from 7-10 a.m. from the 520 Grill space on Cooper Avenue.Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times It\u2019s been nearly a decade since Chef Greg Topper has run his own restaurant in Aspen, and it remains that way \u2014 almost. Topper recently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 12:28:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}