Photo by: Andrew Fielding

Skew Restaurant will open in December in the area left vacant by Stick-E Star, one of the most popular student hangouts that closed in April.

Skew will have a family-oriented atmosphere but cater to DU students, parents, alumni and local University Park residents. Skew will be open every day, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Lunch and dinner entrées will be available for under $10, according to Marcus Apipattanamontree, one of Skew’s managing partners.

Items will include Asian dishes, such breaded pork and chicken teriyaki, both on skewers.

“We grew up with this food, and we believe it to be a convenience – holding food on a stick in your left hand and holding a napkin in your right,” said Apipattanamontree’s brother and business partner, Hutch Phanichamnuay.

“It’s art on a stick,” said Apipattanamontree, 26. “We’re taking an Asian favorite, deconstructing it and putting it on a stick.”

Both sit-down and takeout dining options will be available, but the service concept will include basic, quick-grab skewers for those with time constraints, like students, the brothers said.

Skew will serve different alcoholic beverages, including muddled fresh drinks like the Caipirinha, Brazil’s national cocktail made with cachaça, sugar and lime, but to be concocted at Skew with original tweaks to the national recipe.

It also will serve some alcoholic beverages in special volcano-shaped glasses that will contain drinks like the Bangkok iced tea.

“We would like to call ourselves a lounge,” said Phanichamnuay, 31. The business partners intend to establish Skew as a location for the community to frequent before going out to bars or other events for the evening.

Apipattanamontree, Phanichamnuay and Phanichamnuay’s wife Wattra Phairatphiboon, 30, have been working for four months to prepare for the December opening.

The same design team behind local breakfast restaurant Snooze has worked on the interior of Skew, which will offer three different seating areas: bar seating, a family dining area and a banquet table that will seat 8 to 10 people.

Skew will be the third restaurant operated by Phanichamnuay. He moved to Denver from South Orange County, Calif., with his wife and Apipattanamontree to start this new venture.

“We’re very confident in our product,” said Apipattanamontree. “Value, good food, a good setting – what more could you ask for?”

“Value – that pretty much says it all,” said Phanichamnuay of Skew.

Skew is located at 2070 S. University Blvd. Follow Skew Restaurant online at twitter.com/skewrestaurant.