Simply Sloppy Joe

So sad. Great place and wonderful owner as all have said below.

Sadly, out of business as of 12/​29/​2012.

Love the joes and the owner is really sweet and clearly proud of her product
Update– SUPER SAD that Simply Sloppy Joes is now closed. :(Boo.

I love Sloppy Joes, you know, the kind your Mom made years ago? Yes, if you are ever in the I need my Mom mode and want comfort food, this is the place to head.
The neighborhood is a little suspect and the space the restaurant occupies is nothing fancy, but the owner and chef were ubernice and kind and sweet. Loved them.
There are I believe 6 or 7 different kinds of Sloppy Joes on the menu and I was so intruiged I wanted to try them all, but in the end the old standby of a Plain Jane won out and it was yummy. Some day I shall return and get more adventerous but the Plain Jane satisfied my «I need my Mommy love’ craving. I had a side of the beans and they were great as well.
This place is nothing fancy but the food and service are over the top. I encourage anyone of wants to support a small, family run business to go here and try the great Joes.

In a society obessed with stained concrete floors, pendant lighting and complication emerges this humble single concept: SLOPPY JOES like mom used to make.
Fresh fries, hot sloppy tasty meat, gerneous portions, diner environs.
What’s not to like? The neighborhood. But that’s another review, isn’t it?

I love this place, My co workers and I eat here several time a week, They have a great variety and an even greater imagination. You not only have several kinds of sloppy joes to pick from but they will also put it on Fries, Nacho chips, Baked potatoes, Macaroni or even over a hot dog! My personal favorite is the Nutty Joe. You will not find a more friendly staff or people that enjoy their customers than you will here!!! I would recomend this place to anyone and everyone, In fact I do every chance I get. Plain and simply Great Food, Great People, Great business Simply sloppy joes, Their is nothing SIMPLE about it!!!

A unique concept and they do them very well. Rotate in some special sloppy joe’s so the menu is always different, but the mexi-​joe, the midwestern, are all good standbys. Their french fries are very good, but their beans are better.

If you like sloppy joes you definitely need to come here. 6 types of sloppy joes everyday with a 7^th daily special. You can get it with chips or fries. Those are your only options… But soo good.
And seriously the NICEST owner I have ever met. She decided we all needed cookies, so treated us to adorable vanilla wafers decorated to look like sloppy joes, and then proceeded to leave the counter so she could take our picture in front of the sign outside. So sweet.

Bummer they are closed on Sundays & Mondays… We drove all the way out to Lakewood to discover this… Will update when we can actually get in there to try some food.

Several years ago my mom told me, with a great deal of excitement, that there was a sloppy joe restaurant opening up near my home. «What, sloppy joes? Did I hear you right mom? Why on earth would anybody get excited about a sloppy joe restaurant?» Knowing that my mother is a woman of simple tastes I just laughed off her excitement and went about my merry way. Then, one day my mom called and said, «I’m taking your grandma to Simply Sloppy Joes for lunch, do you want to meet us?» Of course, I really can’t say no to lunch with my grandma, so I agreed.
So here’s the real deal. This place is not only ‘not lame’, but is actually quite good. Since that initial visit I have continued to return for a good lunch. They have traditional ketchupy sloppy joes, midwestern ‘maidrite’-ish joes, and a host of others. My personal favourites are the Joebalya (a nice cajuny Joe) and the Rocky Baljoa (like a Philly cheese steak Joe).
This place doesn’t look like much from the outside, but has enough seating for the pace of their service, and is plenty nice inside. There is, of course, nothing fancy (being a sloppy joe restaurant and all), but the two sisters (I believe) who run this place are both extraordinarily kind and friendly. In all truth I don’t usually care much for happy people, but the Joe ladies have won me over.

Sloppy joes like your mom would make! Nothing special about the place, but when you need a Sloppy Joe this is the place!

Well it’s exactly what it is, just sloppy joes.
And it’s really really good, I was down in the dumps and hit this place up with some buds and it was just what I needed to cheer me up.
I had the Spicy and the Raspberry Chipolte which I would recomend.
Serioulsy a must try if you like sloppy joes, can’t wait to come back with my daughter.
They also have the cuttest cookies for fifty cents that are a little tiny sloppy joe, made up of two vanilla waffers sandwhiched on a thin mint. So fun

OK, so I saw their ad in the Westword and thought to myself,” this sounds too crazy to be true” and I had to go check it out ASAP, so as the snow was coming down I made the short drive over to Lakewood to this little «shopette» tucked away in a neighborhood.
Now my mother never made Sloppy Joe’s when we were growing up (remind me to ask her about that) and I usually brought my lunch to school, so my only experience with them was when i traded my Oreos to the other kids eating them in the school cafeteria and that wasn’t the best experience to say the least, but hey, I was hungry and my mom put Oreos in my lunchbox everyday (remind me to thank her for that… They are the equivalent of cigarettes in prison when it comes to trading for food in Elementary school.)
This place is all about choices and I looove it when I can try a few things all at once. I chose the BBQ and Mexican Joes, subbed Fries for Chips, and a Coffee Mocha shake for a Coke. Now normally if you just get the regular combo it is only about $ 6, but with my substitutions mine was $ 10…I never said choices come cheap!
I have to take a moment to talk about the people that run this place! I cant say enough about the friendly, positive, and (dare i say it) jolly lady that took my order. I am pretty sure she is one of the owners and it certainly comes across that she is truly happy with her choice in careers and it certainly shows in her upbeat attitude. I have always said «love is the most important ingredient that should be put in everything you make» as it is here!
As I made my way to the dinning area I was the only one there and I got a great little table next to my very own space heater. My food was quickly brought out to me by what i think was one of the other owners and the «chef». Here is my only complaint about this place… my food was brought 20 feet from the kitchen to the table in a plastic grocery bag. This is how they serve all dine-​in orders. It is just wasteful and perhaps they are unaware of the giant plastic waste dump in the middle of the pacific ocean (
) and the trend towards going Green. Might I suggest investing in some paper lined baskets or trays?
My Sloppy Joe’s were, well… sloppy and flavorful with just the right ratio of «Joe to bun». The flavors were true to the original with just the right amount of additional flavors to make each one unique, If for no other reason though you have to go here for what i would say are some of the best Fries I have ever had and lord knows I have had plenty of fries from all over the world! My milkshake was pretty yummy too. And it was all made that much better by the music that was being played… I was singing Journey’s «Don’t Stop Belevin» in my head for the rest of the day!
I will definitely be back to try some of the other Joe’s and support this great family owned place and I suggest you do to!

I heard about this place from a close friend. She told me a story, nay a fairy tale, about a restaurant that specialized in sloppy Joe.
I would consider Sloppy Joe a comfort food, something mom would make for the family, something relatively cheap and easy to prepare. But Hearing about a restaurant that serves Sloppy Joe was a bit surprising, its like the first time I heard about the places around town that serve grilled cheese specifically; Heck I remember one time I was in FT. Collins at a Gentleman’s club that served PBnJ. It’s just something everyone loves that you don’t typically see on a menu.
Anyway now that I’ve incriminated myself and will likely answer some questions about the gentleman’s club from my wife; This place was pretty cool, Its a small storefront with the adjacent space for seating. One of the owners Jen greeted me with a bubbly persona and she was very willing to help me decide what to get. I sampled a few flavors of sloppy Joe (they have 5 different kinds) and decided to go with the family/​group combo which is aptly titled «I know hungry people» which included 2 containers of the sloppy Joe flavors of my choice, an 8 pack of buns, coleslaw, and Mom’s Beans. I opted for fries over the 2 sides mostly because my kids are finicky to say the least. This place rocks. if you roll, its on the north east corner of Mississippi at pierce (I almost missed it).
Word.

If you are in the mood for a sloppy joe and you don’t want to cook at home this is the place to go. When we were there they had about 5 different kinds of sloppy joes. The lady that runs the place is really friendly and had great recommendations. It is really reasonable as well. This is one of those hole in the wall places that you have to visit if you live in the Denver area. There is nothing like it.