Succotash’s Beth Barden has a story for you
Everything at Succotash (2601 Holmes) comes with a story. The tables are from a bowling alley in Topeka, while the chairs are refugees of a defunct Thai restaurant in town. The wooden monkey next to the coffeemaker is “Little Buddy,” a gift to restaurant owner Beth Barden. He’s perched next to the aqua diner stools, so you “always have a little buddy to dine with if you’re eating alone,” Barden says. The curios and auction finds are interesting, but none have a tale as engaging as that of Barden, 44, who ran a commercial kitchen for the first time the day she opened the original Succotash in the City Market a decade ago.
