Welllll.... I really wanted to love it, but let's just say Snooze doesn't have to worry about this place as competition. Pros and cons...cons first.

1. Absolutely the worst cappuccino I have ever experienced. Like seriously, McDonald's is better. I suspect very cheap beans, maybe a very burned roast? It was inedible even with lots of sugar. Went in the trash. Really need to up their coffee game.

2. This was an order for pick up, and let's say that the presentation was... lacking. The over easy egg was overdone, scrambled was overcooked, and the poached eggs were largely hardboiled. I was looking for some huevos rancheros type breakfast, but not finding that settled on a chili type of eggs hollandaise. It made promises of some kind of green chili flavor that it did not keep. It was a lot of chili powder, and nothing else. No nuance, just a red chili powder sauce, and too much at that, but wouldn't have had any flavor without. HINT:This is Colorado-- we want our Green Chili. Costco has a great brand that many other local restaurants use very successfully, buy a few jars and warm up it up, this isn't rocket science folks. Learn how to poach an egg and make hollandaise as well, while you are at it. Poached and hardboiled are different. I made concessions considering this was a pick up order, breakfast isn't easy to do pick up, I understand, but the poached egg should not be hardboiled. A year into a pandemic and your take out business is your main source of business, you need to do a better job.

3. The pancakes...I was hoping that the pancakes would shine...but they didn't quite hit the mark either. Very flat and... different. Not entirely bad, but no fluffiness or buttermilk flavor. I picture these as pancakes made by a Midwestern person who prides themselves on blandness and "thoroughly" cooking the pancake. They weren't awful, but they weren't great either.

4. Donut holes... Now these I expected to be delicious based on the flavor variety and it just seemed like a place called Jelly should have great donuts. If you like dense donut holes with some chew, this is the place for you. I will say, I was extremely grateful that the donut holes were not sickenly sweet as most donuts are these days, definite perk there. I did feel some lightness would be helpful though. I thought the jelly donuts etc. Would have filling on the inside, but I can see why they don't, way too dense.

5. Ordered 2 cheese Danish, but got 2 slices of orange bread/cake. It was a nice orange cake, just wasn't a Danish. Would have preferred a phone call to ok the substitution or a credit.

Pros:

1. Food was ready quickly even on a holiday (Valentines)

2. The toppings on the donuts were rather well done. The raspberry jelly was real raspberry, not that sickly gel garbage. The creme anglais was nice, I bit more vanilla and a pinch more salt to be able to actually taste it and I would give it a thumbs up. The lemon was interesting. Very thick, and I believe it was a pear base with lemon flavor-- a true lemon flavor and very tasty. The salted caramel was very good, but please a little paper cup maybe to dip in? All the caramel fell off, but it was good. Maple bacon was solid, not a lot of punch but the flavor was there.

3. Packaging appears to economy friendly and biodegradable, thumbs up to that!

All in all, I don't see myself returning based on this experience. Jelly is less of a greasy spoon than Denny's, but for the price, I would rather wait in line for 3 hours to get Snooze bc their food has the right flavors, is cooked to perfection, and the price is about the same. I am not a huge fan of Lucille's either (just not my fave flavor profile/style), but would choose Lucille's over Jelly despite the wait, and the location is essentially the same.

Sorry, Jelly. I wanted you to be great and was hoping for a good place close by, but until some serious quality standards are met, we will have to part ways.