Polly Campbell

pcampbell@enquirer.com

Brad Gilpin is closing Gilpin's. His steamed sandwich shop that feeds lunchers and late-night bar goers at 37 E. Seventh Street, Downtown, will close in May. That leaves a limited time for fans to order their favorite sandwiches, whether the Razzle Dazzle or a steamed cheeseburger. Once Gilpin's closes, Gilpin will open a new concept in the same space.

"Gilpin's was great, it was doing well, but I wasn't having fun," he said. "24-year-old Brad loved the place. I would go there all the time." But 34-year-old Brad wasn't loving it anymore, and is looking for something different, more creative. He doesn't have the menu or name for the new concept nailed down, so he's not talking about it yet. It will involve steamers, he said, and it won't involve deli meat.

"So if you have a favorite here, come and get it," he said. "We won't have the ingredients to create it for you later." Steam, he said, has the ability to infuse flavors into ingredients, and that's something he's experimenting with.

Gilpin's was based on steamed sandwiches at a bar in Oxford, Ohio. Steamed sandwiches, said Gilpin, originated near a college campus in Tennessee. "They've been doing it since the '40s. I'm ready to try something different."