If he’d known that someday he’d want to go into the restaurant business, says Quentin Seiler, he would have purchased his grandparents’ famous Colwich restaurant and catering business — Syl’s — before it was turned over to new owners a decade ago.
But he didn’t know, so Seiler — a competitive pitmaster and food trucker who learned what he knows about cooking and catering while working in the family restaurant — went searching for a new building when he decided he’d outgrown his food truck.
Now, Seiler is on the verge of following in the footsteps of his late grandfather, Sylvester Seiler, and his grandmother, MaryJo Seiler. He’s opening a restaurant he’ll call Q’s Your Daddy BBQ & Catering in the building at 5125 N. Maize Road that is best known as the former home of Nancy’s Amazing Sandwiches. Owner Nancy Parish closed the restaurant, which had been in business for 16 years, in 2021.
Seiler, who is transitioning out of his job at a machine shop so that he can devote his full attention to the restaurant, said that it will include some nods to his grandparents’ business, which closed in 2023 after 47 years. (The space is now home to a business called The Gathering Space.)…