Good Taste
by Colin Wrenn
The sanctuary
When Pat McGaughran opened The Rio in Fort Collins in 1986, it was just 19 tables and a small closet where he and a...
Of the earth
Jake Redlener often starts his day foraging. After that, he loads his car with caviar, A5 wagyu, truffles and an assortment of mushrooms. Then...
The Shake Shack of Costa Rican chicken
Chef Byron Gomez has cooked alongside a lot of big deal chefs.
He cut his teeth in Daniel Boulud’s kitchens, a fine-dining empire which currently...
Hillside afternoon
In the 13 years that Cafe Aion has operated from its intimate location at the base of University Hill, the Spanish and Moroccan restaurant...
Love makes all the difference
When Gitanjali Shrestha moved from Pokhara, Nepal, to Longmont in 2007, she wasn’t quite sure what she was going to do. Up until then,...
Cadillac coop
Sometime in 2015, there was a moment when Anthony Bourdain and Questlove sat down at the original Yardbird to feast and discuss music and...
Our daily bread
Whenever dinner hit the table, it was always, ‘Mangia mangia, let’s eat guys,’” says Jeremiah Harvey, owner of the recently debuted Mangia Panino.
Harvey grew...
The mothership
If folks don’t know what they’re looking for, Stella’s Cucina (1123 Walnut St., Boulder) can be a little hard to find. In early January,...
Stargazing
When Michelin Guide inspectors come to judge a restaurant, they’re looking for five things — quality of products, mastery of flavor and cooking techniques,...
A family affair
“You got an extra cigarette?” asked Catherine Neckes. This was 2011, before she had permanently strained her back hauling 50 pound sacks of sugar...
A rare dinner
In March of 2020, as the world plunged into chaos, Chef Hosea Rosenberg and his wife Lauren Feder Rosenberg were dealing with an independent...
‘A sweet little treat at the end of the day’
Andrea Uzarowski spent more than two decades dreaming of opening a bakery. But first, she had to work at Noma, the beloved Copenhagen eatery.
She...
