Yellow Scene Magazine

Sous Chef Chris Royster, Flagstaff House, Boulder

September 17, 2012 Like 1 Lacy Boggs

Starting as a dishwasher at Twist in Hyde Park, New York, and working his way up to executive chef there, Chris Royster knows how to run a restaurant from the ground up. He worked as sous chef at Zucca Italian…

Magazine

Chef De Cuisine Rachel Best, Leaf Vegetarian Restaurant, Boulder

September 17, 2012 Like 2 Lacy Boggs

Rachel Best started her cooking career in the dining hall kitchens at CU. Before graduating, she worked at the Dushanbe Tea House before taking a few years off from cooking to work in the agricultural field and then attend the…

Off Menu

Chef Garde Manager & Expeditor Zach Williams, Sugarbeet, Longmont

September 17, 2012 Like 1 Lacy Boggs

A true farm-to-table connoisseur, Williams started at Sugarbeet as a Johnson & Wales intern in 2010 and has been there ever since. He also works the fields at Zweck’s farm in Longmont and at the CSU extension office as a…

Magazine

Pizzaiolo Jordan Wallace, Pizzeria Locale, Boulder

September 17, 2012 Like 1 Lacy Boggs

After culinary school in Torino, Italy, Wallace returned to Colorado and landed his first job in the states with Frasca Food and Wine. After working there for more than five years and rising to sous chef, the owners sent him…

Magazine

Young Guns: 2nd Annual Chef’s Issue

September 17, 2012 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

This ain’t a playground. From the kitchens of Boulder County, chefs are making names for themselves in the national press, on reality TV and among their own. But there is a new generation making its way into the food world—raised…

Magazine

Executive Chef Joe Arena, Bitter Bar, Boulder

September 17, 2012 Like 1 Lacy Boggs

Arena has been cooking since he was 12, but wasn’t legally allowed to do it for a paycheck until he was 17 and working at a supermarket in the prepared foods section. From there, he headed to the Culinary Institute…

Magazine

Cheat Sheet: The Beer Runs Through It

September 17, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

“I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.” Homer Simpson said that, of course, and it makes you wonder whether Springfield is located in Colorado. While not resorting to Homer’s extremes, the simple truth is…

Magazine

Month in Review: August 2012

September 17, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

Neil Armstrong died, and an intoxicated woman in Longmont was arrested for shoving a puppy down her pants. The USA Pro Cycling Challenge roared through Boulder in what one event organizer said was the “biggest day” in the event’s history.…

Magazine

Here’s to Beer

September 17, 2012 Like 0 Andra Coberly

I attended college on the central coast of California—a beautiful little town nestled among the morros and cuddled up around a simple Spanish mission. It was a college town and a retirement town, and that left little room for anyone…

Online News

Price gouging at Denver’s presidential debate

September 17, 2012 Like 0 Jonathan Strungis

Denver will take the spotlight early this election season, kicking off this year’s presidential debates with a classic Lincoln v Douglass-style debate on Oct. 3 at University of Denver’s Ritchie Center. Before you get your hopes up, unless you’re lucky…