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5/18/2013
If you’ve lived in Denver very long and enjoy Mexican food, you’ve surely made your way into a 3 Margaritas restaurant at some point in time. The restaurant, which has grown to more than twenty locations over the years, was created by three brothers, who still have a degree of ownership in all of the stores. While you could always count on getting a good meal at 3 Margaritas, there wasn’t a lot to set it apart from the myriad of other Mexican eateries in town. And, since there was different ownership at the various stores, they tended to go ...
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5/11/2013
People go into the restaurant business for all kinds of reasons. Some see it as a path to easy riches. Others seek the admiration of their friends and family. And you have those who want to share their favorite recipes with the world. One thing most of these people have in common is that they think the food service business is an easy one. But every now and then you run into someone who wants to open a restaurant because he truly has a passion for food, and a love of people. He’s paid his dues in the business, and ...
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5/4/2013
There’s a lot of me-tooism in the restaurant business. One person succeeds with a gourmet hamburger shop, and suddenly they’re on every street corner. Or a bakery specializing in cupcakes has a line out the door, and within a few weeks people are opening cupcake bakeries across the country. That being said, since the Slotted Spoon opened recently, it probably won’t be long until we see restaurants that specialize in meatballs cropping up everywhere. Yes, I said meatballs. What is more universal than the meatball? Even kids who are fussy eaters love meatballs. And octogenarians who’ve lost all their teeth ...
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4/27/2013
Most of the time when you’re headed out to eat, the simple objective is just to satisfy your hunger. Then there are those times when you’re up for an evening of exceptional dining.--an experience you’ll be mentioning and binging up in conversation months from now. For many years the go-to place when you were in the mood for a memorable evening out, was Opus in downtown Littleton. It was warm and cozy, with a stone fireplace for chilly winter nights, the service was impeccable, and the food was the ultimate in creativity. And when Opus closed its doors about a ...
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4/20/2013
Opening a restaurant is a lot like having children. You have a vision for the future, you do your best to make that dream a reality, but you also do a lot of finger-crossing along the way. And, like children, restaurants seem to take on their own identity over the years, and often turn out completely different from what you’d originally had in mind. In the early 1970’s, two brothers with a dream opened The Aurora Summit in a nondescript strip center at the corner of Parker Road and Yale in Aurora. They based their restaurant on one they’d discovered ...
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