Jason Sheehan wasn't bowled over by Second Home, which opened last March in the old Mirepoix space in the JW Marriott in Cherry Creek. And now Peter Karpinski, chief operating officer of Sage Restaurant Group, has announced that Jason Rogers is the new executive chef at Second Home, with Anton Barich joining the team as food & beverage director of operations.
"This is a big move for our food and beverage operation at Second Home and the JW Marriott Cherry Creek," said Karpinski in announcing th
A photo from the very bad-ass web site of Urban Farmer in Portland. This just kills me...
Got an email this morning from Sage Restaurant Group's Denver-based COO, Peter Karpinski, and now I feel as though I must immediately pack up all my stuff and move to Portland just to be closer to the new Urban Farmer restaurant open inside the Nines hotel there.
Urban Farmer is another one of Karpinski's babies, another concept from the group that already has behind them the Corner Office an
Snaps courtesy of Maggie Helseth. Thanks, Maggie!
I want to make myself absolutely clear here: I hate the word "gastropub."
Just to be sure, I'm going to repeat that: I hate the word gastropub. Got it, everyone? The word. Words are my business. I take them very seriously. And as far as words go, gastropub is a bad one. It is a clunky, stupid mish-mash of a word used to describe an eating establishment that ought to be called a restaurant -- and left at that.
I also hate the word "
