Reader: I used to love WaterCourse...now I'll have to find other options

After nearly six years at WaterCourse Foods, last week exec chef Rachel Kesley was let go. "It's complicated, but ultimately it came down to direction," she says. "I always gave 150 percent to my job....I put my heart and soul into that place, and it's actually really sad." What will...

By Patricia Calhoun

April 2, 2014

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After nearly six years at WaterCourse Foods, last week exec chef Rachel Kesley was let go. "It's complicated, but ultimately it came down to direction," she says. "I always gave 150 percent to my job....I put my heart and soul into that place, and it's actually really sad." What will her departure man for Denver's mainstay vegetarian restaurant?

Says LeahH:

I used to love WaterCourse. But now that Rachel is gone, and now that they're charging $13 for my favorite sandwich...well, I'll have to find other options.

Sounds like Cantake8 already has:

It seriously sounds like she's unaware of what went wrong....I used to go to Watercourse all the time when they were located in the City' O digs, then in the new space it became an insider's club and I was not on the inside.

What do you think of WaterCourse these days? City, O' City? Read more about Kesley's departure here; City, O' City gets name-checked in our ongoing "hipster douchebag" restaurant discussion here.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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