We spend so much time in the age of convenience, walking our individual paths, viewing food as an almost annoying necessity. There is a tremendous amount of labor that goes into cooking for one person to consume the amount food needed every day, without community.

Food was the original binder of communities - no matter what or who you were, you needed to eat.

As an experience, food is about the detail, the finesse, the care and attention you are translating from the raw ingredient into an emotional vibration.

It creates our epithelial tissue and in turn, every single cell is influenced by what we consume.

You may be in love, you may have never loved, you might have had your heart crushed once or twice along the way, but we have ALL eaten and felt the caress of sustenance on our internal ecosystem. Let us enjoy that moment together, in an old way.

Join us and see what the heart creates for you.

4 courses, or rather 4 love notes of food and beverage

$66

RiNo Denver

April 23rd, 2024

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My style of cuisine has been related to "Like Water for Chocolate" - a visceral emotional experience, or translation of love and care, nuanced by every single person, community and culture I have been blessed to meet and interact with.

When a mother leaves a child, she adapts to comfort herself, never truly understanding what she’s missing.

As a child, we are taught to let words slide off of our orb - I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say slides off of me and sticks to you.

When our lover betrays us, our egos may feel crippled at the insult, but the reality is, we become stronger through the pain.

Resiliency revels in this knowledge.

Western psychology smiles at the market to help those who can’t seem to find their footing, blow after blow. The medicine holders smile, knowing that this is the human experience: remembering and honoring the pain through the expression of life AND connection to the earth, as a grounding practice.

What better way to connect and ground than through food?

Artistic passion and flow are a direct correlation with this idea: resiliency.

How much can you charge yourself up to work through the pain of existence to create?

How much can you rest so you can charge yourself to keep heading towards the light?

How much will you sacrifice to build what you’ve been tasked with?

How much patience and trust can you hold in that faith?

I wanted to study philosophy and religion in college, but I was aptly reminded that I don’t come from money and guided to choose a trade that could fund my life instead, that way, no matter what, or where I went, I could be financially supported.

I chose food, my favorite and one consistent comfort.

This was the mother that my own didn’t know how to embody. This was the way my grandmother and I connected. This was the legacy of my great-grandmother, feeding her 600 person parish with finesse and ease.

What I found in the industry broke my heart though, but it also built my heart up to crave and imagine a different way.