Travis Smith prepares a salade niçoise at Bistro Colorado (Photo credit Anya Semenoff, YourHub)
Before opening his restaurant in Evergreen, Travis Smith cooked at ski resorts and competed at the Olympic level in culinary arts.
Smith, chef-owner of Bistro Colorado, competed on the U.S. military culinary team and has won numerous awards and titles from the American Culinary Federation, including Chef of the Year, and will be a judge at the Colorado regional competitions this March.
. . . "We had our best year ever last year, increased (business) 30 percent," said Jim Sylvester, general manager of Keys on the Green, the restaurant at Evergreen Golf Course.
Sylvester credits the arrival of new ownership three years ago and an overall revamp of the restaurant's interior and menu, as well as chef Chris O'Brien, who has led kitchens at the Isle of Capri in Black Hawk, the Hyatt Regency and some of his own restaurants.
. . . Willow Creek Restaurant owner Curtis Lincoln opened his Evergreen Lake-side restaurant in 2009 after working at restaurants in New York City, Vail and the Brown Palace.
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