Guide Restaurant

So you want to start a restaurant! You are not alone. Thousands of other people have the same dream, and many actually start restaurants. Others never get that far.
It's New Year's Eve, 1996, and I'm sitting in a beautiful log home owned by Jan and Bill Van Straaten in Clark, Colorado which is about 25 miles north of Steamboat Springs in the middle of the Routt National Forest. There's a fire in the fireplace, it's snowing outside, and Bill is cooking something that smells wonderful. The idea for this book originated here.

There are many people who are enthusiastic about food—the cooking of it, the preparation of it, the serving of it, and let’s not forget the eating of it.