2021 Denver Food + Wine Festival

Rocio Neyra Palmer
Summit at The Broadmoor

Rocio Neyra Palmer is Chef de Cuisine at Summit, an American Brassiere at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. Rocio was raised in Peru, where she fell in love with the culinary arts thanks to sharing a kitchen with her grandmother. She formally studied cooking in culinary school, but also pursued a degree in farming and […]

Bill Espiricueta
Smōk

Though spirit-wise he’s a Colorado boy, Executive Chef/Owner Bill Espiricueta was born in Austin, Texas. He’s been eating, making, and enjoying BBQ with a fiery passion since a young age, getting his professional start at Kansas City’s progressive Bluestem Restaurant before jumping to fine dining, working with Chef Nobu Matsuhisa at Nobu in downtown Dallas’s […]

Dave Hadley
Samosa Shop

A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, chef Dave Hadley draws inspiration from the Southern Indian and global fare grew up eating. Hadley has worked at Bangkok’s two- Michelin star GAGGAN, noted as the best restaurant in Asia and the fourth best in the world in the 2019 list of the World’s 50 Best […]

Rosenberg’s Bagels & Deli

Authentic New York bagels, smoked fish, schmears, and more! Learn all about it at Rosenberg’s Bagels & Delicatessen | Rosenberg’s Bagels (rosenbergsbagels.com)

David Right
Right Cream

In June 2020, amidst the widespread closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, David Right took to his lifelong passion of food and created Right Cream out of his home kitchen. Although David is not a classically trained chef, his whimsical approach to ice cream has propelled him to being one of the most successful ice […]

Kenny Lee
Reckless Noodle House

Before chef Kenny Lee made Seattle his home in 1979, he lived in Cambodia and Thailand, where he grew up surrounded by the diverse flavors of his Chaozhou-Chinese mother’s Southeast Asian and Southern Chinese cooking. Out of these rich culinary histories and heritages, Kenny draws out his own brand of pan-Asian cuisine, first introduced to […]