Czerny closes one, The Kitchen partners to open another
I’m in Germany right now, as you know if you have been reading this blog, so it’s a little tough to follow Boulder restaurant news (not for lack of online resources but for lack of time), but here’s what I recently learned.
Talented chef/restaurateur Radek Czerny, whose l’Atelier on East Pearl is one of Boulder’s culinary landmarks, has closed Radex Bistro at 28th and Iris. He opened it with the seemingly unfortunate name, Full Belly Bistro. That always reminded me of an all-you-can-eat joint It was bright and moderately priced, and even renaming it Radex Bistro as a tribute to a restaurant he once operated in Denver didn’t help. Now it’s gone.
Meanwhile, The Kitchen is set to expand next door into theWest Pearl space most recently occupied by Abo’s, pizzaman Steve Abo’s attempt at a downtown restaurant. Actually, it was his second try in the space that was previously Seven Eurobar, Seven and Seven on Pearl.
Abo too tried the renaming tactic to try to keep a restaurant afloat there. First, he opened a confusing thematically named and decorated restaurant called Circle, then he reinvented it as Abo’s on Pearl, a sitdown restaurant, the Daily Camerareaders again named Abo’s as their favorite pizza, the restaurant was closed.
According to a recent tidbit reported by Westword, Kimbal Musk and Hugo Matheson are expanding into that space. The owners of The Kitchen and its associated upstairs wine bar/lounge are remaking it into The Kitchen Cafe to open in 2011. When The Kitchen, which opened about six years ago in an East Pearl space that had been a used bookstore and then the short-lived Triana, it was one of Boulder’s first restaurants (perhaps the first) to aggressively promote sustainable and green practices, such as local sourcing of foods, filtered rather than bottled water, recyclables and wind power.
“It’ll be a modern-day pub,” Musk told Westword‘s Laura Shunk. “We want to create a public space for sharing food and drink with friends that upholds The Kitchen’s philosophy on food but expands the community by offering a more price-accessible menu.”
I wonder whether they might have had the new place in the back of their minds all along, since The Kitchen’s URL is thekitchencafe.com.
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