Food
Lightening up
Nico Romo, culinary executive director of the 150-seat Fish, accommodates hot weather appetites with lighter dishes.
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Jalapeño Bacon from Hormel’s authentically flavored Café H line starts the morning off with a peppery kick. Menu it with Western omelets, huevos...
It seems breakfast can be the most important meal of the day—especially for restaurants. A recent Technomic MarketBriefing revealed that nearly 9 out of 10 consumers surveyed eat brunch at a restaurant at least occasionally. What’s more, Mintel predicts breakfast sales will increase 22.1 percent between now and 2017.
Menus are pushing past traditional meat choices. Chefs are thinking outside the beef-pork-poultry box and putting more goat, rabbit and pigeon or squab in the center of the plate. Kazia Jankowski of the Sterling-Rice Group in Denver predicts that this will be a leading trend in 2014, as foodies increasingly seek alternative proteins, especially from small-scale producers.