Sean Naylor/snaylor@vaildaily.com
It’s not every day you get to eat Bananas Foster from the descendants of its creators, nor is it every day you get to chat and mingle with some of the world’s elite chefs as they serve you multi-course meals with a house sommelier pouring the pairings. But at Grand Hyatt Vail, this was the scene Thursday evening, as they kicked off their Summer Creekside Dinner Series hosted by Executive Chef Pierson Shields.
“We wanted to do something fun, something different to bring people into Vail,” Shields said. “So we started calling in some favors, calling some friends, and we came up with an awesome list of six great chefs over an eight-week period this summer.”
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The simultaneous rush to ramp up restaurant re-openings to full capacity has stacked the odds against all the smaller independent restaurants. With thousands of restaurants hiring, it’s a buyer’s market. Unemployment checks are allowing others to stave off returning to work, while larger chains, and those attached to hotels, can offer higher wages and better benefits to would-be staff. With vaccines rolling out, the demand to dine out has increased – but small independent restaurants like