Announcing a Contest at D Bar - Help us Name a Dessert and Win! It’s not uncommon for fans to suggest names for items on our entrée and dessert menu. We have never actually used one, but that’s all about to change. At D-Bar desserts, we love our fans and have decided to pass the fun of naming deserts over to you. Keegan and Lisa invented a new, delicious peach dessert that is begging for an awesome name. We can't wait to hear your creative submissions! The dessert: creme brulee · peaches² · vanilla · lavender · ice wine sparkle The rules: 1. You must be a fan on Facebook to be eligible - www.facebook.com/dbardesserts 2. Submit ideas for names this week only on our Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/dbardesserts) - all submissions must be in by Friday, July 29 5:00pm Mountain Time. 3. Over the weekend, Keegan and Lisa will select their top favorites, and voting will begin on Facebook, August 1, 2011. 4. Polls will close Friday, August 5 at 5:00pm Mountain Time. 5. The winner will be announced on Facebook. The Spoils: The winner of the most Facebook votes will be given a $50 gift card to D Bar, along with a signed copy of the menu with your dessert name on it from Keegan & Lisa. The Fine Print: - No profanity please. - Don't be a jerk - please don't spam our wall with 100 name ideas, try to keep it to 3 ideas or less. - The first person to post an idea on our wall is the one who gets credit for it Feel free to visit our website anytime to download menus, check our hours, and get the latest news about D Bar at www.dbardesserts.com. Follow us on Facebook to Participate!              Come Visit Us! We are located on 17th Avenue in Downtown Denver. You can get and print directions to our restaurant here.

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D Bar Desserts is Making  Restaurant Week Sweeter!  No Reservations Needed!  Lisa & Keegan have put their heads together to develop one of our most decadent Restaurant Week menus yet. Of course, we are doing it D Bar style, so a delicious entree and a lot of dessert! Restaurant Week Starts Today - February 26 - March 11, 2011 For only $52.80 (for 2 people), you can can enjoy a four-course meal, including: First Course Braised Short Ribs & Arugula Pecorino Salad Vegetarian Option ~ Gnocchi with Brown Butter Sage and Parmesan Second Course Tasting of Citrus  Third Course Trio of Chocolate ~ Baby Cake and Shake, Soufflé, Cremeux Jivara Lactee  Fourth Course Assorted Mignardise ~ Pâté de Fruit, French Macaroon, Bon-Bon Special Additional Item -  We are also including a lovely glass of Secco Italian Sparkling Rose in the price! Restaurant week is February 26 - March 11, 2011 so mark your Calendar. We are not limiting our number of spots for this, so no reservations needed - just come and enjoy! Feel free to visit our website anytime to download menus, check our hours, and get the latest news about D Bar at www.dbardesserts.com. Also, we are up for "best desserts" in Denver from 5280 - if you love our desserts, please vote for us at: http://www.5280.com/forms/top-town-ballot-2011  Follow us on Social Media! Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook              Come Visit Us! We are located on 17th Avenue in Downtown Denver. You can get and print directions to our restaurant here.

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Shame on me!

I finally post a blog after, I don’t know how long, then promise “tomorrow I will post…” and I don’t post – terrible!

I gotta be honest though – I didn’t think anyone would notice or care. Much to my surprise, they do. A lot of people left me encouraging messages and some scolded (much deserved I feel) to keep on posting. Yay!  I will. Who knew?

So back to our topic: I am restless.  I want more out all of us at d bar (except maybe for Bailey – I don’t know how she could do more. She is simply amazing.).

I have all kinds of quotes and mantras floating around in my head about excellence. The one I use the most at d bar is: excellence is in the details - focus on the details and excellence will follow. I have been fortunate enough to work with some of the best there are when it comes to excellence: Charlie Trotter, Jacquy Pfeiffer, Norman Love, and Steve Wynn to name a few. I am not as good as they are at bringing a team of people together to pursue excellence. I don’t know if I ever will be. I am, however, never going to stop trying.

The caveat with my little ditty about excellence is that it presumes all the big things are already in order. You know, the big things: when the floor or bathroom is dirty you clean it, when a table needs to be bussed you do it – whether it is in your station or not. As a cook you taste everything you prepare. Every time.  What if these things are not in order? Does everybody feel like they are the only ones who notice that things are not right? Are we all constantly, secretly finger pointing?

Some people care about doing a good job more than others. Some just don’t care. Can you make them care? I have always presumed everyone wants to do the best they can in all things. That is not the case. Some people live for doing just enough to get by. I don’t understand it. Did the Four Seasons hire all the good ones already? Of course not!

Perhaps I need to cowboy up on my leadership skills.

The other things on my mind are corn (really good this year-corn dessert on its way at d bar!), peaches (why I haven’t had any really good ones from Colorado yet) and how aggravating I find opening and closing duty lists. Tackle it in my post tomorrow. This time I really will. Thanks to all those who wrote me for keeping me in line.

kg

here we are more than a week later and no new posts! geez. as it turns out i didn't even do the last blog post correctly i created a whole new blog. i will try again. we are closed on sunday and i will post a food network challenge item or two then.
last weekend after we finished shooting challenge i went to do the Southwest Florida Food and Wine Festival. great event and we raised a ton of money for childrens hospital. i got to work with a dear friend, old boss and mentor Norman Love. the dinner we did on friday raised money for children's oncology and that dinner alone raised $50,000. i had a fun idea to auction off Norman and I doing a 5 course dessert experience in someone's home for up to 12 people during the live auction and it ended up going for $15,000! so psyched to be giving to the children's hospital in that way.
next week D bar is participating in the Taste Test series at The Lab at Belmar. check it out if you can. a really cool event I am looking forward to. here is a link to find out some details:
 http://www.belmarlab.org/calendar.php?year=2009&month=3&day=12#3.12.2009
on march 28th i am doing an event called Afternoon Delight at BAC (Builders Appliance Center) sponsored by the Junior League of Denver. should be great fun and great food! here is a link to check that out:
http://www.jld.org/?nd=kitchen_tour