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When the business that would become El Rinconcito Restaurant struggled to attract customers, Estela Fernandez and her husband found another way to keep going. Beginning around midnight, they baked hamburger and torta buns along with Mexican sweet breads such as conchas and puerquitos. They worked until about 5 a.m., when her husband left to report […]
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PRUF proved there was an appetite for its New York-style slices when customers lined up around the corner during its opening weekend in January. Now, seven months later, the owners are ready to find out what the business can do without being constrained by a small kitchen and dining room. PRUF opened Wednesday in its […]
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Well over 100 people gathered in the parking lot outside City Market’s south Montrose store Wednesday morning as the company celebrated the completion of an $18.5 million expansion. Customers stood alongside store employees as City Market handed out door prizes, recognized workers and cut the ribbon on a project that added 20,000 square feet and […]
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Three years after losing the contract to operate the food and beverage concession at Montrose Regional Airport, The Coffee Trader is back. The longtime Montrose-based coffee company recently reopened its airport café after successfully bidding to reclaim the concession contract, replacing San Juan Coffeehouse, which had operated the space since 2023. For Dee Coram, who […]
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Ask anyone who has built a business in Montrose County and they will tell you the same thing: agriculture is not background scenery. It is the economic engine that helped build this region and continues to drive it. From the moment the Gunnison Tunnel opened in 1909 and transformed the Uncompahgre Valley into one of […]
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Montrose Business Times Montrose Regional Health’s pulmonology clinic will continue operating with additional physician coverage while Dr. Andrew Hersh serves on a temporary military deployment, the health system announced in a news release. Hersh, a pulmonologist at MRH and a 19-year member of the U.S. Air Force, is expected to return in November. Patients with […]
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The notes from an antique Becker Brothers piano drift through The Rye & The Rose, where saddles sit on wooden shelves and cocktails with names like Saddle Leather and The Outlaw’s Prayer are served alongside oysters, small plates and grazing boards. The piano, dating to around the turn of the 20th century, is not just […]
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Eight years after opening Phelanies Speakeasy in downtown Montrose, owners Phil and Melanie Freismuth are giving the business across from Horsefly a new identity. Later this month, the bar — whose name is a mashup of Phil and Melanie — will reopen as Phelanies Tipsy Tiki Bar, replacing its Prohibition-era cocktail lounge atmosphere with a […]
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After years cooking behind the scenes, Uma Stout is stepping into the spotlight. Stout, a familiar name to many local diners from her time at the Baan Thai food truck and later MsSo, opened Chef’s Uma’s Kitchen in February with one goal: bring authentic Thai food back to the forefront — and do it her […]
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Colorado’s Michael Bennet is among a bipartisan group of senators backing new legislation that would allow Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients to purchase hot rotisserie chicken with their benefits. The proposal, known as the Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act, was introduced this week by John Fetterman and Jim Justice, along with Shelley Moore Capito and […]
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