All for the Good Athletes of CSU!
It all begins in our Community
You know you are in a great community when its members keep supporting the younger generations. This event took place in the gorgeous home of an amazing family. A group of incredible friends helping out their community. Giving back for a better future of our young athletes of CSU.
Catering A Fund Raise for Our Loved CSU Athletes
It all begins in our Community
You know you are in a great community when its members keep supporting the younger generations. This event took place in the gorgeous home of an amazing family. A group of incredible friends helping out their community. Giving back for a better future of our young athletes of CSU.
We where so incredibly honored to have had this amazing opportunity. We where able to share our culinary art of flavors and colors, and that warms our heart. Mary Thank you very much for all your love, we had a blast and cannot wait for the next good excuse to make magic together.
This is Juli y Juan saying Go CSU!!!
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Check out this fun Pics of the Event!
Catering in a Great Collaboration Day!!
Nothing Like Let's Do it Together!
This gathering brought us together in a relatively small but very effective collaboration amongst three very passionate professionals. We loved working with Elizabeth from Luxe Event Productions, & The Articulate!! What An amazing Place!! =D
Nothing Like Let's Do it Together!
Catering With Luxe Events Productions & The Articulate
This gathering brought us together in a relatively small but very effective collaboration amongst three very passionate professionals. We loved working with Elizabeth from Luxe Event Productions and The Articulate. Since the very first time we decided to do something together everything just slide like a knife on a butter.
The Happy Hour event was a total success and in no time everyone was enjoying great food, a great company and there where lots of smiles flying here and there! We had the chance to meet new friends and great people that with time we will know we will be able to call them friends.
Thank you guys for such a great opportunity!! We look forward to work together in the near future!! All the love from Juli y Juan!! Until our Next Adventure!!
#EatWithRespect
ENJOY THIS AWESOME FUN LITTE VIDEO OF THE EVENT!!
NOTHING LIKE PICTURES!!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME!
Wedding Reception - "I Do."
Wedding Reception in Fort Collins
Food, Love & Drinks, where the theme of this amazing and gorgeous persons that we had the pleasure of cooking for their wedding reception. But this was not your traditional crowd. The groom and the bride have been with us for quite some time in this world. Proving that it is never to late to say - "I Do."
It is Never to Late to Say "I Do."
Food, Love & Drinks was the theme of this amazing couple and gorgeous people that we had the pleasure of cooking for their wedding reception. But this was not your traditional crowd. The groom and the bride have been with us for quite some time in this world. Proving that it is never to late to say - "I Do."
Around 70 guests attended this fun and prosperous evening. Since we started planning with William & Kay, everything was just easy and fun. They trusted in our creative input and since it is never about us, we went all the way with them!!
It took place in their gorgeous home, where in a matter of minutes there were people left and right, Juli & I in the kitchen, Estée backing us making sure everything keeps flowing, John hunt in the Bar and the amazing table of desserts provided by Sarah Bakery!! Yum!!!
No matter how many times we have had the pleasure of cooking in peoples homes, there is always a new adventures, always a fun story, always the challenges and the humbleness of feeling grateful that once again we are doing what we love to do for a living.
William & Tay, thank you very much for this incredible opportunity and for trusting in us to help make part of your dream come true. We had a blast!.
Special thanks to Lauralyn Hogan for everything you did, you are an amazing woman!
So until our next event, this was one more for the records!! and loving it!!
Enjoy some Fun Pictures of the Event!!
Fort Collins Wedding Association (FCWA) Launch Party was a Huge Success!
Fort Collins Wedding Association (FCWA)! Our launch party was a huge success! Thanks to all the vendors for coming out. Also a big thanks those businesses that stepped up to provide their services: Juli y Juan's Kitchen for the amazing food, Wilbur's Total Beverage for the drinks, RC Special Events for the tables/linens, Bliss Wedding Florist for the table decor, Fort Collins Strings for the entertainment, Mark Creery Photography for the photos, and Colorado Sound for Emceeing.
What an Amazing CATERING with FCWA!!!
BE Part of the CATERING Evolution!
NoCoWEP is now the Fort Collins Wedding Association (FCWA)! Their launch party was a huge success!
From 0 to 100% into a catering wedding world!
Since last year that Casey Muller decided to contact us for a small coffee meeting. From this "Mocca" meeting the idea grew tremendous in the last year. We decided to start focusing on weddings. Since then we have been on the adventure of sharing our passion with those who are trying to make a magical day. We have decided to gear towards weddings as we love details and the opportunity to help those who really want their dreams to come true.
Juli and I never know where life will takes us, but for now we are here in Fort Collins Colorado, and we cannot stop living our dreams, we cannot stop seeing that there is always something we can all do to make things better.
This year we had the opportunity to cater the Fort Collins Wedding Association and it was an honor for Juli and I to do it.
Photo by John Robson
What was on the menu?? Well just Click the Picture below!!
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We truly felt the love from everyone, I have to say that it was an amazing event that opened our heart and minds into a great group of professionals that are trying to make a difference in the "Wedding World". We are truly thankful for giving us this opportunity and we can only hope that Juli & I can offer something to better the community.
We are just quoting FCWA on their thank you note. "Also a big thanks those businesses that stepped up to provide their services: Juli y Juan's Kitchen for the amazing food, Wilbur's Total Beverage for the drinks, RC Special Events for the tables/linens, Bliss Wedding Florist for the table decor, Fort Collins Strings for the entertainment, Mark Creery Photography and John Robson for their photos, and Colorado Sound for Emceeing."
THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT PARTICIPATED!!
We hope you enjoyed our food & attention.
ENJOY SOME AMAZING PHOTOS FROM TWO GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS!
Mark Creery Photography and John Robson
EAT+DRINK Secret Supper New Years Eve 2016
MAGICAL THINGS DID HAPPEN
An epic story on how we got to be part New Years Eve Eat+Drink Secret Supper. Our stores on how amongst five chefs we created an experience for 12 courses paired with 12 cocktails. We served around 900 dishes! a definite magical moment. Don't miss this amazing pictures by John Robson, and fun video by filmmaker John Hunt.
Tonight magical things did happen
The Newcomers
I remember when we first arrived into Fort Collins. Back then we did not even know that at some point it would become our home. There were three months of traveling and 13 states still ahead of us. It was crazy, but out of everywhere we visited, it was Fort Collins that left a mark during our adventures…
The Dream
Throughout our travels, we had this “authentic” idea of creating these “secret dinners” where would change location and keep people from knowing about it until the very end. We wanted to create a fun experience, something different every time, and invite chefs to participate with us. What we did not think is that some else had already come up with that idea, and that it had set sail just before we even lifted the anchor. I suppose in life you had better not hesitate, and jump and learn to fly on your way down- or someone else will. We had learned a valuable lesson in our new town, but had it not been for this lesson, we might have never been exposed to the Eat+Drink Secret Suppers.
At first, I did not like their version of the idea: more probably that I was pissed and bummed about it. I remember saying to Juli, “Damn it! They stole our idea!” So, I did not even look more into it. I threw the ad that was in the newspaper into the trash and we moved on with our life.
After a year had passed, Juli and I had created our own fun experience. We called it “Get Up & Get Out,” and I remember I kept hearing here and there about the “Secret Suppers” in town. As we were driving our own train, we never kept our eyes off of what was, back then, “The guys that stole our idea.” The funny part is that I did not know that it was The Coloradoan Newspaper who was behind it. It was a shock when I came to realize that. What can I say? That is what happens when you walk into a perfectly functioning city… other people who have great ideas also know how to move them!
The First Encounter
Fast forward to a chef challenge that we were invited to participate in, sponsored by The Coloradoan. In the challenge, there were two prizes: one given from the organizers, “La Familia/The Family Center” "Peoples Choice Award" and the other from The Coloradoan, entitled, “The Critics Choice Award.” Somehow, we ended up winning “The Choice Award” and that’s how life introduced us to Jacob Laxen, who manages the Eat+Drink section of the newspaper.
Life's Ways
“Life just works in mysterious ways” was my parents’ favorite phrase. Over and over they put it into my head, and what I did not know, is that they were trying instill the concept of fate in me. Some version of it, at least. Well, in this case, my parents were not here to to say it, so life itself took their place to do the teaching. It was time for us to face “the guys who stole our idea.” It was time to be humble, take two steps back, and admire their achievement. It was time to be part of it… and we were happy to do so.
The Opportunity
However, it was not the Secret Supper organizers who approached to us to be part of this amazing New Year’s dinner- it was from someone that I would have never guessed… it was from a couple of chefs that we had competed against during that same “Chef Challenge,” John Lawyer and Jake Arnold, who are owners of the food truck “Corndoggies” and their food company, “Lickskillet,” and this is really when the adventure started.
John Hunt, Juli & I have a very spiritual way of living, and I cannot deny that it is what drives our ideas and our desire to grow personally, to find ways to have new experiences. When John Lawyer & Jake knocked on the door of our kitchen and explained the situation, we knew we had to be part of it. We saw an opportunity to help other people like us- two crazy human beings that were also out there trying their best to show the world the love they have for food and the community.
The Meeting
I have to say, that in no time, John Lawer, Jake, John Hunt, Juli & I were all meeting, having a drink (or seven) in our home, planning this ridiculous 12-course dinner, paired with 12 cocktails. Yes- it kind of escalated very fast! What happened that afternoon planning the menu would have been amazing to film. We went on for what must have been eight hours talking about food, experiences, love, and life. It was definitely “a magic moment,” as that famous song says. A moment that we will cherish our entire lives. We had all opened our souls and were speaking a language we could all feel in the core of our hearts.
Picture from John Robson
For us, this was the first time that we had been given the opportunity to work alongside other chefs. I have to say, that the term “too many chefs in the kitchen” is as true as it sounds. But- because there is always a “but”- if you take out the ego, there is only room to have fun. We got lucky this time- because we all decided to be humble and open-minded about what we wanted to accomplish. We all decided to just have fun.
Our mind and theirs work very differently, I admit… we have two approaches, two schools, two different ways to express the same love for food, the same passion to create an experience, and sharing this was new territory altogether for us. When we put together the menu for this Secret Supper, it felt like there was so much to do to figure out how to blend it together and tie one course in with the next. It was like trying to mix a band that plays old-school hip hop with one that plays Latin music. Now- imagine that the genre of music is “The Taste of Food.” Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen! Luckily for all of us, we all shared one beloved genre in common, that of Asian food, and finally, we decided that that was going to be the frequency in which we were going to communicate.
A Different Reality
Food is not all we do. There are amongst us a Respiratory Nurse Technician, a retired Professional Cyclist, a Graphic Designer and a Filmmaker. It’s crazy now that I think about it! But, the best part is that we are all nerds- and I am not going to deny it! So, when Holly Engelman from The Coloradoan asked us that they wanted to take pictures of us to use for promotion, we saw an awesome opportunity to just create a bigger impact.
We all decided to be ourselves. Some crazy outfits came out of that idea! Also, John Hunt, the Filmmaker, and I decided to do a video of the photoshoot and do something with it. John Hunt you are amazing, my friend! Check out the video below from Arcadian Pictures- you will not regret it!
Sold Out
Two weeks before the event it was sold out. Amazing! From that point on, we could not think about anything else but this event. The last few days, we all got together in our commissary kitchen (Juli y Juan’s Kitchen) and we were like five mad scientists coming up with a new chemical element!! And, yes- tequila was involved. We all poured our hearts and creative souls into it, wanted to share our vision, and create an unbelievable experience for our guests.
The Surprise
When we found out that the secret place was Block One, I had no idea what or where it was. You have to take in consideration that Juli & I are only in our second winter here. So we went to see the place, and I have to say, it was amazing! What a great spot! We met with Leah Dunn, the Property Manager from Black One, who was equally as hospitable as the venue itself. Fort Collins- if you have not been there, you must! We all walked around and you could see it in everyone’s eyes, the event unfolding in their minds as they began to wonder how this experience we were creating together would materialize. The intention was created, the dream was projected, and these ingredients are all parts of the recipe of ideas that is baked into reality.
The Day of the Event
All I can say is that it was like taking a deep breath, closing your eyes, opening your heart and jumping into a river so strong that you have no choice but to give into its desire. We had already planned as much as we could. We had already considered as many moves on the chess table as we could, and our next step was just to let go. And that’s exactly what we all did. There were so many amazing friends who came to our aid and jumped in to give us support and be part of this incredible experience. Thank you all, and if you are reading this, you know perfectly that we are talking abut you! From the cores of our hearts, thank you.
In the End
When we open our eyes after that deep breath of faith, when we decide to face our fears and expose our hearts to strangers, when we all pursue what we love to do with the best of our intentions, when we decide to flow with life and let go of our ego… things happen- magical things. And on this 31st of December, magical things did happen.
...And to my dear wife, I love You.
...SOME THE CREW!
THE PICS!
Special Thanks to John Robson for this amazing pictures you are about to see.
Thank you so much my friend!
Kelly’s McBartlett Summer Bash Party!!
We have to say that every event is a unique experience, and when you collaborate with someone that allows you to express your art, to be yourself, things just get a lot better. Kelly McBartlett thank you for this amazing opportunity, and for trusting your friends and family in our hands. It was a great deal for us to work for you and The Group Inc. What an amazing little place you guys have at The Source.
Kelly’s Summer Bash Party – The Group Inc
We have to say that every event is a unique experience, and when you collaborate with someone that allows you to express your art, to be yourself, things just get a lot better. Kelly McBartlett thank you for this amazing opportunity, and for trusting your friends and family in our hands. It was a great deal for us to work for you and The Group Inc. What an amazing little place you guys have at The Source.
This fun event was for 100 incredible epicureans who we had the pleasure to share our food with. We put out there a few menu options and Mexican was the choice. So we came up with 5 delicious apps, Margaritas and a Hibiscus infuse tea. The event started at 6 and it ended at 9pm, and we have to say that is was a blast!! You can always realize when the Magic Margaritas kick is, as the party spirits just goes up to the roof!! and that is exactly what happen in this adventurous Summer Bash Party.
Until next event, we are more than happy to start feeling more and more part of this gorgeous city of Fort Collins, and its wonderful community!! Kelly & Marge, thank you so much for a wonderful time!! No Cinnamon next time!!! =D With Love from us to you!!
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The One-derful First Adventure Celebration!!
The adventure continues and this time at Edwards House in Mountain Ave. We have three letters for this amazing establishment Wow!! What a treat!! We got recruited by Laura Pearson, owner of L Elizabeth Weddings and Events to make a Fun Lunch Experience for 35 guests.
It all Starts Here…
The adventure continues and this time at Edwards House in Mountain Ave. We have three letters for this amazing establishment Wow!! What a treat!! We got recruited by Laura Pearson, owner of L Elizabeth Weddings and Events to make a Fun Lunch Experience for 35 guests.
Two sandwiches, specialty waters and lots of great loving service was in the simplest way, what we had been asked for. This was our first time working with Laura, and as always there is some excitement and good anxiety when teaming for the first time with an event expert. We put some calls, check out our venue, created logistics, offer menus, and we where ready to get the show on the road.
It is amazing to admire someone else art. As we arrived we just focused our attention into getting our magic deliver, but in no time, suddenly out of the blue, the space, had just transformed from this nice looking room, into a fairy tale one year old birthday paradise for family and friends. Laura and her team had done an amazing job, and we where proud to be part of this new adventure. I could keep writing more and more, but as the old saying says “A picture says more than one thousand words”… and in this case a video is also there!! =D
Laura, we can’t thank you enough for this great opportunity!, we hope that life brings us together and we can continue sharing our art with you. Our greatest admiration to you and your team on decorating the venue.
Once again, here in the gorgeous Fort Collins, Juli y Juan says to you all, “Have a One-derful Year!!! =D Until Our Next Adventure!
We Hope You Enjoy Some Pics
Chef Challenge for Children – The Family Center / La Familia
There is nothing more fun and interesting than a new adventure. Specially one that the main purpose is to make other people’s life better. For those reasons you can always count with Us. This adventure started with a call from Jennifer Lauren from The Family Center/La Familia, which is an organization that is dedicated to help parents who are in need of a daycare and can’t figure in their financial plans a place. We had no idea what where where getting ourself into, but as much as we are not about competing, the other part that we are really interested… helping. So we where sign up for the Chef Challenge for Children.
CHEF CHALLENGE FOR CHILDREN 2016!!
What a great Adventure!
There is nothing more fun and interesting than a new adventure. Specially one that the main purpose is to make other people’s life better. For those reasons you can always count with Us. This adventure started with a call from Jennifer Lauren from The Family Center/La Familia, which is an organization that is dedicated to help parents who are in need of a daycare and can’t figure in their financial plans a place. We had no idea what where where getting ourself into, but as much as we are not about competing, the other part that we are really interested… helping. So we where sign up for the Chef Challenge for Children.
Chef & Venues
So the idea was that a few Chefs in Fort Collins where going to be paired with restaurants, bars and coffee places. Then each chef had to come up with a dish or two that paired with their venue… and to spark things up, the biggest sponsor was Noosa Yoghurt, and why not, we had to include it in our dish. So we got paired with The Bean Cycle Roasters, and we had to come out with something… which was our fun part.
We have never had the opportunity to paired our food with coffee before, so as great nerds that we are, we decided to go over the entire process of teaching our brains about coffee. We decided to go check the place, meet the staff and we even got a coffee pairing day… for those who drink lots of coffee and have never done this, we highly recommend it!! You learn so much, and you actually educate your palate. Thank you Leslie & Chaz for that wonderful experience!!
Then we went home and put our creativity into work!! We came out with two dishes;
1.- Brazilian Coffee Tiramisu, with lemon Noosa Yoghurt and chocolate shavings
2.- Caramelized pair Goat Cheese Spread, bacon bites, fresh Arugula & balsamic glazed on a crostini.
We had to pair this with an Cold Brew Arnold Palmer Coffee infused with ginger and apple juice.
The Day…
We woke up and it was time to pack our things and head over The Bean Cycle Roasters. They where supper kind to let us park in the back and as we walked into the building, there was already a sense of adventure! the kind that we love to have. So here we are, together with an amazing team; Derrick, Octavius, Juli Y Juan. the four of us, and with some more help obviously from The Bean Cycle Roasters.
The event went so smooth and fun and well I could keep telling you but what better than checking the pictures and the fun video!!
The Family Center/ La Familia Thank you so much for all the support and for this amazing opportunity!! This is Juli y Juan saying hasta pronto!!!
Enjoy Our Video Adventure!
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Open House Toll Brothers At Kechter Farms
What a great opportunity to do an event for such a great Real Estate Company. We love any kind a culinary adventure and this one was not an exception. A new residential development called Kechter Farms by Toll Brothers is happening here in Fort Collins and you all should go and take a peak!!
Kechter Farm A Residential
Real Estate Adventure
“For The Growth of New Communities!!”
What a great opportunity to do an event for such a great Real Estate Company. We love any kind a culinary adventure and this one was not an exception. A new residential development called Kechter Farms by Toll Brothers is happening here in Fort Collins and you all should go and take a peak!!
We had the opportunity to create this event In their community center, which is just amazing!!! it has a full kitchen, with a bar, all join together in one incredible design. The party was created for 60 lucky real estate agents, and I am sure a few friends… The meal we served that night was Mexican!!
I can not get tired of saying how incredible it is to have an idea and to see it become a tangible reality. We had the pleasure of meeting some great new friends, and to share our culinary arts with this great community of Fort Collins.
This is Juli y Juan touching more hearts and spreading our Art!! Until next event!!
