About Colorado BBQ
What is Colorado BBQ?
You’ve heard of Kansas-City style, Texas-style, and Memphis-style BBQ, but by now you might be asking yourself, “what’s Colorado-style BBQ?”
According to Head Chef Greg Anderson, Colorado BBQ is about taking the best that the barbecue world has to offer and creating something new. Just as the Colorado restaurant scene has become a melting pot for many cuisines, Colorado BBQ is doing the same with their smoked meat and sauces.
Barbecue is a community and it’s not just limited to the United States. You’ll find variations of slow-smoked meats in a variety of cultures around the world, from Char Siu in China to Carne Asada in Mexico.
At Colorado BBQ, you’re going to recognize some of the barbecue flavors from traditional Texas-style or North Carolina-style BBQ, but our menu draws inspiration from a more global selection of herbs and spices to enhance the flavors of each type of meat.
Meet Chef Greg Anderson
Hailing from Tyler, Texas, Head Chef Greg Anderson graduated from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Austin. He made his way to Colorado via the Rocky Mountains as a sous chef for Vail Resorts, where he first fell in love with the mountains.
It was during his time as executive chef and pit master at the West End Tavern in Boulder that he got to pull from his Texas BBQ roots and begin showcasing what Colorado had to offer the barbeque community at large. But Boulder wasn’t the right place for Anderson.
He realized he was a different, better version of himself in the mountains, so it was back to the Rockies he went, ending up in Summit County as the executive chef for the Keystone Lodge, followed by The Uptown and now Colorado BBQ.
It’s his goal to bring the sense of community that he’s always felt with BBQ into all the food that’s served on the menu, whether it’s their signature beef brisket or skillet mac ‘n’ cheese.
Sustainability and Colorado BBQ
When we started Colorado BBQ, we made sustainability one of our core values and hit the books to see how we can reduce our environmental footprint as a business. Here’s how we’re doing that:
Community and Colorado BBQ
Another important core value is that we pitch in to support the community that’s supporting us. We do this by providing the organizations we support with food or space to meet and sometimes holding the occasional fundraiser to benefit them. Below are some of the incredible organizations we work with and links to their donation pages if you’d like to show them some love.