January 25, 2002

New owners at RedFish bring Big Easy, Southern hospitality to downtown Boulder diners

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BOULDER — Since it opened in 1997, RedFish New Orleans Brewhouse has always brought a bit of the Crescent City, the Big Easy, to Boulder. In the last six months, it has done that and a little more.

Last spring, Dale Katechis and partners bought the restaurant, which had been closed on Mardi Gras, ironically, because its liquor license had not been renewed. The new owners, Cajun Holding Inc., reopened RedFish about six months ago. Katechis, an Alabama boy and owner of Oskar Blues Grill and Brew in Lyons, has expanded the Southern menu, the musical menu and the down-home, mom-and-pop…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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