Veteran restaurateurs team to improve menu at Rezzo

LAFAYETTE ? When Chad Sholders, owner of Rezzo restaurant in Lafayette, lost his original partner in the venture, he got help from two unlikely sources.

He enlisted James Mazzio, a chef who gained national recognition in 1999 when he was named one of Food and Wine magazine?s Best New Chefs for his work at Boulder?s now-defunct 15 Degrees, and Eric Lee, the former owner of Sweet Tomato, the restaurant that previously occupied Rezzo?s space.

Sholders opened Rezzo in June 2003 with a partner who was also his chef. In the fall of 2004, his partner left Colorado to pursue an…