April 27, 2007

Chef Heap tinkers with Le Chantecler’s winning recipe

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NIWOT – Looking out over his popular – and packed – restaurant, Bradford Heap muses over the changes he’s contemplating.

He’s already revamped the menu of Le Chantecler, the renowned Niwot restaurant founded by Colorado celebrity chef Radek Cerny in 1999. And he’s in the process of changing the name to Colterra to reflect the shift away from Le Chantecler’s country French cuisine and toward a blend of southern French and northern Italian food, featuring locally sourced, seasonal ingredients.

“In Latin, ‘colo’ means cultivate and ‘terra’ means earth. So Colterra, to me, means cultivating the earth through using as few ingredients as…

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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