Restaurateur watches Tangerine bear fruit

LONGMONT — Orange. Tangerine orange.

It hits you even before you enter Tangerine, the new breakfast spot in downtown Longmont that opened in June. It’s the awning, the signage, the booths, and especially those big, round light fixtures that look like big tangerines.

“A local company made them for a third of the price of the Boulder ones,” laughed owner Alec Schuler. The Boulder ones are nicer — they were made in the U.K. — but you can’t tell the difference.”

The irony? “We do not carry any tangerines in the building,” Schuler said. “A…