Monette, founder of Boulder’s Flagstaff House, dead at 85
BOULDER – Don Monette, whose mountainside Flagstaff House commands sweeping views of Boulder below, died Tuesday four days before his 86th birthday.
Monette founded the restaurant on the side of Flagstaff Mountain on Nov. 1, 1971, and, with help from wife Carole and sons Mark and Scott, developed it into an icon that earned global acclaim and has won countless awards for food and wine.
Mark and Scott are “my business partners and my best friends,” Monette told The Denver Post in 2005, “and they’re the reason I can take days off.”
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