Founder’s legacy lives on at Flagstaff House

BOULDER – Within hours after news broke in February about the death of iconic Boulder restaurateur Don Monette, the calls started coming in at his mountainside Flagstaff House.
Is the restaurant closing? Will the menu change?
Adam Monette, the grandson of the scenic inn’s founder, answered the queries with reassurance.
“I was able to give Don my commitment to Flagstaff House and make it the pinnacle of fine dining in Colorado, in the world,” he said. “That verbal commitment has us locked in for life.”
Don Monette, who founded the restaurant on the side of Flagstaff Mountain in 1971, ran it with the help…
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