Father-son duo converting Lafayette Burger King to brewery/barbecue joint

LAFAYETTE —  Restaurant design firm Trapp Associates Ltd. in Boulder plans to open a barbecue restaurant and brewery in Lafayette early next year, repurposing a closed Burger King.

Uturn BBQ will be the first restaurant opened by the father-and-son team of Tim and Shem Trapp, though Trapp Associates has designed more than 350 restaurants/breweries throughout the United States, including local projects Fresh Thymes and the Walnut Brewery, and for national chains including Rock Bottom Restaurants, Gordon Biersch and Jim ’N Nicks BBQ.

The Trapps are remodeling the…