The Denver Hospice – The Mask Project 2016
Auction Ends: Oct 9, 2016 10:00 PM MDT

Restaurants/Chefs

Edible Beats (Mask With Added Premium Item)

Item Number
278
Sold
105 USD to peighton
Number of Bids
5  -  Bid History

Item Description

We’re into organic. Food that is locally grown. Not just locally grown food but locally grown community. Not just organic food, organic design and organic people. But Edible Beats isn’t about buzzwords. We walk the talk. Since we launched in late 2008, Edible Beats concept group has grown four-restaurants strong — Root Down, Linger, Root Down DIA, and Ophelia’s — and is known for responsibly grown and sourced, innovatively simple, vegetable-forward menus. Whether it’s our wind-powered buildings, or our 4,000-square-foot gardens in the middle of the city that supply our restaurants’ veggies, we’re always looking for ways to keep it real. And people enjoy us. We’ve been noted beyond the local news — from New York Times reviews to Cooking Channel stardom. Google us, you’ll see. Each Edible Beats restaurant thrives on inspired, upcycled design from their original buildings’ past lives: be it an adult video library turned boudoir-style gastrobrothel, a 1950s gas station turned mid-century neighborhood staple, or a mortuary turned eclectic LoHi gem. We at Edible Beats speak fluent flavor, celebrate diversity, and bleed integrity: in both the stories that we tell and in food that we serve.

About the Mask Artist: Justin Cucci grew up in the restaurant business, immersed in the world of his family’s highly regarded Ye Waverly Inn, in Greenwich Village, NYC. He worked every position in that restaurant, from ages 12 to 27, and loved every minute of it. Over the next 10 years, he opened two successful restaurants in Key West, Florida. He moved to Denver in 2007, and decided he was going to risk it all to open Root Down and it worked! His goal is to create spaces where both culinary and design sophistication connect. We are a guest driven company, where hospitality is a dialogue we have with every guest. 

 

This is collaborative piece, between Justin and his daughter Ella. They lost their mother/grandmother eight years ago, and hospice was an invaluable part of her end of life process and helped us, as a family, find clarity and compassion in a time of grief. It was deeply important in that it opened up a conversation about death, something we never get coaching on. He and Ella made this mask together as a symbol of love to honor the many families that benefit from hospice. 

Item Special Note

Premium Item: $50.00 Gift Card to Root Down or Linger.