Donald Burns talks about his dad's Mexican cooking as his favorite meal ever, then recalls an exceptional Mediterranean dinner in Denver. He and a friend discuss the Denver and Scottsdale restaurant scenes and upcoming events: a two-day boot camp for Tier 2 members and a three-day Restaurant Success Summit.
Questions this video answers
Donald Burns
2026-01-26
Ashkara (a Mediterranean restaurant in Denver)
Tier 2 members
Two days
What would you say is like the absolute best meal you ever had?
My family has some good cooks.
Really?
Oh, yeah. I come from a Mexican family. Who's the best cook.
In your family?
My dad.
All right.
He makes some excellent Mexican food, which is like my ultimate comfort. But like here in Denver, I remember me and my husband, we went to Ashkara here in Denver and they had. It's a. It's a Mediterranean restaurant.
One up.
Best meals I've ever had.
Denver has some really good restaurants.
We've got a good food scene here.
Yeah, they got a really good. Denver has a really good food scene. So Scottsdale has a really good food scene.
You do? It's been fun to explore there too.
Yeah. So like every year we have a couple live events in Scottsdale that Tier 2 members are invited to come to. We have like a restaurant owner boot camp, which is a two day event where we go over like the eight driving force to restaurant success. And then every August we have our big three day restaurant success summit where everyone comes in. We have like five speakers. It's three days. Just crazy. Lots of fun, lots of learning, lots of writing, lots of eating. This gets crazy. Yeah.
