During their eight-year journey together, Chef Guard developed a distinct multi-cultural style that would lead him to executive chef positions all over the world; from acclaimed New York hotspot Tao and Doc Cheng’s in Singapore to Richard Sandoval’s award-winning Latin-Asian fusion restaurant Zengo and Denver’s comfort food concept, nine75.
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In May of 2009, after two years of development, Chef Guard opened TAG on Larimer Square in the bustling LoDo District of downtown Denver. A culmination of a life-long dream, TAG espouses Guard’s unique vision of Continental Social Food, a combination of his Hawaiian roots, his Pan-Asian expertise and fresh, local Colorado ingredients. “To me, America is so diverse and our lives have become built around where we eat and who we are eating with,” explains Guard of the restaurant’s concept. “I want TAG to be a place where people can come to eat, to have fun, to share and learn.”
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In the Spring of 2011, Guard and his team have expanded their culinary reach with two new restaurants; TAG | RAW BAR, a concept the chef describes as the manipulation of seasonal ingredients from their rawest form and Madison Street, a neighborhood restaurant located in Congress Park.