I last caught up with Wes Isbutt, owner of West Side Tavern in Longmont, in August 2025 for our Indulgences issue. Wes—a four-time restaurant owner with 26 years of experience from living in Las Vegas—is full of anecdotes and insights. So if anyone has an idea of “the Taste of the Month,” it’s him.
When we sit down together, this time on an unusually warm night in January, I ask him what’s been going on. He grins at me.
“With the world, with West Side Tavern, with food?”…