For much of its nearly two year existence, Miguel Alvarado-Lopez has been a fixture behind the scenes at Moonshot Tavern on NE 28th Ave.
“He started off as a dishwasher, and then we realized we didn’t really need a dishwasher and he ended up quitting once he got his hours cut,” Josh Love, a partner and bartender at the tavern, said. “But we made a promise to him that we’d bring him back in any way we could, and we were able to do that months later.”
Alvarado-Lopez returned as a cook—and quickly made himself an integral part of both the kitchen and the tavern’s culture…