About
LAUREN'S KITCHEN
About Chef Lauren
Custom Catering
About Storefront
The Storefront
Offering Grab n' Go & Catering Services
All Food is Pre-Prepared by Chef Lauren Daily, On-location
2-Serving Portions, ready to Reheat or Take Away
Mix n' Match Entrees with: Sides, Soups, Salads, Dips, Desserts
Quick Dine-In or Take To-Go
Dietary-Restrictive options always available including:
Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Vegetarian & Vegan options.
Lauren's Kitchen won the Best of Vail
Valley Readers Choice Award for Catering
Services 3 Years in a Row:
2020, 2021-22 and 2022-23!
Recyclable and Reusable Plastic Containers:
Bring back cleaned containers for a 5% Discount Off
your next in-store purchase.
Lauren's Kitchen is located in Edwards' Riverwalk,
between Lacy's and The Bookworm.
275 Main St. C-106
Edwards, CO 81632
Storefront:
970-446-6917
HOURS:
Monday - Friday 11a-6p*
NOW OPEN LATER FOR YOUR GRAB N' GO NEEDS!
Saturdays 12p-5p
Closed Sundays
*Hours are subject to change
Chef
Lauren McElroy
Chef, Owner
About Chef Lauren
Custom Catering
About Storefront
Lauren has always been a die-hard foodie. As a sixth-generation Texan, Lauren grew up on good ol' southern cooking with both of her grandmothers where the passion for food sparked an absolute LOVE for cooking.
Lauren has a Bachelors degree in Business Marketing and a "minor" in snowboarding from Colorado State University. After college, Lauren worked in insurance sales, real estate marketing, graphic design, and then as the VP of Marketing for a brand new pharmaceutical dispensing company out of Chicago. After 2 labor-intensive years of learning every aspect of marketing a pharmaceutical business, endless concerts and fine dining, Lauren left cloudy ChiLand for sunny, South Florida.
Once there, persuasion from her grandmother, led Lauren to enroll and graduate with an Associates in Culinary Arts degree from Keiser University. Culinary degree in-hand, Lauren went on to work hot line, pantry, sandwiches, deli, customer service, and catering jobs at both high-end resorts and gourmet markets.
After 5 years in always-summer Florida, Lauren returned to her "happy place": Vail, Colorado where she enjoys snowboarding, camping, white water rafting, & all sorts of other mountain town adventures.
Lauren loves creating new dishes and changing up the common comfort foods she grew up on by adding her personal twist. A fusion of old school comfort food recipes with innovative seasonings and fresh ingredients, mixed with a little Southern flare.
In the summer of 2014, Lauren started her own catering company, NewAmericanFoods.com based out of a shared location in Minturn, CO. Since then, she has moved into her current location at the NE corner of Edwards Riverwalk (between Lacy's & the Bookworm), where Lauren's Kitchen was born in October of 2018.