Paul C Reilly grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley and has been working in kitchens since he was fourteen. Paul is the culinary director and proprietor of beast + bottle group managing award winning concepts in Denver, Colorado. 

 

Beast + bottle group began in 2013, and has since become Denver’s premier farm to table restaurant experience serving relentlessly local seasonal cuisine in downtown Denver. Coperta, opened in 2016, and celebrates the food and wine of Rome and southern Italy. His restaurants are no strangers to local and national accolades and have been featured in numerous top of the city lists. Paul also works as the consulting chef for the New Belgium Brewery sports pub at Denver International Airport.

 

Paul is an ambassador of the good food movement working closely with Boulder County Farmers Markets, Good Food 100, Slow Food Denver, and JBF Smart Catch. Paul cooked at the James Beard House in 2015 and was a featured chef at the James Beard Gala for Good in 2019.  He was a James Beard Foundation Scholarship Winner in 2012 and an alumnus of the James Beard Boot Camp for Policy and Change, three times over.