Northern Arizona’s Mountain Living Magazine, June 2020
Written by Gail G. Collins
After building a successful brand nut butter brand FBOMB, husband and wife duo Ross and Kara Taylor shifted gears to open their first restaurant , The REAL Kitchen. Expanding on their healthy, high fat snack business, The REAL Kitchen was opened to create clean, quality meals for busy families like themselves. The soft opening, which tested the a la carte menu, had been a happy event. But the restaurant opened its door just five days before Flagstaff’s city-wide shutdown in March to slow the spread of COVID-19, leaving the savvy small business owners a bit blindsided.
“No one expected that, and we are wholly invested—we don’t have financial backers,” Ross explained.
The pandemic instead led the Taylors to focus on one of their secondary goals to keep the restaurant afloat.
“We had planned all along to do heat-at-home meals,” Kara said; it just came into play sooner than they had anticipated.
The restaurant’s heat-at-home meals come as family style dishes, like beef stroganoff, smoky molasses pork tenderloin or custom choices with an array of sides, like quinoa and a solid selection of drinks. The meals also offer a wide selection of drinks from chardonnay and ginger beer to bubbly waters and kombucha.
The benefits in picking up dinner from The REAL Kitchen are convenience of preparation—flash-thawing flat pack boil-in-bags that go to the table in 30 minutes or less—and quality food options with minimal additives and processing. As their Website suggests: Don’t compromise, order online.
“We’re trying to offer value meals for the checkbook squeezed,” Kara said, but there is no skimping on ingredients.
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