Meet Kaal Bhairav of Downtown Longmont

Today we’d like to introduce you to Kaal Bhairav.

Hi Kaal Bhairav, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
The food is my story of a lonely journey across the continents, with which I am hoping that people find nourishment as well as a sense of comfort.

The journey across time and self discovery and meeting many different persons I have been and I have become and left behind in the process to be where I am today.

My food speaks of craftsmanship, balance, adventure and the idea of perhaps a home melded together in the varying flavors that resonate together and becoming a different kind of harmony and music on everyone’s taste-buds.

Ingredients are not the only elements that makes the products of Colorado Dumplings good, it’s the principle we operate on as well.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Yes and No.

It took several years of figuring out the limit of my own knowledge and imaginations besides crunching the numbers and making sense of it or being able to justify every decimal. It took more defining of what I am bringing to the table rather than what am I plating. Setting up my kitchen for the opening and the operation was absolutely exciting. I was happy, very happy. I was looking forward to it with a gusto.

Financial limitations is no strange a story, but most remarkable aspect is that most people find excitement and joy with the beginning of something akin of a dream, an idea, an aspiration coming to fruition after years of trying to make it come to life, but in my case the sudden appearance of acute panic attacks, anxiety, finding myself in very dark corners of my mind, depression.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I was born into a blacksmith clan, born with a hammer and a chisel instead of a silver spoon. Rudimentary practices of building tools and equipment out of metal. Something I really didn’t fit in yet was a part of industry until early 20s of my life. Then came a time I had to pivot to greater things.

A big slice of my early life, I invested in learning a language that wasn’t mine however my instinct had determined it to be one that is my own, English, a language something in my being declared vital for my existence.

I embarked into the world of music and performing arts as an admirer and an organizer of events, creating spaces for obscure artists and music. At some point, a renowned theater director proposed me to start a repertoire theatre company with him, which took me deeper into the world of literature and imagination and became even more entangled in those areas of humanity. I found myself getting seduced into art house short film making with the adaptations from the books that were epitome of human emotions.

Can you talk to us a bit about the role of luck?
Women. My whole life has been shaped by women. All and every women who have been a part of me, greater or lesser, shaped my life, my life’s trajectory and perhaps even my destiny; that includes my mother, my friends, my lovers, my wife, my dogs.

Pricing:

• Affordablity of food is a key element of what I offer

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.coloradodumplings.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coloradodumplings
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/167BAsNTAG

Image Credits
Kristina Rush, Jashmin Nakarmi