Our Story

While we try not to take ourselves too seriously (after all, we're just a coupla guys who like to cook), we are very serious about the food we make.

Coupla Guys Foods was started by Joe Rowley, Roy Welland, & Richard Kimmel in 2002. When we started out, we had no specific training or educational credentials in food preparation. However, we've always enjoyed cooking great food and drinking good wine and spirits. At the time, none of us had ever owned a restaurant, waited tables, bussed dishes, or tended bar. Coincidentally, Roy now owns, along with other brilliant foodies, a couple of the best restaurants in the country: Cru (one of Manhattan's finest) and Chicago's Alinea (named one of the three best restaurants in the United States). Although we're largely self-taught, we are nevertheless well studied, well traveled, and well practiced. We've been studying food and wine for about 15 years in a serious, lifestyle kind of way. We experiment with recipes endlessly and discuss and argue about food combinations, wine matches, and cooking techniques. And we have a great, raucous time doing it. Finally, and frankly, we like women. This is another reason why we do what we do, because, with absolutely no statistical data to back this up, we've noticed women love it when guys cook well. While we try not to take ourselves too seriously (after all, we're just a coupla guys who like to cook), we are very serious about the food we make.