How Denise Vigil Turned An Historic Church into The Friar’s Fork Restaurant

Twenty-five-year industry vet Denise Vigil is no stranger to the restaurant challenges (long hours, high stress, lack of benefits). But turning church pews into banquette seating and a lectern into a hostess stand in a former decommissioned church in the tiny town of Alamosa, Colo., was a new one. Having been empty for years, the historic building needed a total overhaul to make it suitable for anything, let alone a restaurant,...