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Chef Eve Natasha.
Eve Natasha is the founder and head chef of Stage Stop BBQ, the chef-driven BBQ chain operating four locations across Colorado Springs. She grew up on her family’s ranch at 6620 Old Stage Road — the same address as her flagship restaurant, The Cantina — where she learned to smoke brisket on a propane-tank smoker her father built in 2001.
Trained at Auguste Escoffier in Denver and a former line cook at one of the city’s downtown fine-dining rooms, Eve parked the first Stage Stop BBQ trailer outside Mash Mechanix Brewing in 2017. The Cantina opened in 2021, the permanent food cart at Urban Animal Beer Co’s Star Ranch taproom in 2023, and the Westside’s Old Colorado City stop in 2024. Manitou Springs, Pueblo, and Denver are next.
Eve was a 2024 finalist for the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef · Mountain region and is quoted in Bon Appétit’s 2025 “American BBQ Outside the South” piece.
Recent press.
"American BBQ Outside the South"
Chef Eve Natasha's brisket at Stage Stop in Colorado Springs may be the best ten miles outside any city in the mountain west.
Read the piece →"50 Best Restaurants in Colorado"
#11. The chef-driven BBQ chain quietly building a brewery-by-brewery empire in Colorado Springs.
Read the piece →"Chef Eve Natasha's Burnt-End Tacos Are Worth The Drive"
The Mash Mechanix truck pulls a queue from Denver on Saturdays. We see why.
Read the piece →"Cover Story: BBQ at the Brewery"
Eve has cracked something the rest of the city's food-truck scene is still trying to figure out.
Read the piece →Finalist · Best Chef Mountain
Chef Eve Natasha, Stage Stop BBQ — for her work elevating wood-smoked BBQ in a region that historically lacked it.
Read the piece →"Local Chef Lifts Brewery Industry"
Mash Mechanix says weekend revenue is up 30% since Stage Stop pulled up.
Read the piece →See all press mentions → — every outlet, every date, in one log.
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Custom imagery, an interview window, a quote on a specific topic, fact-checking — the press-only form routes straight to Eve. We respond within 1 hour during business hours, weekdays.