Culinary Connections

Social Good Through Good Food.

Colorado Springs, CO

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January 24th, 2026

First Ever Dine-In Experience!

Featuring Afghan-Syrian Fusion Meals

Choose your meal & seating time • Order online • Dine with us in person

Alongside the Dine-In experience, guests can visit our Bazaar, where past refugee women chefs sell handmade foods, jewelry, and other goods.

How This Dine-In Experience Works

Choose Your Time Slot

We offer two dine-in seating time slots:

4:30 PM

5:30 PM

Choose Your Meal Type

The menu is the same for both time slots — only the seating time is different.

Regular Afghan-Syrian Fusion Meal

Vegetarian Afghan-Syrian Fusion Meal

Come Dine With Us

Enjoy your meal on-site at

420 N Nevada Ave, Colorado Springs

Explore the Bazaar

Before or after you dine, guests are invited to explore our ladies’ Bazaar—a small market featuring handmade goods and foods sold by our refugee women chefs who have participated in past cook days.

The Bazaar offers a chance to meet the women, learn their stories, and support their entrepreneurial journeys beyond the kitchen. All of the women selling items have previously cooked for Culinary Connections.

Dine • Shop • Connect

Our January Menu!

featuring

Afghan-Syrian Fusion Meals

Regular Meal – $25

Kurat Jaj (Syrian Chicken Meatballs in Tomato Sauce with Lamb Flavoring - Main Dish), Butternut Squash Borani (Afghan Butternut Squash Curry), Afghan Saffron Rice, Syrian Side Salad, Afghan Naan and Syrian Harissa Cake

Vegetarian Meal – $25

Mjedera (Syrian Lentils and Bulgar - Main Dish), Butternut Squash Borani (Afghan Butternut Squash Curry), Afghan Saffron Rice, Syrian Side Salad, Afghan Naan and Syrian Harissa Cake

Syrian Side Salad

Afghan Butternut Squash Borani

Afghan Naan

Afghan Saffron Rice

Syrian Harissa Cake

Order Here!

Click Add to Cart, Scroll to Top of Screen and Click the Basket in the Right-hand Corner to Check-out.

*Click on the text of the meal option to view ingredients

5:30 Time Slot: Regular Afghan-Syrian Fusion Meal

$25.00

4:30 Time Slot: Regular Afghan-Syrian Fusion Meal

$25.00

4:30 Time Slot: Vegetarian Afghan-Syrian Fusion Meal

$25.00

5:30 Time Slot: Vegetarian Afghan-Syrian Fusion Meal

$25.00

A new kind of community.

Refugee-status chefs prepare traditional meals… you experience new cultures.

Every meal supports job training, certification, and fair wages for our chefs.

Each purchase builds understanding, creates opportunity, and invests in a more connected Colorado Springs.

Purchase Meal Here

Culinary Connections is a collective effort.

Built by a team of organizations with deep roots in refugee resettlement, social impact, and community outreach, we combine experience to create opportunities where food and culture bring people together.

This program supports newcomer chefs, promotes economic opportunity, and fosters a stronger, more connected community.

Social good through good food.

Culinary Connections is a platform for women to share their culture with their new communities- while also supporting their families.

Your purchase supports newcomers to the Pikes Peak region, including these Haitian families:

A is from Les Cayes, Haiti. She has been living in the United States for 1 year and 10 months. She works at Amazon. Her parents have 4 children, and she is the third. She is a makeup artist, she does hair, and she is also a nail technician, and she would love to get her licenses to work in that field; it's her dream.

G is Haitian and has been living in America since 2023. She has 2 children, a daughter and a son. She lives here with her daughter. She is in the 3rd year of school. She is studying cosmetology. She is a businesswoman in the cosmetics business.

Born in Bainet, Haiti, M is a proud mother of two and a passionate ambassador of Haitian cuisine. A graduate of culinary school in 2005, she honors her homeland by creating authentic dishes such as griot, pikliz, soup joumou, and rice with djon djon, adding her own creative touch to each plate. Since arriving in the United States 10 months ago, M shares her love of Haitian culture and flavors through her cooking, bringing warmth, family traditions, and the true spirit of Haiti to every meal.

About the Collective

Culinary Connections empowers newly arrived refugee and immigrant women by facilitating food handling certification, developing fundamental business skills and providing paid opportunities to share their culinary heritage. Through Culinary Connections, we foster cross-cultural understanding, build meaningful connections, and create pathways toward economic independence for women.
We envision a community where food is more than nourishment—it’s a bridge between cultures. By supporting immigrant and refugee chefs, we strive to create sustainable opportunities, celebrate heritage, and strengthen connections between neighbors through shared meals.
Culinary Connections is a collaborative effort between community organizations in the Pikes Peak region to support women of incredible culinary talents through the sharing of traditional dishes from their cultures.