Pasta Jays

Jay Elowsky grew up in Bay City, Michigan. Restless and ready to explore life on the West Coast, he moved to Southern California and took a job washing dishes for his Aunt Kathy and Uncle Sonny, proprietors of Sonnys Pizza in San Clemente. After a year of hitting the books at CU Boulder, Jay realized the restaurant business was where his heart was. He returned to Uncle Sonnys kitchenlearning to cook and spending the next six years perfecting the family recipes that had been passed down to him by MaMa Genovese, whose grandmother was the cook for the first King of the United Countries of Italy, Victor Emanuel the Second. With dreams to open his own restaurant, Jay settled back in Boulder. In September of 1988, Jay and his Mom (Jean) and Dad (Lowell) opened the first Pasta Jays at 9th and Pearl. Now almost three decades laterbesides the Boulder eatery there are Pasta Jays in Moab, UT and Hays, KS. Proud of his culinary heritageJay enthusiastically states, Generations later we still...