So you've made it to Crested Butte & found the Secret Stash. Good job! Now that you're here, kick back, relax & chill out. Order yourself a fancy cocktail or a frozen specialty drink. Mingle with the locals & experience our pace of life & what we call CB time. You are far away from the hustle & bustle of fast food America. Dining at the Stash is an experience for all the senses, one to be enjoyed to the fullest. We're not trying to get you in and out as quickly as possible. We're trying to create a truly memorable dining experience for you, one that stay with you forever.

Our dough is made from scratch daily, and every pizza is hand tossed at the time it's ordered. We use only the finest meats and fresh vegetables, herbs and spices. The love that we put into each pizza will be evident when you take your first bite. Exceptional quality can not be rushed or hurried. Your pizza will be a unique creation that you will savor. So relax, soak in the atmosphere & make yourself at home.

Our chef & co-owner, Jeff Graceffa, grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a graduate of the New England Culinary Insitute in Mont Pelier, Vermont. He developed a love for the Rocky Mountains of Colorado during a seven year ski bummin stint in Alta, Utah, and Vail & Beaver Creek, Colorado, where he completed his internship & learned the pizza business. Beano's Cabin & Tramonti (Beaver Creek) and Pazzo's Pizza (Vail) are where he fine tuned his art & discovered that his loves of pizza & skiing can coexist and flourish together.

Kyleena, Jeff's wife and partner, grew up in Williamsville, New York. At the age of nineteen she traveled to Italy to meet her relatives, who own a restaurant in Sicily. That's when the notion of owning her own restaurant came about. After graduating from the University of Buffalo, Kyleena grabbed a backpack and, over the course of the next eight years, traveled to over 62 countries & islands in search of all that would someday shape her own establishment. Kyleena also spent time living in Vail, where she was learning everything she could about running a restaurant. After spending winters in Vail, working at Sweet Basil & the Game Creek Club, summers in the Hamptons of New York working at Pino Luango's Sapore Di Mare, and time in Lake Tahoe, California, she felt she had acquired the knowledge she needed to open her own restaurant. She met Jeff in Vail where, after tasting his pizza, she fell in love and decided that the two needed to join forces.

Kyleena dragged Jeff back to New York, close to her friends and family, and soon after they opened the Clarence Center Coffee Company & Cafe in August of 1998. The cafe is decorated in the same decor as the Stash and is set in an 1800's Farmhouse. The cafe has been open for 6 years and has been a huge success. It has recieved much press, including an aricle in the New York Times. If ever you're in the area of Clarence Center, New York, please stop by and check it out. Tell them Ky sent you.

Living in the flat lands of New York for five years took its toll on Jeff (once a ski bum, always a ski bum). Feet of lake effect snow is useless without mountains to play on. The Rockies were calling him back. The two ventured back to Colorado in January, 2002, in search of the perfect location for their restaurant. Jeff had shown Kyleena Crested Butte a year prior but is seemed impossible to break into such a unique little town. Still they loved it and it was never far from their minds. After driving around to and experiencing all of the Colorado ski towns, nothing impressed them like the Butte. CB is where it had to be. They thus decided to take the gamble of their lives. Ky and Jeff went back to New York and, though everyone there thought they were crazy, loaded up a 17 foot truck with all their belongings & headed out to the wild west. They didn't know a single person when they came to Crested Butte, but they unloaded that truck and by themselves created The Secret Stash. On April 10 th, 2002 The Secret Stash was open for business. Jeff & Kyleena came to Crested Butte for the same reasons you did. They believe, "The possibility of having dreams come true is what makes life interesting." -The Alchemist

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