In her career, Cate Hughes has worked in and opened several restaurants, bars, and food businesses — as a consultant for San Diego’s Little Italy Food Hall, as a sommelier for places like San Francisco’s A16, leading the operations and front-of-house hiring at Michelin-starred Jeune et Jolie. In that time, she’s pulled experiences from a number of different culinary worlds, from specialty markets to fine dining, but she’s always wanted to open something that sort of incorporates it all, a sort of one-stop shop for good, unpretentious food.
That was the impetus for her creating Rotigo, set to open in the former Hem 23 space in Northwest Portland
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