ABOUT US

Jessica Baumgart

Co-Owner & Founder

Jessica is a world traveler and passionate foodie. She’s taken food tours everywhere from Singapore to South Africa. Prior to starting the food tour, she worked as a cooking class instructor and honed her fresh pasta skills over a summer living with a chef and her family in Tuscany.

Jess founded Delicious Denver Food Tours as a way to introduce visitors and locals to her city’s incredible food scene.

Nate Baumgart

Co-Owner

Nate hails from Chicago and has spent over a decade in restaurants, live events and corporate team building. He’s visited over 30 countries and done food tours on 5 continents with his wife/business partner.

In his free time, he loves to cook, hang with his wife and daughters and perform improv comedy, which he has been doing for over 20 years.

Anne Demko

Food Tour Guide

Anne is a CO native with deep family roots in the state. Her mother’s family comes from the San Luis Valley with a strong Mestizo heritage, while her father’s family were among the early miners/homesteaders in Clear Creek County.

She grew up attending Denver Public Schools and earned a graduate degree from the University of Northern Colorado. Today she shares her love of CO by guiding visitors into the Rocky Mountains and leading walking tours through Denver’s historic neighborhoods.

Austin Shrader

Food Tour Guide

Austin hails from a small Kansas town but has called Colorado home since 1998.

From the age of 14, he has worked in the front and back of restaurants of all styles.

As a professional tour guide, Austin has led thousands of tourists all over the city and state. As a guide for Delicious Denver Food Tours, Austin has the chance to combine his love of food, tourism and customer service.

Barry Klassen

Food Tour Guide

Barry feels like he was destined to call Denver his home after living in the heat and humidity of Tampa (where he grew up) and Austin. He and his wife of 25+ years, Susan, moved to Denver follow their youngest son who is a Senior at CU Boulder. They claim to have eaten at every single restaurant in town throughout the pandemic.

Barry is a huge baseball fan and an avid golfer. He loves Tampa sports (especially the Buccaneers), has two adult sons who he loves traveling with, and is passionate about discovering local restaurants all across the U.S.

Eva Magaña

Food Tour Guide

Eva is from Texas and moved to the Denver area with her husband Brandon in 2019. In her free time she patronizes local establishments, reads, plays board games, or is in the mountains hiking trails and camping. 

She has experience working for restaurants and breweries and loves to explore a new area by getting to know their culture which is often highlighted by the food scene. She’s excited and eager to show you around Denver and help you fall in love with the city.

Dan Ennion

Food Tour Guide

Daniel is in the midst of a long term love affair with Denver. He is a storyteller, improviser, history nerd, coffee snob, fine diner, and mountain man. He hails from Boston where he grew up on Italian and seafood. Developed a refined opinion of pizza and hot dogs, living in Chicago. Now a local Coloradan where all foods meet and must be tried.

When he’s not hosting your food tour, you’ll find him exploring the mountains around Denver with his dog, Koko. Headed out of the city? He knows the best places to eat in all of Colorado’s mountain towns.

D’Lina Bilano

Food Tour Guide

While growing up, D’Lina spent her summers traveling to CO with her family
and working at various mountain lodges and resorts, where she fell in love with the mountains and the art of hospitality.

After 15 years in Denver and 25 years of cooking, serving, and leading in the restaurant industry, D’Lina is excited to share her passion for the city’s history, food, art, and music.

When she’s not exploring new restaurants, she enjoys cooking for family and friends, crafting, writing music, and spending time in the garden with her cat, Flint Eastwood.

Forrest Hendricks

Food Tour Guide

Forrest has been living and eating in Colorado since 2016.

Hailing from rural Pennsylvania, he spent his 20s working in specialty grocery stores and the last few years guiding tours at a Denver whiskey distillery.

Forrest is enthusiastic about Denver’s vibrant art and music scene and can usually be found riding his bicycle around Denver enjoying all the city has to offer. 

Hans Thompson

Food Tour Guide

Hans is originally from Arizona, where he worked in various restaurant kitchens while attending the University of Arizona.

After graduating and spending two years teaching English in Japan, he relocated to Colorado in 2005 and immediately recognized the potential of the growing food scene in Denver.

He has traveled extensively throughout the USA, Europe, and Asia, eating his way across three continents. His biggest passions in life are eating delicious foods and knowing stuff, the ideal combination for a food tour guide.

Michael DeGano

Food Tour Guide

Michael has created a career in hospitality and loves all things food and beverage related. When he isn’t connecting with his restaurant teams, you’ll find him dining and drinking in Denver’s best restaurants and bars. Michael has called Denver home for the past 8 years but grew up in New Jersey with an Italian American family that instilled his passion for food, culture and entertaining.

Michael enjoys traveling and exploring the food scenes and culture of the cities and countries he explores. His years in hospitality have prepared him to be a food tour guide as he enjoys connecting with people and talking Denver with just about anyone he meets.

Zach Cross

Food Tour Guide

Zach Cross is a Denver native who has lived in city for 37 years. He might be the only native who does not ski or snowboard, but that’s only because he prefers the mountains in the Spring and Summer for backpacking, camping, river rafting and hiking.

When Zach’s in town, you can find him working at various restaurants as a chef or enjoying the incredible local craft beer scene in all its glory.

He considers himself to be the unofficial mayor of Denver and can’t wait to share his love of this incredible city with you.