- Date Of Birth: August 9, 1925
- Date Of Death: November 7, 2018
- State: Colorado
The iconic restaurateur Pierre Wolfe died peacefully in his home surrounded by his loving family on November 7, 2018. Pierre was born of French parentage in Berlin, Germany on August 9, 1925. During the rise of Hitler, Wolfe, at the age of 16, joined the Free French Forces and served with the British Eighth Army in North Africa and the Middle East.
After the war, Wolfe worked on a British cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea before following his sister Suzanne Joshel, to Denver in 1950. Pierre’s first job was in the kitchen of the Brown Palace Hotel, working his way up to sous-chef. In 1952 Wolfe became the chef and ultimately the owner of The Patio Restaurant in Littleton.
During Wolfe’s Patio days he met his future wife (of 58 years), Jean, at the Elitch Gardens summer theater. He began dating the Denver school teacher, and they were married in 1960 at his sister’s Hilltop home. They have two children, Karen and Ron.
The same year he was married, Wolfe opened the Quorum Restaurant in Capitol Hill. Throughout three decades, the Quorum was ranked among the best restaurants in Denver. Travel Holiday Magazine cited it for excellence for 25 consecutive years.
