Goodbye Arcana, Hello Supermoon
The top Boulder restaurant closed in late January to be transformed into a new, Asian-inspired restaurant. Supermoon will start serving in May.Daliah Singer •
March 5, 2021
Chef
Samuel McCandless’ favorite person to cook for is his 10-year-old daughter. She’s a fan of dumplings, so he fashioned a “dumpling station” in his old apartment and made fresh ones as she stood next to him, waiting to dig in.
Dumplings were certainly different than the food he was cooking at Arcana, a top Boulder restaurant focused on American heritage cuisine. For months, McCandless and Arcana co-owner
Elliott Toan had been toying with the idea of a new concept, something that captured the cooking that makes them happy as well as the joy and youthfulness parenthood has brought out in both of them. Then the pandemic hit. They realized it was the right time to close one chapter and open another, so in January, Arcana closed its doors. When the restaurant on Walnut Street reopens in May it will be entirely new and called: