Editor’s note: To answer the Vail Daily’s Meet Your Chef questionnaire, email Assistant Editor Ross Leonhart (rleonhart@vaildaily.com) or Arts & Entertainment Editor Casey Russell (crussell@vaildaily.com). Like many people living in the valley, the mountains of Colorado lured chef Alex Rejonis here, but he’s found himself happily working creekside in Vail Village at Up the Creek . 1. How long have you lived in the valley and what brought you here? I have lived in the valley since 2013, and snowboarding is what brought me to Vail. 2. Where did your passion for cooking come from? My passion for cooking came from a childhood friend’s family in South Carolina. Their dad owned a restaurant and I would go there to hang out and learn from their dad and the chef about cooking. That is when my passion for cooking started.