Q Can you give a preview of what you're planning for your upcoming remake of Cue, the Guthrie Theater's primary restaurant?

A The menu is going to be mostly based on sustainable seafood, although we'll have plenty of other options if you're not a seafood fan. We're going to have a raw bar element. We'll have chalkboards to describe and list the provenance of the seafood that we're bringing in, the fisherman's name or the name of the boat. That would be cool.

We'll do a remodel to give it a new look, to show that it's a new restaurant. It's such a big space and it can come off as kind of vast, so we're going to break up the room a bit and hopefully make it more inviting. There's a lot of blue and stainless steel in there, so we're going to add some warm colors through painting and reupholstering. This will all happen the first couple of days in July, and we'll reopen it as a new restaurant. We're still working on the new name. We're close, but it's not completely approved yet.

We've already switched the menu. It's not a preview of what we're going to be doing, but it's still good food. I'm really happy with the crew there. Erik Anderson [formerly of Porter & Frye] is there and Jim Christianson, one of my longtime sous chefs at La Belle Vie, is executive sous chef. Lorin Zinter, our general manager from La Belle Vie, is now general manager there. It's so great to have this group of people. I couldn't possibly be happier with the staffs we have at all the restaurants. They are huge contributors to why I got the award.

RICK NELSON