Community Table
Spices of the corn
When people say they like pumpkin spice-flavored foods, what they mean is they like pumpkin pie-flavored foods. The difference between spice and pie being...
Le French Café’s Agnes and Quentin Garrigou on casual French food
Agnes and Quentin Garrigou, the husband-wife owners of Boulder’s Le French Café, grew up around food. For, they are French.
“Food is so important,” Agnes...
To bake the perfect croissant
You’ve had a croissant. When you had it, though, did you really consider it? Did you consider how it is that it’s lighter than...
Steakhouse No. 316 is new Boulder home for Aspen restaurateurs
My friend had a postcard that said, ‘Come to Aspen,’ and I said, ‘Well, OK,’” says Craig Cordts-Pearce.
Cordts-Pearce had nothing to lose. After working...
Tiki comes to Boulder
Consider the piña colada. An iconic tropical treat composed of cream of coconut, rum, pineapple juice and pulverized ice, usually served with a fruit...
The joy of failure, with Black Cat’s Eric Skokan
Eric Skokan had no idea how difficult it would be to grow a carrot.
“Literally something as granular as a carrot seed causes so many...
Chef Kyle Mendenhall on music and cooking
Kyle Mendenhall — the chef who helped launched The Kitchen’s national enterprise, and whose new restaurant, Arcana, was recently billed by the New York...
Satisfaction guaranteed
The seed of what would become Organic Sandwich Company was sewn in the wilds of Michigan, where Marcy Miller and her three sibling spent their...
Plants, elevated
When in Paris, I had the chance to dine at Chef Alain Passard’s L’Arpege, an internationally renowned restaurant that at the time (2015) was...
Babettes’ Steve Scott on grain sourcing, rising rents and baking beautiful...
Steve Scott is not your typical artisanal baker. After nearly two decades baking in shops from California to Colorado, the former semi-pro cyclist opened...
Changing reservations
If you’ve ever made a reservation at a Boulder County restaurant, chances are you did so through OpenTable. A long list of restaurants in...
Cuckoo for cocoa nog
When the weather turns cold, we turn to hot cocoa. Like the vanishing sun, that steaming cup is a source of warmth and energy,...
