Community Table
Celebrating Longmont’s dining scene
Longmont Restaurant Week, running at participating establishments through Sunday, Sept. 27, is different this year. Of course it is.
Instead of $18.91 meals, as in...
Rare air
The last person I saw was the Klein Matterhorn lift operator, who told me he was shutting down the lifts due to wind and...
That’s a great idea, Charlie
The year: 1981. The
protagonist: Charlie Papazian, America’s homebrewing advocate. The setting: the
Great British Beer Festival in England.
“In those days, the closest thing to...
On trend
Every year, any number of publications proclaim the Next Big Thing in food. We label these things “food trends,” but really they’re just whimsical...
Boom or bust?
If you were in a Colorado grocery store over the last few weeks, you likely saw one of two odd things: rows of empty...
Que será, será
Boulder’s Il Pastaio — “the pasta maker” in Italian — has everything you could want in a red sauce joint: homemade long and short...
Colorado winemakers embrace harvest season amid myriad challenges
If this year were normal, we might be planning to head out to Palisade for the annual Colorado Mountain Winefest, a rip-roaring celebration of...
Time for tomatoes
It’s almost September, which means tomatoes are turning red. All the heat in June and July did wonders for the tomato plants in my...
From saddle to Sauternes
Will Frischkorn saw much as a professional cyclist, churning at 30 mph through Europe and North America’s best culinary and historic destinations in a...
Same old seeds?
While other segments of the local food industry suffered immensely from the pandemic in the last year, farmers, by and large, made out OK....
Snack time
The opening of Treat Snack House last week represented an achievement for the greater Longmont restaurant scene. And for Boulder County in general. That...
State of the food scene
Every week in this space, I share just a little bit of the long and interesting conversations I have with Boulder County’s chefs, restaurateurs,...
