Good Taste
by Colin Wrenn
Hip to be square
When guests enter Red Tops Rendezvous, they are greeted by a hulking mural of the Fisher Building. From there, the walls are covered in...
The revamp
When longtime patrons saw The Hungry Toad shut down for three weeks, with promises of a new menu and a refurbished interior, there were...
A.M. OG
The top of the menu at Mateo reads: “It is around the table that friends understand best the warmth of being together.” It doesn’t...
Striking gold
Anyone who read this year’s Best of Boulder East County was sure to have noticed one name showing up time and time again. The...
By the bowl
Edwin Zoe was already a local legend. But now he’s also a James Beard semifinalist, having been nominated this year for Outstanding Restaurateur. Anyone...
‘The secret’s out’
Dagabi Tapas Bar is a family joint. It’s not uncommon to see tables filled with three generations of diners enjoying the restaurant’s blend of...
Our daily bread
Whenever dinner hit the table, it was always, ‘Mangia mangia, let’s eat guys,’” says Jeremiah Harvey, owner of the recently debuted Mangia Panino.
Harvey grew...
A family affair
“You got an extra cigarette?” asked Catherine Neckes. This was 2011, before she had permanently strained her back hauling 50 pound sacks of sugar...
A happy couple
When Chef Casey Taylor took the helm of the culinary program at Idaho Springs-based brewery Westbound and Down, the location already had a good...
Love makes all the difference
When Gitanjali Shrestha moved from Pokhara, Nepal, to Longmont in 2007, she wasn’t quite sure what she was going to do. Up until then,...
The main thing
Peter Waters knows keeping it simple works. He’s the managing partner at T/aco, but also runs Ruthie’s Boardwalk Social, which serves just shy of...
Community coffee
No one was happy to hear about the abrupt closure of Caffè Sole at the tail end of last year. Since opening in 1994, the...
