Nibbles
Flatbread Earth
There is something soul-satisfying about grabbing bites of food with pieces of flatbread, whether it is using a warm corn tortilla to snag carnitas,...
Home of the homebrewed
Boulder has plenty of historic monuments. A new one in North Boulder Park honors the Red Zinger and Coors Classic bicycle races. A statue...
Field of greens
If you fry it right, the fried chicken people will most definitely come. These folks — constantly disappointed by restaurant fried chicken — will...
Empty aprons
Boulder is experiencing a dire shortage of cooks and other restaurant workers. Ask any chef or restaurant owner in town about their biggest challenges...
Take out minus the waste
"This is ridiculous!”
We’ve said it to ourselves more than once as we tore into our delicious, delivered dinner. Our pumpkin curry with chicken is...
Saving Thanksgiving
If you are hosting Thanksgiving at your house today, complete with “Alice’s Restaurant” playing in the background, you probably won’t read this until well...
Open & Shuttered
Dear Future Food History Researcher,
As the year 2020 arrived, we heard that Ralphie’s Bar and Grill, which only opened in February, would close by...
Scratch and bites
I spied some fake food news recently as I walked down the frozen food aisle, progressively triggering the motion detectors and illuminating the products inside...
The sounds of cooking
I was cleaning the electric slicing machine when the mariachi music was cranked up. The device had just been used to thinly slice 25...
Flavor versus fire
The last thing the food world needs is another hot sauce. Endless rows of identical tall bottles with ominous-sounding names already line the shelves.
The...
The greater pumpkin
Canned pumpkin is a lot like canned music.
Both require old-fashioned devices to use, and both products are highly over-processed. You need tinny loudspeakers and...
‘Do you have a reser-vaccination?’
Here’s the thing:
If you want to dine inside most Boulder restaurants this fall and winter, you should get the COVID vaccine ASAP.
While the State,...