Nibbles
Stocking up
When it comes to the whole gift-giving gig, we tend to overthink the solution to the perfect present. Instead of finding something unique for...
The very, very scary menu
Once upon a dark and stormy night last week, I was consumed by the thought that food is as much about fear as it...
Who drank Laura Palmer?
How !@#$% hot is it?
It’s stinkin’ hot. Boulder smells like heat, sweat and softening asphalt (plus the usual pervasive hint of cannabis) with...
The great Parkway Cafe now dishes dinner in East Boulder
EaBou is not your $100 steak kind of neighborhood. Located east of Foothills Parkway, north of Arapahoe, south of Valmont and west of 63rd,...
The Cure for retirement
Jim Smailer is a true restaurant legend. As the longest-serving chef in recent Boulder history, he cooked for an unheard-of four decades at the...
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...
A slice of home
For cousins Waris Yousifi, 23, and Yousof Kohistani, 25, the Afghani flatbread noni is not optional at meals.
“It’s compulsory. You must have this...
Why the cookie crumbles
It’s not just you. For once, it really is the altitude.
Food fries weirdly here, cookies spread out like pancakes, pies explode and some...
Putting on condiments
As a former dining critic, I don’t like to admit that there is one restaurant I like to visit for the ketchup. I dine...
From menudo to beet sugar rum
Bone broth was big in 2015 in Boulder — so popular it is even available on tap in multiple flavors. Personally, I’ll take my bone broth — animal bones boiled in water — in the traditional form of Jewish chicken soup, Japanese ramen and Vietnamese pho. Other hot ...
Selling Boulder’s taste buds
Dear Dale’s Pale Ale,
I’m breaking up with you!
I know we’ve been in “like” for years. You were always my go-to, easy-to-recommend local brew.
Then I...


















