Cuisine
Profiles in brew: Brandon and Lisa Boldt of Primitive Beer
We want to bring it back to the land,” Lisa Boldt of Primitive Beer says. “Bring it back to being creative, being fulfilled in...
Rain or shine
The Hungry Toad was built for rainy days. It makes for a cozy pint when you can sit in the corner and watch the wind beat rain into the windows with wooden jambs. The fixtures are natural, from the exposed brick wall to the leather bar chairs to the wooden tabletops...
New in brew: 4 Noses Brewing Co.
Goodbye 2017. Long live 2018 and all the brew it’s bound to bring. Especially the ones from 4 Noses Brewing Company — so named...
The tart cherry blues
It is cherry season, and while everyone else is feasting on Colorado bing cherries, I’m hunting for Montmorency cherries, one of the best foods...
More than meets the eye
It was one of those hot days where meek little spouses feel the edge of the carving knife and study their partner’s neck. Then they think better of it and quickly return to dicing arugula for salad. But I wasn’t thinking about Farmer’s Market greens and severed ...
Hacking the new apple
I grew up right next door to Johnny Appleseed.
Admittedly it was several hundred years apart, but my Massachusetts hometown, Fitchburg, was right next to...
Try this week: Sauerbraten, wings and more
Sauerbraten
Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder,
bohemianbiergarten.com
German food is made for the winter. Hearty roasts and sausages, pungent cabbage and sauerkraut, liters of beer — it...
Try this week: Mici Handcrafted Italian, Community, and more
Penne Cortonese
Mici Handcrafted Italian, 535 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, miciitalian.com
Lafayette’s outpost of Mici Handcrafted Italian serves a lineup of pizza, pasta, salads, calzones...
New in brew: IPAs from Oskar Blues and Crystal Springs
What is your favorite American-style India pale ale? West Coast IPA: clear as a bell and bracingly bitter with aromas of pine and flavors...
Old favorites at the new Pinyon
When they see a name like The Pinyon, Pearl Street passersby might mistake this newly opened venue for a place that serves Southwestern cuisine or, if one is a language scholar, a place to transcribe Chinese characters. Neither of these descriptions is entirely ...
In need of a warm up
Boulder’s sunshine is legendary. Which makes its cloudy days hit that much harder. And when they do, Boulder’s wide variety of salads and smoothies just won’t cut it. Grey skies and plunging barometers demand comfort food...
Drink what you love — and what you don’t
Brewery taprooms are one of the very few places — dentists’ offices being the other I can think of — where people often ask for things they won’t like...

















