Cuisine
Local tastes available for Thanksgiving
Although most people celebrate Thanksgiving at home with family and friends, many local restaurants are concocting Thanksgiving feasts for those in need of a sound holiday meal. The Cork, Greenbriar Inn and Peaceful Valley Ranch have unique Thanksgiving menus and ...
Try this week: Toffee apple crunch, spicy pig, and more
Toffee Apple Crunch
Tungsten Toffee, Available throughout Boulder County, tungstentoffee.com
The family behind Nederland’s Tungsten Toffee never intended to make candy. But when kids Nick, Norah and...
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...
CBD with those fries?
In Boulder, it’s in your cocktail. Your sourdough brioche bun is glazed with it in Louisville. It’s on your Lucky Charms in Arvada and...
Mary’s is not just for cyclists
It was a blowout day. And I mean that quite literally, as friend Keith’s front bicycle tire suddenly popped with a thunderous bang. Taking quick evasive action, I swerved around him as he managed to straighten out his trajectory and keep his bike upright. Fortunately...
Taste of the week: S’mores soar with local bean-to-bar chocolate
From Mallomars to Moon Pies to cannabis edibles, we love the flavor fusion that is s’mores. The easiest way to upgrade that experience is...
Out there
There is no better conversation about stuffed mountain lions than the conversation about stuffed mountain lions you have at Vern’s. If you’re headed north, it might be your first of many dining conversations about taxidermy; if you’re headed back to Boulder County, ...
Cultivating community
On July 28-29 world travelers and local lovers of exotic tastes will once again descend upon the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse for the 2012 Rocky Mountain Tea Festival. Before gathering around in celebration of the humble leaf, it is appropriate to acknowledge the local ...
Back to food school
I spent most of the past year working as a prep cook for a Boulder caterer. When I walked into the kitchen I was no...
D-Day at The Post Brewing Company
This is what it looks like seven hours before go time,” my guide tells me, gesturing at the gathered chaos. “It may still look like this in six...
Beyond Taco Tuesday
If you enjoyed a chicken mole taco on National Taco Day, raise a glass of mezcal to an unlikely hero. If you’ve “discovered” or...
Try this: Chorizo and Polenta Special @ The Parkway Cafe
There are few things as reliably great in the Boulder County food scene as weekend breakfast specials at The Parkway Cafe. (There are few...