Cuisine

I’m not entirely sure why I hadn’t paid a visit to Longmont’s Tortugas in the last few years — in the late ’90s, I thought it was one of the best restaurants in the county. Combining a hospitable, homey, Key West feel with a menu of fresh seafood, prepared in the ...

Editor’s note: This is Clay Fong’s last restaurant review for Boulder Weekly...

When you travel, one of the first things you tell folks about your trip is how the food was. It’s just a simple way to engage your conversation partners in a talk about your trip, which we care about but don’t really want to hear about, and give them something to ...

Nelson Kugel, owner of the Gondolier, unrolls a blueprint under the hanging halogen lights in his restaurant’s new location at the Meadows Shopping Center. His finger hovers just above the diagram before he points out where the full-service bar, the private dining ...

Yo, America: Stop making beer worse...

Bread pudding conjures up sweet dessert memories for many people, but this homey dish has a savory side too. It’s called a strata, and you can even serve it for breakfast...

Pho soup has gone from an exotic rarity in Boulder County and environs to a common menu item. The truth is, some of it...

I offered my apologies to Oskar Blues back in March, when I made my first trip to the Tasty Weasel and Grill & Brew and learned there’s a lot more to Boulder County’s brewing bad boys than hop-forward beers like Dale’s and Deviant Dale’s...

So, in math, multiplying two negatives equals a positive. However, conventional wisdom says two wrongs don’t make a right. Given that we can’t use arbitrary precedent, how do we determine if combining two food trends is good or bad...

Notions about food change over four decades Earth Day’s 40th anniversary last month got me thinking about all the wacky notions advocated by the longhaired, tie-dyed, wire-rimmed youthful hipsters of the early ’70s. (Yes, I was among them.) You know, those wild...

After one of the roughest days in a while here at the office...

Botanically speaking, cannabis sativa (marijuana) and Humulus lupulus (hops) are close relatives. Both come from the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants, and both are...