Cuisine

A promising FATE for tavern food

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"Smoke gets in your food,” declared John, considered by many to be the dean of local food scribes. Indeed, our lunch courses at the recently opened FATE Brewing Company were adhering to a certain fire-seasoned theme. A rich aroma of smoke wafted off our chicken wing ...

Get in the zone

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When I was in high school, I participated in a summertime drama workshop that met in a studio above a San Francisco deli. We met in the afternoons, and one day I had gone to class without eating anything. Partway through the session, I became ravenously hungry while ...

’Tis the season

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I’d argue that autumn is a super season, at least when it comes to food and drink. What we eat and drink this time...

The Boulder Cork has aged well

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Settings into a venerable locale such as the Boulder Cork restaurant, one can’t but help wonder if the dapper sports coat-clad gentleman at the next table might be a regular who’s come here for decades. Perhaps a younger version of him showed up here in the ’70s, ...

School’s out for summer

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Boulder’s University Hill neighborhood has a reputation for being the students’ part of the city. After all, it’s located directly across Broadway from the University of Colorado Boulder, and the Hill’s home to many of the bars frequented by students. But what ...

A good representation

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There is a lot to like about Brooklyn Deli in Longmont. It imports many of its ingredients from New York or thereabouts. It accurately offers many of the classic sandwiches you’d find in a New York deli. It has a welcoming, East Coast sense of hospitality. It sells ...

Farm-to-table goes large-scale

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Pearl Street’s restaurant scene is well-known for its farm-to-table mentality, which centers on produce brought to restaurants from nearby farms to ensure freshness, while supporting the local farming community...

Boulder lands Cuban sandwich outpost

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I´m the first to admit that my familiarity with Cuban fare is somewhat limited, and I certainly claim no particular expertise regarding the sandwiches of this  island nation. Sure, I’ve enjoyed a Cuban meal or two in Miami, but I came away with the feeling that I was...

Turning Japanese

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It smells like stale vodka when you sniff it. Then it singes your throat with its flaming jet-fuel flavor, rendering your throat desiccated and...

Facelift

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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible,” said Frank Zappa in 1971, words that would seem to describe downtown Boulder over the last four decades. From the opening of the Pearl Street Mall in 1976 while Americans were continuing to flee inner cities...

Secrets at Sanitas

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We all enjoy being in on a good secret. I mean, if it’s a harmless, fun kind of secret, not the other kind. We all like knowing about the shortcut home, the secret menu item, the password, where the unmarked door will lead...

Try this week: Black Bean Burger @ Caffè Sole

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Caffè Sole has been doing great work during the pandemic, raising funds from the community in order to prepare and deliver 3,400 meals to...