Cuisine
A Cup of Peace offers asylum for the west side
A Cup of Peace doesn’t look like much from the outside. A plain storefront in an unglamorous lot on the side of the less-distinguished end of Arapahoe. The best thing it has going for it is a big vinyl sign advertising budget Korean lunch specials within like some ...
Leenie’s Southern Cafe is a bit more cafe than Southern
Claiming regional or ethnic credibility at a restaurant not located in that region can be a dubious prospect. Sometimes it’s a genuine transplant bringing the recipes of their youth and culture to the uninitiated hinterlands; sometimes it’s just run by someone who ...
Desserts on the move
The food truck landscape has rapidly been expanding in Boulder, offering a variety of colorful and inventive mobile food concepts, each with its own unique challenges. Especially for those just offering desserts on wheels...
Give me home fries or give me death
Boulder Weekly last visited the North Boulder Cafe in 2009. And it’s not hard to understand how we forgot about it. Tucked into a nondescript shopping center on the edge of town, the North Boulder Cafe isn’t really on the way to anywhere, and its signage is pretty ...
Chipotle gets ‘Farmed and Dangerous’
From their push to incorporate natural and GMO-free food into the menus of national chains to their recent forays into fancifying pizza, Chipotle has always marched to its own beat...
Where to drink the love away
Famed Colorado yahoo Mojo Nixon once sang, “Everybody knows that beer ain’t drinkin’.” Apparently the folks at downtown Boulder’s West Flanders Brewing Company agree a bit, as they will be launching a new brunch series in which the beer is there for altogether ...
BIFF: Dinner and a show
The Boulder International Film Festival launched in 2005, going from zero to destination with well-curated lineups, visiting stars and generally well-run shindigs...
Boulder restaurant Zeal flaunts enthusiasm
One by one, the nations participating in the Winter Olympics in Sochi strolled past the cameras, waving flags and led by pretty women wearing go-go boots and enormous, garish metal and plastic cages. Poor Tajikistan only had one athlete to boast of...
Nothing says love quite like chocolate
It’s that time of year again, when you cannot sidestep all of the fire engine red, Pepto-pink, proliferation of hearts and the cunning cupids. But there is one redeeming quality about all of the Valentine’s Day hype: chocolate. Serious amounts of chocolate. It also...
