Cuisine

Where do beer styles come from? Sure, that pint you’re drinking may be made down the street, but where does the style come from?...

One year ago, December 2020, the restaurants of Boulder County and the region were doing their best to survive the unprecedented impact of the...

If I’ve learned anything from the recent proliferation of high-end pizza eateries in Boulder, it’s that these aren’t the cheesy parlors of my childhood. No straw hat-doffing servers or coin-operated mechanical pony rides here. You won’t find either at the new ...

There’s nothing wrong with indulging every once in a while. It’s easy to do so at Moxie Bread Co. While the renowned Louisville bakery...

As we discussed last week, Mountain Sun’s Stout Month — a month-long celebration of the dark arts — is a Boulder institution at it’s...

Some smart psychologist or dietician could have a field day analyzing the dining choices I made in 2023. They might note the excessive number...

February is typically the time of year when we talk about stouts, but don’t sleep on stout’s predecessor, porter, when it comes to dark-beer...

One would think that, as research on diet and health continues to pile up, we might start inching toward consensus about what is good to eat, and what isn’t. But in many cases the opposite is happening. We can’t even agree on the essential goodness or badness of ...

Terroir. One of my favorite, more romantic words when discussing the intricacies of a beer’s flavor profile. To be able to taste the unique...

In 1969, the hippies had invaded Boulder and Richard Nixon was president. Cell phones, the internet and the Paleo diet were decades in the future....

Squeeze every drop of summer onto the melting ice cubes of life

Given the West End Tavern’s name, I’m never sure if I’m more likely to encounter the Pet Shop Boys or the Sons of Liberty there, given the old-timey connotations of a “tavern.” However, a recent visit made it abundantly clear that encountering either the male ...