Cuisine
Try this week: Pesto Penne, Rainbow Trout and more
Pesto Penne
Carelli’s, 645 30th St., Boulder, carellis.com
Carelli’s has long been one of our readers’ top choices for best Italian food come Best of Boulder...
Dispatch from the loud table
Weeks before we even conceived of a tour of Boulder County’s breweries, I made an uncomfortable discovery: When the Boulder Weekly staff goes out to eat — which is pretty often as we’re all wealthy and have tons of time — we’re the loud table...
Best Boulder County bites of 2023
Some smart psychologist or dietician could have a field day analyzing the dining choices I made in 2023. They might note the excessive number...
Down on the farm stand
The real local flavors are out there, but you have to know where to look.
The French term terroir refers to the character and taste...
A rare whiskey in the wild of Colorado
Once, at a high-end whiskey bar in Chicago, a friend of mine spent $100 on a flight of Pappy Van Winkle, one of the...
Women in the kitchen: nurture or necessity?
Julia Child’s cooking show, The French Chef, first aired on television in 1963, with her demonstration of how to cook an omelet. The show pioneered complex home cooking at a time in the United States when many women did just that. Nearly 50 years later, in a world of...
Tour de brew: Rueben’s Burger Bistro
The Brewers Association — the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent brewers — counts over 6,300 breweries in America, a figure that...
Arugula’s Alec Shuler started with chicken and rice
After earning a biology degree in 1995 from the University of Colorado, Alec Schuler had two urgent goals. “To travel and to ski,” he...
New in brew: Brunch beers
In Colorado, drinking and dining on the patio is a year-round activity, and some months are more pleasant for it than others. Now is...
Frasca’s new sister pizzeria shines
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 ...
New brews in brew news
Cross-promotion is good marketing, something the folks down at West Flanders Brewing in Boulder are clearly trying to take advantage of with a newly released American style porter, Recreational Smoke...
Local brews named head of GABF class
After three days, nearly 50,000 attendees and more than 2,700 American beers, the 2012 Great American Beer Festival seems to have been a roaring success again. The 30 years since the inception of the GABF has seen craft-brewing grow into an $8.7 billion industry, ...












