Cuisine
Great tastes of 2021
When people find out I’ve been writing about food in Boulder since the 1980s they almost invariably ask, “What’s the best restaurant in Boulder?”
The...
Fresh First Bite
When First Bite debuted 17 years ago, the Boulder dining landscape was in a different place. Diners snapped up reservations for the annual Restaurant...
What farmers do during the winter months
On the outskirts of Boulder, past the myriad car dealerships, pizza joints and other signs of urban living, lives a mysterious group of people whose wintertime actions are unknown to many Boulderites...
Westbound & Down Brewing Company
Westbound & Down Brewing Company, the Idaho Springs-based brewery that was dubbed the Great American Beer Festival’s 2019 midsized brewpub of the year, is...
The great Parkway Cafe now dishes dinner in East Boulder
EaBou is not your $100 steak kind of neighborhood. Located east of Foothills Parkway, north of Arapahoe, south of Valmont and west of 63rd,...
The beauty of butchery
With prices soaring, a butcher says forget the tenderloin and explore tastier, cheaper cuts
The first to 40
“What are these hippies doing up here in Boulder?” Randolph Ware, co-founder of Boulder Brewing Company, remembers Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) inspector Lou...
Via Williamsburg
You walk into a pizza place and sometimes it has photos on the wall of New York City or other places associated with the...
Blood, sweat and cheers
Before my career in culinary journalism, I was a Boulder restaurant cook. I was burned by hot fryer oil, injured in walk-in freezers, sliced...
Know your brew: Czech lager
The beer world is replete with traditions: American IPA, English cask bitters, Belgian abbey ales... But none have the distinction, nor cast a longer...
The implausible burger
There was a Whopper to the left of me and an Impossible Whopper to the right as I sat at a local Burger King...
The next biggest thing in alcohol is… seltzer?
You know, we should’ve seen this coming. There were whispers. Ghosts of future day-drinking excursions. Go back to the mini-fridge in the garage of...
