Cuisine
CU dining halls push to go local
After freshman year of college, university dining halls become a mere memory that is, for many people, happily no longer a reality. Yet at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the effort that goes in to feeding thousands of students each day deserves more ...
Le Peep’s: Something for everyone
A few years back, I went to a Le Peep’s location in Englewood and had a singularly horrible breakfast, which ran counter to my experience at the Boulder location. I eventually learned the reason for the disparity in quality. The Boulder venue operates independently ...
Snarfing it down
My relationship with sandwiches has been ambivalent at best, due perhaps to their constancy as a lunchtime staple through my elementary school years. One unintended consequence of this routine is that I occasionally experience an inexplicable craving for Underwood’s ...
Specialty foods give Boulder (even more) character
Try to imagine the San Lorenzo Market in Florence, Italy. A towering two-story building, it is packed with boisterous Italian men each selling their trademark food. Patrons buy cheese at one booth, fetch their bread at the next and select tomatoes at another. For ...
Some China spice
Spice China 269 McCaslin Boulevard, Louisville. 720-890-0999 One of my childhood traditions was Friday night family dinner in Oakland’s Chinatown, a ritual both satisfying and inexpensive. This custom lives on, as my sister recently related that she was able to ...
Lactose intolerant? Try a slice of cheese
Cheese is arguably one of the world’s most prized commodities. Spanning the globe in vast diversity, it has remained a gustatory staple for thousands of years. Yet somewhere along the way, cheese gained a bad reputation and became, for many Americans, nothing but a ...
Off the beaten brunch
As friend Lisa and I drove on Hwy. 36 north of Boulder, we couldn’t help but notice the landscape’s arid harshness. Even though the sun was shining, we couldn’t shake a feeling of wintry desolation. Happily, the mood shifted for the better once we entered our ...
When Valentine’s Day and good food collide
Legend has it that in third-century Rome, when St. Valentine heard of Emperor Claudius’ marriage ban, he set to work marrying love-struck couples in secret. Another story says that while in prison, Valentine wrote a letter to the girl he fell in love with and signed ...
Thai a noodle on
Suki Thai Noodle House carries on the proud Asian tradition of serving noodle soup as a satisfying and economical one-dish meal...
Local consultant makes sense of recent dining closures
Those wishing to dine out these days may find that choices are more limited due to a recent string of restaurant closures throughout Boulder. Within the past four months, at least six local eateries have shut their doors, marking an undeniable shift in Boulder’s ...