Cuisine

Laf’ it up

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I live in Lafayette, Boulder County’s hot new food, drink and dining destination. Right. If you are laughing to yourself, don’t feel bad: You have a...

Goodbye and hello

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I am the keeper of Boulder’s eatery history. It’s ended up as my job by default because I’ve written about Boulder food since the late-1970s. I’m...

Illegal Pete’s Pete Turner pays his employees close to $20 per...

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Pete Turner made international news a few years back when he refused to submit to outside pressure and change the name of his chain...

Colorado’s greatest sandwiches

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Colorado is famous for a lot of great things. Sandwiches are just not one of them. In fact, our most famous sandwiches are somewhat...

Open, closed, and revived

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

Tracing Boulder’s natural-food roots to a Carnival

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Editor’s note: The following is a recollection of one of Boulder’s first natural-foods restaurants, the Carnival Café. Let`s go back to the early 1970s, a time when Boulder was a simpler place to live and life was slower paced. The pedestrian mall on Pearl Street ...

The pig that saved Avery

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Stay in one place long enough, and you’ll see things come and go, only to come back around again. It’s been over 40 years...

BlueBox Doughnuts is a sweet addition

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Boulder County has had a tumultuous relationship with the doughnut in recent years. Reputable chain bakers like Winchell’s, Daylight and LaMar’s have held court,...

Lafayette’s growing bakery neighborhood, a John’s fish recipe and a plant-based...

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In a quiet way, the area where South Boulder Road meets South Public Road has slowly become Boulder County’s oasis of baked goods. The...

The Old Man and the Pizza

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It’s hard to miss Antonio Laudisio at the Boulder County Farmers’ Market where generations of customers have lined up for his smoky pizzas and Polenta...

Colorado whiskey is gettin’ good

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Bourbon aficionado Fred Minnick recently placed Boulder Spirits’ 5-Year Straight Bourbon as the number 10-ranked whiskey released in the U.S. in 2022. “The biggest surprise...

Chef Bradford Heap asks, ‘Do we evolve?’

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Chef Bradford Heap has a reputation of being hard to work for. That’s according to him at least. “I’m more of an alienator and...