Cuisine
Going mobile
As craft brewing explodes, businesses along the fringes of the industry — from hop farmers to distributors to liquor stores — are booming as well. And, as with the beer itself, Boulder County is taking the lead...
Try this week: 303 Bowl @ The Fork n’ Frijole
Welcome The Fork n’ Frijole and its brand of “traditional and modern Colorado Mexican cuisine” to Boulder County. The spot, recently opened by a...
Future snacks
According to FastCasual, emotions are driving U.S. diners’ eating and cooking decisions more than the shaky economic conditions right now. We are choosing familiar...
Then and now: Longmont
As far as the economists
are concerned, Longmont’s beer scene is a “cluster:” a dense network of
companies and institutions concentrated within a specific geography. You’ve
heard...
Death of a salesman
There came a time when Peter Waters had to intervene in his own life. He’d been working a job selling data plans for a...
Try this week: Cowboy burger, hopped apple cider and more
Cowboy BurgerEureka! 1048 Pearl St., Boulder, eurekarestaurantgroup.com
Eureka! is an infectiously fun spot in downtown Boulder, but what keeps the place packed, in addition to...
To bake the perfect croissant
You’ve had a croissant. When you had it, though, did you really consider it? Did you consider how it is that it’s lighter than...
Alphabet soup
Things are not looking up. While Gov. Jared Polis’ statewide stay-at-home order has expired, Boulder is one of many counties extending shelter-in-place to May...
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...
There’s gold in them thar beers
Oskar Blues signs a letter of intent to build a restaurant in Boulder’s Depot Square development, while at the same time announcing plans to build a new facility across the country in North Carolina. Dry Dock Brewing announces expansion to a new building in Aurora ...
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 ...
Out of the oil field, into the smoker
Thank goodness for the oil fields.
That’s not a sentence you’re likely to ever read again in Boulder Weekly. But I mean it. For if...