Cuisine
Try this week: Carnitas street tacos, Earl Grey ice cream, and...
Carnitas Street Tacos
Tacos Aya Yay, 1206 Centaur Village Drive, Lafayette
The street tacos at Tacos Aya Yay are brilliant. Double corn tortillas hold together a...
Know your brew: Water
Water: it’s what puts
the spring in Golden, the snatch in Burton and the sparkle in Pilsen. It’s the
essential ingredient in any beer, and the...
A career in beer
Every homebrewer remembers their first. For Julia Herz, the year was 1991, and the brew was a Scotch ale.
“It was just the best thing...
Shaking up Salt
When a space has been a restaurant almost continuously for nearly 75 years, it retains echoes of all the people who’ve eaten and worked...
Remembrance of fried clams past
No sooner had the crunchy nugget touched my mouth than a chill went up my spine and I stopped — looked at my sister...
Favorite cookbooks for holiday giving
A gift from the kitchen is so often a gift from the heart. We cook for those we love, sometimes saying more through the roast goose or potato latkes than we can ever express out loud. For those people on your holiday gift list who wear their hearts on their aprons, ...
Hashing it out at the Merc
Western saloons were created to serve certain kinds of customers: fur trappers, cowboys, lumberjacks, soldiers, miners, outlaws... folks who worked hard, even if outside...
Action-packed celeriac
It’s a farmers’ market cliché that celeriac is good in soup. I hear it when folks inquire as to how to use this fragrant...
Colorado Craft Beer Week
Though every day in Colorado is essentially a celebration of craft beer, we still have a special part of the calendar set aside to make a fuss...
Breakfast with a side of country charm
For me, weekend breakfasts take on a distinctly different tenor than workday morning repasts. All too often, the weekday meal is a hurried affair, consisting of downing a cup of java while rushing out the door after gulping down a bowl of granola of piece of fruit. ...
Try this week: Steak and eggs, whirled peas toast and more
Paramount “DiGiacomo”
Black Diamond Restaurant and Tap House , 103 N. Public Road, Unit C, Lafayette, blackdiamondrestaurant.com
Black Diamond is becoming an increasingly popular spot for brunch...
A taste for transparency
America turns its hungry eyes to you, Boulder and Denver... yet again.
America has looked to us in the past for leadership on issues of...


















