Cuisine

Drink this: Primitive Beer’s So Last Season

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Primitive Beer’s bottle-conditioned offerings are a thing of beauty, and So Last Season is no exception. It’s a 2-year-old, spontaneously fermented beer, refermented on...

Real ramen rocks at Bento Zanmai

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Rmen gets a bad rap in the United States, especially since most of us are only familiar with the instant dime-a-pack variety, weighted down with a surplus of salt and MSG. This is too bad, as authentic ramen has about as much resemblance to the starving student ...

Try this week: Toffee apple crunch, spicy pig, and more

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Toffee Apple Crunch Tungsten Toffee, Available throughout Boulder County, tungstentoffee.com The family behind Nederland’s Tungsten Toffee never intended to make candy. But when kids Nick, Norah and...

Taste in colors

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Each new plate arrived to the table as a twist of a kaleidoscope. When we drained the color from one, another arrived, swirling colors into a different combination and pattern. We remembered the food by its color, not by each dish, when we left Busaba in Louisville...

Try this week: Il Giro pizza, tofu bibimbap and more

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Il Giro Pizza Pizza Colóre, 1336 Pearl St., Boulder, pizzacolore.com Pizza Colóre does pizza right. Stop into the shop on Pearl Street for a slice and you’ll...

Know your brew: A Thanksgiving guide

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For chefs and eaters alike, no holiday is quite like Thanksgiving. Ditto for drinkers, who break out long-coveted bottles of wine and single-malt whisky...

Flagstaff adopts iPads for wine list

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Flagstaff House may have finally found something that distracts guests from the view of Boulder through their windows — the shiny new iPad sitting at the table...

Boulder restaurants: Old dogs, new tricks

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History bellows from the walls. It is told not quietly under some uniform wallpaper, but through a changing and gaudy array of expressive caricatures, balloon words and inscrutable signatures squished and folded over each other like imprints on soil...

Cheating Mother Nature

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When Rob Rhinehart was living in San Francisco taking a start-up funding course in the summer of 2012, he noticed a startling economic segregation in the progressive city’s food culture. As he explored the hills and crannies of San Francisco he kept noticing that ...

Chews wisely

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Me and fad diets go way back. Mom told me that when I was a toddler doctors advised her to feed me an egg...

A diner that Jack Reacher would like

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Long before Tom Cruise portrayed Jack Reacher on film, I had been reading the popular series of novels featuring this ex-military investigator’s suspense-filled adventures. Reacher, a hulking fellow well over six feet tall, (I had always pictured Viggo Mortensen ...

Authentic Mexican Snickers bars

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Being new-ish to town, it’s always interesting to hear what longer-term Boulderites focus on when describing various restaurants. For example, the way BW editor Joel Dyer summarized Mamacita’s on University Hill: “burritos as big as your head...