Cuisine
Drink this: Primitive Beer’s So Last Season
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...

















