Cuisine
State of the food scene
Every week in this space, I share just a little bit of the long and interesting conversations I have with Boulder County’s chefs, restaurateurs,...
The art of dinner
Barbara Shark is a painter. She discovered a passion for art in high school and began pursuing it as a way of life. She...
Follow the seasons
To celebrate National Cocktail Day — March 24 — we spoke with a couple of local cocktail connoisseurs, as well as the 2022 U.S....
Que será, será
Boulder’s Il Pastaio — “the pasta maker” in Italian — has everything you could want in a red sauce joint: homemade long and short...
Doing happy hour in style at Jill’s in the St Julien
Hotels are not on the average diner’s radar. But Jill’s at the St Julien in Boulder ought to be. A boutique hotel in the style Colorado does best — casually elegant — the restaurant carries this same kind of elegance, and makes it even more pleasing with the value ...
Pantry Treasure
Late on a March evening — Friday the 13th — I went shopping at a Louisville supermarket for some necessities to make it through...
The happiest hour
Boulder’s coolest mid-week happy hours have returned with the reopening of the Wednesday night edition of the Boulder County Farmers’ Market in Boulder for...
Wild Standard sets the standard
When I was a kid, my parents used to bundle me up in the back of my mom’s old Pontiac Grand Am at some...
Kitchen dancer
When Manal Jarrar talks about her food, her hands shape calligraphy in the air at Arabesque, the cafe she owns with her husband, Saib....
Why the cookie crumbles
It’s not just you. For once, it really is the altitude.
Food fries weirdly here, cookies spread out like pancakes, pies explode and some...
Juice, juice baby!
Four years ago, Boulder resident Jo Schaalman was in chronic pain after a sports accident. She made the decision to treat the pain by changing her diet to one based on whole foods and juice...
Facing the flesh
Every ham you bake and every breakfast link you sizzle starts out exactly the same way with a hog dying and its carcass being...

















