Cuisine
Eggplant vertigo
Imam Bayildi is an eggplant dish named for its ability to separate a man from his consciousness. The Turkish phrase means, “the Imam fainted,”...
Try this week: Coconut Shrimp Bowl @ The Bamboo Skewer
How do the folks running the Bamboo Skewer food truck, which specializes in Japanese-inspired street food, get so much coconut flavor into the shrimp?...
Oak at Fourteenth keeps busy after fire
Steve Redzikowski, chef at Boulder’s Oak at Fourteenth, was on his way to work on March 9 when he received the news that his restaurant was on fire...
Try this week: Crispy chicken potstickers, muffuletta and mroe
Crispy Chicken Potstickers
The Bamboo Skewer food truck, Mobile, Boulder County, thebambooskewer.com
The Bamboo Skewer food truck specializes in “Japanese-inspired grilled skewers,” which sound, objectively, delicious. We,...
Roasted spud perfection
The technique is an open secret among those who have the most to gain or lose from the optimization of food. Food professionals like...
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...
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...
Shine on
When I first heard the name of Boulder’s new eatery Shine, I was hoping it would feature entertainment by a troubled pianist portrayed by actor Geoffrey Rush. Alas, Shine appears more to refer to notions of maximized self-actualization than David Helfgott, although ...
Avery Brewing’s Andy Parker on what drives the brewery’s constant evolution
Andy Parker is not a meteorologist. He runs the barrel program at Avery Brewing, and 16 years into his tenure at the brewery, is...
Mixed packs from Oskar Blues and Bootstrap
Oskar Blues Brewery and Bootstrap Brewing Company have been keeping Longmont hoppy for some time now, but with a new mixed-pack apiece, beer drinkers...


















