Cuisine
Building a bar, one ingredient at a time
A negroni, that simple classic of gin, vermouth and amaro, is still a negroni if you swap out the gin (though sometimes you add...
Apple pie, baseball and tacos
I love tacos. I love their simplicity. They are the perfect street food: easy to prepare, filling, messy, delicious.
This is no radical statement. It’s pretty...
Try this week: Spicy-Red-Ram @ Chimera Ramen
Where there Once was Chimera, a pan-Asian complement to Edwin Zoe’s fantastic Zoe Ma Ma, now (as of June 1), there is Chimera Ramen,...
Arugula’s Alec Shuler started with chicken and rice
After earning a biology degree in 1995 from the University of Colorado, Alec Schuler had two urgent goals. “To travel and to ski,” he...
Nothing in it
Boulder County has been the launching pad for dozens of natural foods brands. And with more craft breweries per capita than almost everywhere (we’re...
Try this week: Chicken biscuit sandwich, pancita burrito, and more
Chicken Biscuit Sandwich
The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, thewestendtavern.com
The West End has elevated bar food to its highest level in a number of...
Drink of the week: Mountain Sun’s Bourbon Barrel-Aged Chocolate Thunder Imperial...
There are barrel-aged
beers, and then there’s Mountain Sun’s Bourbon Barrel-Aged Chocolate Thunder
Imperial Stout: brewed with over nine malts, two hops, milk chocolate, dark
chocolate and...
New in brew: A stout worth saving
Most savvy beer drinkers will tell you the same thing: The fresher the better. While true for the vast majority of American lagers and...
Upslope’s bacon grätzer is weirdly good
Is it possible to create an elegant bacon beer? Should we, as consumers, even want an elegant bacon beer? The answers to these questions...
Copper Kettle’s Mexican Chocolate Stout is still a winner
Let’s all agree that this past snowstorm was the last throe of winter. In exchange for politely ushering winter out the door, we’ll drink...
Try this week: Jefe’s mango shrimp tacos, and more
Mango Shrimp Tacos
Jefe’s Tacos & Tequila, 246 Main St., Longmont, jefeslongmont.com
There is no lack of variety at Jefe’s Tacos & Tequila on Longmont’s Main...
What food says about who we are
Think about how you define yourself — hair color and style, jewelry, clothes, car, nail polish, piercings, tattoos, musical taste, home décor, job; these...
