Restaurant Reviews
Rama Ramen crafts noodle bowls
With news that the proposed 15,000-square-foot indoor and outdoor food truck park in Boulder is moving forward, it’s a good sign that when I...
Los Dos Bros taco truck fits the scene
Once relegated to geographic pockets, the taco stand has now become a fixture across the culinary map of America. The taco is the paradigm...
Ramen 2.0
The place with the kind of funny name had some kind of good food. Really good, actually. And it felt different inside the restaurant — somewhere between New York City hole in the wall and inoffensive Boulder chic...
Zolo Grill is still slinging exceptional fare
One of the first restaurants at which I ate when I moved to Boulder four years ago was Zolo Southwestern Grill. And that meal...
Mateo is authentic, affordable high-end dining
Mateo is the place you wish existed in the U.S. when you’re abroad, eating simple and wonderful food, so abundant that you hate yourself...
Boulder’s Buddha Thai has a lot to like
When I moved to Boulder several years ago, I asked the Comcast guy installing our cable for restaurant recommendations in town. Better to ask...
Curry-N-Kebob is a comforting favorite
Curry-N-Kebob has to be one of Boulder’s most beloved hidden gems. It’s hidden because it’s scrunched between a Papa John’s and a Quizno’s, and...
Red Rock Coffeehouse checks a lot of boxes
While recently promoting her latest book, Patti Smith detoured and talked about her love of cafes, an affinity that started in the ’60s.
“Back then,...
A memorable culinary trip to Morocco
Stepping out of a nondescript 28th Street parking lot into Tangier Moroccan Cuisine is a transformative experience. Once inside, one removes one’s shoes and absorbs the warm ambiance of a dining room packed with richly colored rugs and comfy cushions. Faced with ...
Georgia boys BBQ may be best on the Front Range
One of the required American barbecue trail pilgrimages is Dallas’s Sonny Bryan’s, a joint renowned for its meltingly tender beef brisket. There are several locations scattered throughout the city, but the cognoscenti know that the food is best at the original shack ...
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 ...
Santa Fe in Longmont
Back in high school, a friend of mine worked at a Washington, D.C., beverage emporium called Georgetown Coffee and Tea...
