Nibbles
Laf’ it up
I live in Lafayette, Boulder County’s hot new food, drink and dining destination.
Right. If you are laughing to yourself, don’t feel bad: You have a...
Doughnut enter
Traditionally, after long and successful lives elsewhere in the U.S., doughnut shop chains come to Boulder County to die.
Deep-fried dough — filled and topped...
Goodbye and hello
I am the keeper of Boulder’s eatery history.
It’s ended up as my job by default because I’ve written about Boulder food since the late-1970s. I’m...
The butterfly sausage effect
Conventional wisdom says there are two things you never want to watch being made: sausages and laws. If you knew what went into creating...
Colorado’s greatest sandwiches
Colorado is famous for a lot of great things. Sandwiches are just not one of them. In fact, our most famous sandwiches are somewhat...
The Old Man and the Pizza
It’s hard to miss Antonio Laudisio at the Boulder County Farmers’ Market where generations of customers have lined up for his smoky pizzas and Polenta...
20 food experiences for 2020
Face it: If you are what you eat (and you cook and you order from Grubhub), then you are a yawn. Your menu is...
Labored days
It had been ages since our water glasses were refilled. No one had taken our drink or appetizer orders yet. We were hungry.
A chalkboard...
Shaking up Salt
When a space has been a restaurant almost continuously for nearly 75 years, it retains echoes of all the people who’ve eaten and worked...
Once upon a Snarf
Snarf’s was a different kind of Boulder sandwich place from the moment it opened in 1995. The odd restaurant shack on quiet east Pearl...
Open, closed, and revived
One year ago, December 2020, the restaurants of Boulder County and the region were doing their best to survive the unprecedented impact of the...
Field of greens
If you fry it right, the fried chicken people will most definitely come. These folks — constantly disappointed by restaurant fried chicken — will...
