Chef Roster Announced for June 7 Taste of Elegance
Great food and great beer to be showcased at upcoming food and beer pairing competition We don’t usually put “beer” and “elegance” in the same sentence, but they are appropriately descriptive of the upcoming second annual Taste of Elegance Chefs Food & Beer Pairing Competition on June 7 at The Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield. Some of [...]
Backcountry Pizza in the Boulder Lowlands
Pizzeria from Nederland brings high-country pies & more down to Boulder Boulder has become such a center of artisanal pizza that I was astonished when Nederland’s Backcountry Pizza announced it would open in Boulder — in the large space vacated when Dolan’s closed. Could they possibly make it against Pizzeria da Lupo, Pizzeria Basta and Pizzeria [...]
Upcoming Colorado Food, Wine & Beer Events
The spring calendar is filled with food and wine festivals, culminating in the extraordinary Food & Wine Classic in Aspen Today is Dining Out for Life, a restaurant industry fundraiser for Project Angel Heart, an organization that provides free nutritious meals for individuals living with AIDS/HIV or other life-threatening diseases. If you haven’t made a reservation [...]
Colorado’s De-Chainification Continues
An old Subway is now The Old Chub Way In October 2009, I wrote a post on “The De-Chainification of Colorado” about former fast food outlets and other chain restaurants that are now something else. The Old Chub Way Expeditious Chow Dispensary Old Chubway is a new quick-serve eatery in downtown Lyons where a Subway was previously located. It serves [...]
August News Notes
Larkburger Now Open in Fort Collins Born-in-Edwards Larkburger recently opened its third quick-service gourmet burger restaurant on the Front Range and its fourth anywhere on the planet at 2539 South College Avenue (near the Drake Road). Larkburger’s policies and practices are described by such green buzzwords as compostable, recyclable, reused, natural, organic, etc., but the bottom line is [...]
Two Affordable Culinary Competitions
Half-Price Tickets to Taste of Elegance Chefs Food and Beer Competition Wine Country Network temporarily becomes Beer Country Network for its Taste of Elegance Chefs Food and Beer Competition on Wednesday, June 9 at 6:00 p.m. at the Pavilion, Omni Interlocken Resort, Broomfield. Guests enjoy and a panel of judges (of which I will be one) evaluate food pairings with the [...]
Two After-Hike Mid-Afternoon Meals
One Boulder brewpub and one Boulder Southwestern restaurant served casual fare I always have food in the house to prepare for dinner on a weekend day when my husband, I and often a friend or two go hiking. But more often than not, we decide to “stop for a bite on the way home.” And there [...]
