Terrific Tabernash Tavern
Casual atmosphere & first-rate fare in tiny mountain town. Whenever I visit the greater Winter Park area, eating at the Tabernash Tavern is high on my list . This casual restaurant in a vintage building is loaded with more vintage it — such items as beer cans, jumping skis from the Olympics, fishing memorabilia and other eclectic […]
Keystone’s Upcoming Savor the Slopes
Each week features a different resort restaurant showcasing food, wine & spirits. Keystone was Colorado’s first mountain resort to really emphasize its culinary side with interesting restaurants in the valley and up on the mountain. It long ago began hiring real chefs rather than short order cooks who were frying up burgers in exchange for free […]
Zeal Introduces A New Chef
Former Greenbriar chef tackles & tweaks “clean” food menu. Zeal, a downtown Boulder restaurant catering to health-conscious food enthusiasts, opened November and developed a following from those allergic or averse to certain foods or food groups. Vegetarian? Zeal has many dishes for you, including sustainably harvested proteins of various kinds. Carnivore? They serve only pedigreed meats […]
Oceanaire’s Pre-Theater Value
All-night happy hour is a very good deal When I’ve had dinner at Oceanaire before seeing a show at the nearby Denver Performing Arts Center, the portions have been too big and, frankly, the prices too high when added to theater tickets and increasingly expensive parking. Yesterday evening, I spotted a chalkboard sign on the […]
Pre-Theater Visit to Epernay
Great DCPA location & terrific food marred by slow service I have been wanting to try Epernay ever since I learned that Duy Pham, once chef at Tante Louise who left Denver to try to make a fine dining beachhead in Pueblo, returned and was the opening chef at this stylish lounge and sushi-plus restaurant at […]
New Brew & Food Too in East Boulder
Noted Boulder chef opens BRU specializing in hand-crafted ales & food If I wrote a blog post about every new microbrewery, brew pub or particular new beer or ale, I’d have room for nothing else on this blog. Still, I’m giving a shout-out to BRU handbuilt ales & eats, which opens today, because it is […]
