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 […]
Bacco’s Beguiling Happy Hour
Italian restaurant in North Boulder offers wide selection, modest happy hour prices My friend Anne-Marie Leon, formerly from Boulder and now living in Seattle, was back in town. We met when our now-grown sons were attending Mapleton Elementary School, and she has stayed in touch with a number of Boulderites, including our kids’ first- and second-grade teachers. She arranged to meet them […]
Cuban Food for a Good Cause
Just a handful of Boulder eateries participated in Dining Out for Life Project Angel Heart is an extraordinary organization that prepares and delivers fresh, nutritious meals at no cost to men, women and children living with AIDS and other live-threatening and debilitating conditions. It is a national organization, and the meal count is nearing half a million brought […]
Via Toscana’s Excellent Happy Hour Cuisine
Chef-made fare, fine ambiance & moderate prices in Louisville Via Toscana is located in a standard suburban strip mall on Louisville’s busy McCaslin Boulevard, but other than the storefront, there’s nothing sandard about it. Enter through the heavy doors, and find what was once a casual place mainly popular with the lunch crowd from nearby […]
