Trader Joe’s Coming to Colorado
Foodies cheer retailer poised to open several stores in metro area No one is talking for the record so far, but if Trader Joe’s were not planning on opening Colorado stores, why would they have filed paperwork with the Colorado Attorney General’s office for a license to do business beginning April 1? The Denver Business Journal [...]
2 New Murray’s Open as American Cheese Month Ends
New York cheese retailer’s alliance with mainstream Kroger supermarkets October has been proclaimed by no less than Governor John Hickenlooper as the first annual American Cheese Month, which in the manner of “Eats Shoots & Leaves” could be construed as a celebratory month 1) in America for all cheeses, 2) for made-in-America cheeses or 3) for that toned-down cheddar-derived [...]
Whole Renovation of Boulder’s Big Whole Foods
Boulder market unveils its its big new look, expanded inventory and enhanced resources for home cooks I live 22 blocks west of Whole Foods Markets’ first and biggest Boulder location (there currently are also three smaller ones in town). My son worked at the Pearl Street store one summer, and I am sure that he [...]
Marczyk’s Opening on Colfax Today
Marczyk Fine Foods, a urban, urbane, sophisticated market for quality specialty foods, meats, seafood, produce, cheeses, baked goods and prepared foods in Uptown (plus an adjacent wine store) has been renovating a building on East Colfax. It is opening this morning at 8:00 a.m. If it were a restaurant, it would be called a “soft opening,” with little fanfare, [...]
Field Trip to Fruition Farm
The farm has been growing greens, vegetables and herbs. Last summer, the farm added 50 head of sheep and have more than 60 lambs this spring. Partner Josh Halter lives on the farm, partner Jim Warren is the shepherd and partner and cheesemaker Val Landrum turns sheep’s milk into a variety of delicious Colorado cheeses. And that’s why The TruffleCheese Shop has organized a field trip on Memorial Day.
In addition to an exclusive tour of the farm’s cheese making facility and caves, with cheese making education provided by The Truffle Cheese Shop’s experts, guests will have a chance to interact with the ewes and their babies. Then they will enjoy a farm-to-table spring lamb roast prepared by Chef Alex Seidel, Food and Wine’s 2010 top ten best chefs in the country.
Today’s Look at Yesterday’s Blaze
Firefighters spent a good part of yesterday extiniguishing a blaze in a downtown Boulder building that housed four food businesses From across the Pearl Street Mall, the building on the southeast corner oftoward Fourteenth and Pearl looks unsathed. Firefighters battled yesterday’s two-alarm blaze mainly from the roof and the second floor. No ground-floor windows were broken, [...]
Boulder Getting Specialty Cheese Shop
Cured to open on East Pearl this spring Word on the local food street is that a new a new cheese and salumi shop on East Pearl. Sure enough, Cured promises to be open in spring — according to the home page of its website. I have no idea who is opening it or when [...]
