By John Lehndorff - Apr. 2, 2024

Tastes like home

Food halls have proliferated across Colorado, many featuring the same cuisines. Mango House is something completely different.  Entering through a colorful alley entrance, you find yourself in a bubbling nexus...

By John Lehndorff - Mar. 27, 2024

First Bite eats it

With new eateries opening, bistros earning Michelin awards and the Coach Prime effect bringing in visitors, you might assume that 2024 is the best of times for Boulder’s dining scene....

By John Lehndorff - Mar. 22, 2024

Fare-ly cheap

It’s no secret that Boulder has a reputation as a damn pricey place to dine. Sticker shock is nothing new, but lately the cost of dining has skyrocketed, even at...

By John Lehndorff - Mar. 20, 2024

Winner, winner, local dinner

When it came to dining, Boulder used to be flyover territory. Now this small Colorado city is a bona fide American culinary destination and home to many bucket list restaurants....

By John Lehndorff - Mar. 19, 2024

Tipping point

One of life’s most awkward moments gets repeated every week for me. A person stands smiling over me. I gently insert my red debit card into their black device. They...

By John Lehndorff - Mar. 19, 2024

Tastes of the state

APRIL Boulder Farmers Market and Longmont Farmers Marketbcfm.org8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays (through Nov. 16), 13th Street (between Canyon and Arapahoe), Boulder8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays (through Nov. 16), Boulder County Fairgrounds,...

By John Lehndorff - Mar. 12, 2024

Local food news: March 12, 2024

New Local Eateries  Doug’s Diner, 2574 Baseline Road in Boulder, has opened Grab ‘N’ Grub, an adjoining space offering tortas, street tacos, breakfast sandwiches and burritos, 11 a.m. to 8...

By John Lehndorff - Mar. 12, 2024

Boulder, food influencer

Across the United States at this very moment, people are tasting Boulder food.  Suburbanites are enjoying natural herb tea, nut butter and chai with that all-important “Boulder” imprimatur prominently displayed...

By John Lehndorff - Mar. 5, 2024

On top of spaghetti

Spaghetti sauce has been a serious thing in Boulder County since the first Italians settled here, many of them around Louisville. That’s where one of the first Italian eateries, the...

By John Lehndorff - Feb. 27, 2024

Growing hotties

Yes, I know it is only February. Our snowiest month is still ahead. Veteran gardeners know that Colorado’s sunny spring weather is designed to break their hearts and crush their...

By John Lehndorff - Feb. 20, 2024

Watching what we eat

The first time I noticed food on the movie screen was probably the spaghetti-stand kiss in The Lady and the Tramp. Once I started paying attention to cinema, it seemed...

By John Lehndorff - Feb. 13, 2024

Boulder’s ‘tea spirit’

Rev. Bu Nan Brown, co-founder of Boulder Tea Hut, likes a mug of Earl Grey now and again. “That’s what we call tea with a small ‘t’ rather than Tea...

By John Lehndorff - Feb. 6, 2024

Big truffle makers

Willy Wonka undergoes dire challenges on his unlikely path to become a chocolatier whose sweets make people fly in Wonka, the new prequel film about Roald Dahl’s famous character.  “I’ve...

By John Lehndorff - Jan. 31, 2024

Ramble on

Some things sound like they really don’t belong together. For instance, whose playlist would include bar rocker George Thorogood, cosmic avant-garde master Sun Ra, banjo savant Béla Fleck, singer-songwriter Nathaniel...

By John Lehndorff - Jan. 30, 2024

An ode to okonomiyaki

During my freshman year in a college dorm, the eating was easy, if not especially tasty. The first time I had to feed myself was a year later as a...

By John Lehndorff - Jan. 23, 2024

Back to (food) school

When I think back to all the stuff I learned in high school and college, it’s no wonder I don’t use much of that knowledge every day. (Sorry about that,...

By John Lehndorff - Jan. 17, 2024

Tour de Skratch

Dr. Allen Lim is a study in perpetual motion as he wends his way through Skratch Labs Cafe, greeting familiar diners and delivering plates of rice cakes, salads and bowls....

By John Lehndorff - Jan. 10, 2024

Bluegrass and all that jazz

Music fans are forgiven if they thought there were multiple virtuosos over two generations named John Jorgenson. After all, it’s a fairly common Nordic name. There was the electric guitar-wielding...

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