Good Taste
by Colin Wrenn
The Shake Shack of Costa Rican chicken
Chef Byron Gomez has cooked alongside a lot of big deal chefs.
He cut his teeth in Daniel Boulud’s kitchens, a fine-dining empire which currently...
By the bowl
Edwin Zoe was already a local legend. But now he’s also a James Beard semifinalist, having been nominated this year for Outstanding Restaurateur. Anyone...
Stem Ciders branches out
When Stem Ciders founders Eric Foster and Phil Kao first opened their urban cidery in RiNo in 2013, they didn’t know that within a...
The world’s largest tiny restaurant
It’s been just over a decade since T/aco (1175 Walnut St.) first opened its doors near the corner of Broadway and Walnut in Boulder....
Striking gold
Anyone who read this year’s Best of Boulder East County was sure to have noticed one name showing up time and time again. The...
Community coffee
No one was happy to hear about the abrupt closure of Caffè Sole at the tail end of last year. Since opening in 1994, the...
A happy couple
When Chef Casey Taylor took the helm of the culinary program at Idaho Springs-based brewery Westbound and Down, the location already had a good...
A little irreverent and a whole lot of earnest
For more than a handful of prominent Colorado chefs, hearing the name Theodore Adley will immediately elicit grins and wistful recollections of joyous time...
‘A part of the legacy and the lineage’
There’s an annual tradition where new graduates from the University of Colorado line up outside The Sink to ink their signature onto the ceiling....
Swan song
Chef John Bissell has spent two illustrious years running the kitchen at OAK at Fourteenth. During that time, he put his signature on seven...
The Big Easy
Of the eight stalls serving food at downtown Boulder’s Rosetta Hall (1109 Walnut St.), there’s one called Chameleon. While most of the other concepts...
The revamp
When longtime patrons saw The Hungry Toad shut down for three weeks, with promises of a new menu and a refurbished interior, there were...
