Local Food News: Another Guy Fieri visit
Audrey Jane’s Pizza Garage in Boulder was recently featured on Triple D Nation, Guy Fieri’s spinoff show of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
Loving Cup is open at 1101 13th St. on the Hill serving coffee, tea, chai and a breakfast/lunch menu.
FSR Magazine’s list of the Top 50 Independent Restaurants in America for 2024 includes Boulder’s 30-year-old Jax Fish House.
Antonio’s Real New York Pizza is open at 325 Main St., Longmont.
Pita Grill is serving at 802 S. Public Road, Lafayette.
Taste of the Week: Ramen Gone Wrong
I love authentic ramen dishes, and I’ve sampled some fine local versions topped with soft boiled egg and sometimes soy sauce-braised pork belly. I would consider eating ramen for breakfast, but I was both repulsed and salivating when I spied Nissin Cup Noodles Breakfast Maple Syrup Pancakes, Sausage and Egg on the supermarket shelf.
Promised my “favorite breakfast flavors,” I microwaved it in five minutes. The result was a cup of standard ramen noodles with squishy bits of yellow egg and brown sausage awash in a sweet salty artificial maple gravy. The experience induced cognitive dissonance with a flavor that was like the remembrance of fast food breakfasts past.
Just because you can make a product, doesn’t mean you should, especially when you fill the cup withpalm oil, sugar, dried sausage, corn syrup solids, salt, disodium guanylate, egg white, sodium tripolyphosphate, sucralose and “spice.” Nissin Cup Noodles Breakfast packs 380 calories, 7 grams of saturated fat and 54 carb grams in one serving.
Is highly processed food like this addictive? I made the Noodle Breakfast to taste and rate it. To be totally transparent, I also ended up eating all of it and sipped that breakfast “juice.”
Thankfully, the product is a limited edition.
Culinary Calendar: Dine out for Ukraine
Brasserie Boulder, Pica’s Boulder, Hapa, Lucky Pie and other Front Range eateries will donate a portion of proceeds July 25 for the annual Dine Out for Ukraine. sunflowerseedsukraine.org
Jack’s Solar Garden in Longmont hosts a July 27 event offering local produce, live music and solar farming tours. Cost: $5. givebutter.com/Harvesting_Home
Arvada’s Rheinlander Bakery celebrates early Christmas July 26 through 28 with eggnog strudel, decorated cookies, gingerbread, rum balls, yule logs and kringles.
Words to Chew On: ’cue insight
“I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie (BBQ) while the women have done all the work beforehand, and then everybody
says, ‘What a great barbie’ to the guy cooking.” — Chef Curtis Stone
John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles and Kitchen Table Talk on KGNU. Podcasts: kgnu.org/category/radio-nibbles. Read more from John Lehndroff on Boulder Weekly: boulderweekly.com/tag/john-lehndorff/