Cuisine – Category Archive – North Metro Diversions

Sling the Sweet Potatoes and Chuck the Canned Cranberries: Boulder County Chefs Eschew Traditional Fare

Picture the typical North American holiday plate. Turkey or ham starring as the main with sweet potato and marshmallows, green bean casserole and stuffing stepping in as sides. Toss in a package of economy sized, palate cleansing, overly shiny dinner rolls and perfectly cylindrical cranberry slices and remember to leave room for the pumpkin or pecan pie. The utilitarian composition of

Perrin Brewing’s Winter Warmer Pack, Spirit Hound’s 7th Anniversary

Perrin Brewing Company is Michigan based, so this whole story is just a tease unless you’re ready for a near 20 hour drive. We were intrigued because once it got cold we started switching out our beer koozies for whiskey stones. Who really drinks copious amounts of beer in the winter? Not us. But Perrin, a CANarchy collaborator like our own Oskar Blues, Odell, and others, announced

Boulder County First Bite Triple Punch: Delicious Dishes, Community, and Philanthropy

Boulder County Restaurant Week is here! From Friday, November 8th through Saturday November 16th. The premise of a restaurant week is as follows: One or sometimes two weeks a year, restaurants sign up to offer a fixed menu, inviting curious diners in for a 3 or 4 course meal at a lower price point. There are restaurant week cheerleaders like Tim Zagat. Zagat, in a 2010 Atlantic

Boulder County Breweries Medal Up: 2019 GABF Medal Haul

By Deborah Cameron The 38th edition of the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) took place at the Colorado Convention Center on October 3 -5. As always, it was a massive, suds-soaked three days. 800 breweries and 4,200 volunteers poured 4,000 beers to 60,000 people. On top of that, breweries entered nearly 9,600 beers into the festival’s competition which was the high point of

Off Menu with Daniel “Dan” Flores | Lunada Eatery

Maybe if we could come up with a name better than cheek or head tacos. Chef Daniel “Dan” Flores is describing a wish dish for his restaurant, Lunada Eatery and Cantina in Lafayette. A wish dish is something he wants to serve but that for many reasons has not found a place on their menu. Another of Flores’ favorites, tongue tacos, while a natural alliteration, suffers the same

Potions & Elixirs: The Magical Cocktails of BOCO Bars

Boulder County loves to sip a little something. These creative concoctions are exactly what you need for a splash of indulgence. Erie Injoy restaurant Drink name: Tip Toe Through the Tulips Ingredients: Hendricks’ less well-known Midsummer Solstice Gin, Elderflower, Campari, grapefruit juice, and was garnished with some lovely botanicals. Review: It’s an alliteratively named

25 Dishes from around the world… and around BOCO

Reviews by Andrea Tritschler, Sarah Golden, Melody McGinnis, and Johnathen De La Vaca Martino’s Pizza—Lafayette Chicago Italian Beef This longtime favorite of the magazine is known for their incredible pizza, however their Chicago Italian Beef sandwich really won me over as a favorite dish. The sandwich was made on perfectly crunchy, cheesy bread with exactly the right

Drinks You’ll Love – From Old Fashioned to New Fangled: Mixology and Magic in BOCO

There’s no going out for a meal without drink considerations. We imbibe because, as Benjamin Franklin noted, god loves us and wants us to be happy. And YS want you to be happy, too. We want you to indulge. So we went out for a drink or two so we could tell you where to wet your whistle with the area’s sexiest sauces. Cheers!

DiverCity Series: Shanna Henkel – It Takes a Village

A DiverCity conversation with the woman who runs the Village, creates community, and counts on the continuation of conversation across generations, all while keeping Boulder fed in the great greasy spoon tradition. You know it: 890 sq. ft. of reality surrounded by Boulder. By: De La Vaca Photos: Paul Wedlake Shanna Henkel is half-Japanese. She grew up in Beaverton, Oregon. Both of her

Seven Chefs: Legendary Top Mobile Chefs of BOCO

Garret “Gurt” Safir — Vero “Ain’t nobody gunna give it to you” Garret said with a grin. “You want something, go get it. Plain and simple. If you wanna make a change, be the change. If its too easy, its not doing anything for you. Like Billy Joel said, ‘only fools are satisfied’. Plain and simple.” Sage words from the twenty-six-year-old nomad from Hopewell