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Nibbles: Want Fries With That?
I’m starting to feel like I’ve moved to Swallow Falls, the mythical town in the film Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs where cheeseburgers rain down from the sky.
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Cuisine
Inspiring Italian
It used to be that “mall food” was about the lowest insult you could sling at a restaurant. Mall food was synonymous with a food court, a wasteland consisting mostly of soft-serve ice cream, pizza slices as big as your…
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Pie in the Sky
Walking down the Pearl Street Mall, I’d never paid much attention to 14th Street Bar and Grill. Its patio tables always seemed packed beneath its cheerful yellow awnings, but I never looked past the façade. How wrong I was to…
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Challenging Elements: Cantina Laredo
A few months ago, Robbie Wright, the general manager of Cantina Laredo at the 29th Street Mall in Boulder asked us why we don’t have a challenge for bartenders. We didn’t have a good answer for him, so we decided…
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Burrus at the Bar: Dry Dock Christened Brewery of the Year
As much as anything, medaling at the Great American Beer Festival is about bragging rights. Putting together a beer that fits a particular style—especially when that style is being attempted by another four or five dozen brewers around the country—and…
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Bier Essentials
As Oktoberfest approaches and you prepare for polka music and brats, let’s celebrate what unites us as Coloradans: beer. Here, we raise our glasses to fall beer, locally brewed Märzens and our hop-loving forefathers.
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Nibbles: When John Met Julia
It was my father, the Austrian-born anesthesiologist, who turned me on to Julia Child, and not Mom, who did all the cooking. I would hear him laughing in the TV room and go in to find out what was so…
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Challenging Elements: Chili Powder
Our favorite part of doing this column is that moment when we call the chef, tell them the ingredient and then listen to the pause immediately after, when you can practically hear the wheels turning with ideas.
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Breakfasts & Brunches
Sweet or savory, early morning or early afternoon, family-style or fancy: however you like it, whatever you call it, the first meal of the day is always one of the best.
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Great Expectations
Walking down Main Street in Longmont on a hot summer night in the late 1800s, you might have noticed a cavalcade of revelers gathered at the corner of Main and Third, enjoying music and drink, their laughter and conversation spilling…
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