An Easter Bounty at the Season’s First Boulder Farmers’ Market

Oh glorious spring! You’re finally here! Saturday was the first day of the Boulder Farmers’ Market, a sure signal that spring has arrived and summer is just around the bend. There were just a few people there to check it out. Aside from a wee bit of wind, it was a lovely, sunny spring day. [...]

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New to Me: 28th Street Tavern

More friends are undertaking an exciting new business venture (suck it, recession). The lovely Suzanne Moore and her husband Ian, with business partner Matt Notter, have opened a new sports bar in Boulder at 28th Street and Bluff (just south of Valmont). Over the years, I’ve witnessed Suzanne’s hubby Ian hone his finely tuned bartending [...]

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New to Me: Red Rock Coffeehouse

I am so in awe of people who can just up and start their own businesses. That’s what my friend Guy Knox did recently when he opened Red Rock Coffeehouse on Iris and 28th St. in Boulder. Guy had been working in the coffee biz for years when his employer, Peaberry Coffee, closed all its [...]

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A Happy New Year’s Eve at (you guessed it) Happy!

When Eric and I heard Happy (which is the new, shortened name of Happy Noodle House) was having a prix fixe dinner and cocktail “social” on New Year’s Eve, it was a foregone conclusion that we’d be celebrating there. And having recently read something about how noodles are an integral part of traditional Japanese New [...]

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New to Me: Atlas Coffee

Are high unemployment rates good for coffee shop business, as more people seek an office away from home? Well, if it’s any indication, there are now four coffee shops within a three-and-a-half-block span on Pearl Street’s East End. And they all seem to be busy pretty much nonstop: Laughing Goat, The Cup, Starbucks (not exactly [...]

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Mmmm cupcake.

After burning a bunch of calories in my ballet class yesterday, I decided to replace every last one of them (and then some) by stopping in Tee & Cakes for a little treat. It was my first time in, driven by one of their frequent Twitter promotions. I chose this little lopsided, orphaned red velvet [...]

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Happy with a Side of Happy

I know that I talk about Happy Noodle House way too much, but it has so captured my undying affection that I just couldn’t resist sharing some pics and thoughts from our most recent evening there. It’s tough to determine whether my obsession with the place revolves around the food, the cocktails or the service. [...]

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Boulder Farmers’ Market: Final Weekend

I have found unexpected joys in the recent chilly days. Summer is a surfeit of sunny weather that makes me regretful if I’m not out there enjoying it all the time. It’s kind of exhausting. Now I can luxuriate in time spent in front of my laptop, the TV or the sewing machine. I can [...]

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World Vegetarian Day: Favorite Boulder Dishes from a Veg Head

In honor of World Vegetarian Day today, I thought I’d share with you some of my favorite vegetarian dishes around Boulder. (Okay, all the dishes I eat are vegetarian since I’ve been one for 21 years. So this is essentially just a list of some of my favorite…dishes.) Green Hornet Roll @ Sushi Zanmai I’m [...]

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Cuisine Stands Up to Cocktails at Happy Noodle

After Eric and I spent an evening being wooed by the cocktails and friendly folks at Bitter Bar, located inside Happy Noodle House, our interests were piqued to try Happy Noodle’s food. We finally had a chance a couple of Fridays ago. We walked in without a reservation, but there was a relatively small and [...]

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