Because
I’ve lived in Boulder, Colorado since 1981, and have been a cog in
the local dining and food PR scenes*, this was something I just had to
compile. Over the years I chatted with friends (especially John
Lehndorff who was the food editor for the Daily Camera and the dining
critic for the Rocky Mountain News) about things like, “What used to be there before
The Cheesecake Factory?”, or “What was in the Frasca spot back in the
‘90s?”. But I have never found a single list that included all the
restaurants that have been in Boulder. So, I compiled one. If you have any comments, corrections, information, or hopefully know the answers to any of the "Unknowns" at the bottom of the list, please send an
email to: bouldergourmet at aol dot com Enjoy! Laura
*Some of my culinary adventures:
- 12 years on - or running - the restaurant committee of
Boulder's Taste of the Nation event
- Member of Slow Food Boulder since 1997 (on the
steering committee for eight years)
- Went on restaurant reviews with the Rocky Mountain News
for seven years, and even went on a few with the Boulder Business Report, Daily
Camera and Colorado Daily
- A week at cooking school in Tuscany
- Eight years in the natural products industry and several years in food PR with local companies
- Kitchen experimentation from 2003 - 2011 with a friend via
"Laura and Pennie's Quarterly Culinary Adventures"
- Attending soft openings, judging at contests, and involvement
in other food events
- Securing my fifteen minutes of fame, when I won a food
trivia game show on the Food Network ("Trivia Unwrapped"). As well, I
was on camera for the Denver episode of the Food Network's "Bizarre
Foods" which aired Feb. 18, 2013, and at (but not on camera) a Food
Network televised Hot Luck party.
- Hosting food truck parties at my local park since the
summer of 2012
- Helping out with the Flatiron Food Film Festival since
it's inception in 2013
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