Tag: Craving Colorado
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Coloradans are flocking to ‘America’s highest fried chicken’ | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ALMA • The bearded, long-haired, tattooed man behind America’s proclaimed highest fried chicken in terms of altitude — and also maybe Colorado’s hottest in terms of recent popularity — is wearing a baggy shirt and sweats and sandals as he dashes up the road to…
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A Sherpa’s unlikely journey to food and drink fame in Boulder | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BOULDER • Pemba Sherpa is often sipping chai. Not just any chai, but his chai. The chai of Sherpa Chai, the company that grew out of his longstanding restaurant here in an old Victorian house along Walnut Street. More importantly, it’s the chai of his…
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Fufu and fortitude: How an African restaurant beat the odds in Denver | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LAKEWOOD • A restaurant’s menu can be a glimpse into a life. This is especially true at African Grill and Bar. A picture of the Osei-Fordwuo family is on the first of the menu’s eight pages, along with words on how they came to establish…
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How ‘the world’s most perfect food’ came to Colorado | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save FORT COLLINS • There’s an old song, “Waltzing Matilda.” It’s an old Australian song. “It’s about a wandering hobo,” Steve Phillips says. He would not describe himself as a hobo back in 2004, but a ski bum, yes. He was a wandering soul indeed, an…
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The rebirth of Cow Palace: Renovated hotel brings upscale dining to Colorado’s plains | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LAMAR • The big, blocky hotel that was a Best Western and then a Rodeway Inn and then closed — dark, damaged and stained, full of outdated furniture and pigeons — was no place for the upscale restaurant that EJ Carpenter and Ezra Gutierrez had in…
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A Boulder breakfast institution built on strong will, filled pancakes | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BOULDER • Jacquie Meyer was sipping tea one recent morning at the bar of the restaurant she owns, The Buff, when she struck up a conversation with a regular. “I get this every single time,” the man said of his breakfast plate, “and my eggs…
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An immigrant’s dream is a famous, multi-generation diner in Denver | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER • One spring morning in 1936, after years of trying to track him down, federal agents finally delivered an illegal immigrant to a courtroom. He was a Greek man named Efstathios Armatas. For more than a decade he’d gone by Sam Andrews. That’s how…
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Creekside in the mountains, an unlikely restaurant dream comes true | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GEORGETOWN • For years while working at restaurants, Amanda and Ryan Cooper kept a notebook detailing dreams to open their own. “We walked around with it,” Amanda says. “We’d jot something down if we ever had a concept.” The dream of their own restaurant always felt…
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Chicken wings & Chinese: This old Denver bar is a true original | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER • The kids are trying to rein him in. “Dad,” Piper Levin says, “you’re kind of going on a tangent.” Forgive Richard Levin, owner of the Piper Inn before the third-generation owners, son Jed and the daughter named after the place. Forgive him —…