Where the Locals Eat: Colorado Ski Town Edition

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Colorado ski resorts are notoriously expensive. With lift tickets running upwards of $100-150 a day, you’ll want to budget wherever you can. Be a savvy traveler and refuse to pay tourist prices at the see and be seen restaurants in town.…

Stop Calling Me a Food Critic (I’m Not)

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 No fancy cameras here. I take all my own iPhone photography. Literally the first thing people ask when they find out I write a food column is if I’m a critic. Or, they skip the asking all together and just assume. Let me clarify…

Denver, Your Dining Sucks. Sincerely, a Real Foodie

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I'll let you in on a little secret. While I write for one of the biggest food publications in the Mile High, very little about the restaurants in Colorado impress me. I regard almost everything about my move to Denver as a life upgrade,…

The 3 Spots in Denver I Always Take People Who Visit Me

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While people usually come to Colorado for the mountains (hiking or skiing), I do get the occasional, make that frequent weekend guest on a desperate mission to escape the Chi-beria winter (yes, it is always warmer here). Then there are those…

Eating Your Way Around Boulder in Five Stops

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While I purposely didn’t want to relive college by moving right back to Boulder, it is and will always be my happy place. But outside of undergrad life and my unwavering love for Buff athletics, it's a pretty amazing place. For a small…

Stoner Food City

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – the dining scene in Denver is weird (so is the dating scene). Not so much ethnically ambiguous as “creative license" likely inspired by one too many tokes,  there’s fusion, but…

The Best Things to Do in North Shore Chicago aka How to Survive Suburbia

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Rocking the suburbs - everything to do, see, and eat in North Shore Chicago.