Posts tagged boulder foodies
How many Boulder restaurants will feed you when you are down and out?? How about none
Aug 26th
If you were poor hungry and homeless ( no one with a twitter or face book account is) and walked into every Boulder restaurant repeatedly and asked for a free meal, how many Boulder Restaurants do you think would feed you?? How many Boulder restaurants have as their mission statement ” We will never turn anyone down for a meal regardless of their ability to pay. ?? We  will turn no one away no matter how many times they come here looking for a meal. ? Even if they are dirty, mentally ill or been drinking he will feed them? How may Restaurants in Boulder have that policy?? All the hip conscious, we want to change the world restaurants  like the Kitchen or Mod market, you’d think there would be a bunch right?
We aren’t talking about the restaurants who turn their nightly food over to Food Share or do benefits for the Home less shelter. We are talking about; If you are hungry and broke and walked in at 2:30 in the afternoon, how many Boulder restaurants would fix you a plate, give you a rootbeer and say “here you go, everybody has to eat”? Think Dave Query would do that? How about Whole Foods?
How about no they wouldn’t. They’d call the police or security and tell you to get the hell out. There is not one restaurant in Boulder that will feed you for free  day in and day out when you are down and out.
Well there is One, actually.  They not only will feed you, they will help you with other social services needs, too. That place is Daddy Bruce’s Bar B Que. It is run by an 82 year black man, the only black owned Restaurant in Boulder.  This week alone Bruce gave
out over 70 meals. On top of that he took four sick men and women to the hospital ER. He took another poor soul to the Eyeglass store and bought her a frame for her broken glasses.  He took another man to Verizon store to buy a Charger for his phone and then after hours he drove a homeless family to Fort Collins.
Why does he do it.? A good old fashioned answer to that question. The bible tells me to. It is what Jesus taught. It is what we are all called to do. So Boulder Foodies, if you want to support a the only Boulder Restaurant with soul, go over to Daddy Bruces and order up $100 dollars worth of Bar B Q this week and pay homage to the holy man  who feeds the poor.
Johnson's Corner on I-25 north to Loveland
Jul 9th
Any foodie or especially Boulder chefs have been to Johnson’s Corner at the Johnson’s Corner Exit in Loveland north or Boulder on I-25. This award winning American Icon is the most celebrated truck stop for it’s food in the USA. We have eaten there ever since 1975 when Jann wrote the first book on Boulder restaurants. Since we never take a vacation, driving to John’s Corner in the slow lane is a short road trip to glory.
Yesterday, Thursday was “free pie day” with any meal over 8.95. $8.95 happens to be the highest average price on the menu so you already know this place is not over priced. Johnson’s Corner pies are baked in their kitchen every morning and there is a selection of approximately 12 pies. Now the pies are not as good as Sally’s home made pies at Great Harvest Bread Company in Boulder, but they are pretty darn good. Back in the day when Mrs Johnson made all of the pies they were to die for. But still these pies are top notch.
Our favorite is Millionaire Pie. The apple pie is very good as is the seasonal peach and strawberry pies. Lemon Meringue is excellent and the Chocolate cream is good too. The Custard and pumpkin pies are also very good.The blueberry and cherry pies are good. The banana cream pie has real bananas in it. Then there is the mince pie and rhubarb ..well the list goes on.
But where can you go in Boulder to order this magnitude of fresh baked pies. Nowhere. In fact most restaurants don’t serve pie.
You might want rent the 2007 Sun Dance award winning movie “Waitress” if you are into pies and incredible cinema color.
You’ll have the munches afterwards . Then head out to Johnson’s corner.
Even though this review is about pies, we have to mention what we ate for dinner. Sliced Turkey breast, stuffing and mashed potatoes, peas and coffee. Total bill $12.00. Also, there is a boatload of kitsch in the truck stop store so you can buy a bumper sticker that reads: “Would you mind not driving so close, while I’m on the phone”
This place is “so not Boulder”, that it fits perfectly.
Yesterday, Thursday was “free pie day” with any meal over 8.95. $8.95 happens to be the highest average price on the menu so you already know this place is not over priced. Johnson’s Corner pies are baked in their kitchen every morning and there is a selection of approximately 12 pies. Now the pies are not as good as Sally’s home made pies at Great Harvest Bread Company in Boulder, but they are pretty darn good. Back in the day when Mrs Johnson made all of the pies they were to die for. But still these pies are top notch.
Our favorite is Millionaire Pie. The apple pie is very good as is the seasonal peach and strawberry pies. Lemon Meringue is excellent and the Chocolate cream is good too. The Custard and pumpkin pies are also very good.The blueberry and cherry pies are good. The banana cream pie has real bananas in it. Then there is the mince pie and rhubarb ..well the list goes on.
But where can you go in Boulder to order this magnitude of fresh baked pies. Nowhere. In fact most restaurants don’t serve pie.
You might want rent the 2007 Sun Dance award winning movie “Waitress” if you are into pies and incredible cinema color.
You’ll have the munches afterwards . Then head out to Johnson’s corner.
Even though this review is about pies, we have to mention what we ate for dinner. Sliced Turkey breast, stuffing and mashed potatoes, peas and coffee. Total bill $12.00. Also, there is a boatload of kitsch in the truck stop store so you can buy a bumper sticker that reads: “Would you mind not driving so close, while I’m on the phone”
This place is “so not Boulder”, that it fits perfectly.
Foolish Craigs', review, Yelp, food good but waitress's are dirty
Mar 24th
We ate at Foolish Craigs on Pearl Street. The food was good, but the waitress was so dirty , that it took away from our dinning experience. Â When we talked to another waitress friend about the uncleanliness of the place all we met with was a wall of denial. Â But there is nothing worse than to have your waitress wipe her hands on her black apron, have her clothes smeared with food, have her hands dirty and pretty much look and act like a dirty hippie pig.
All of the staff are like that at Foolish Craigs, so that in itself negates any good quality of the food. So we won’t talk about it. Â Not that we are overly pristine. On the contrary we appreciate casual. but we hate, absolutely hate dirty floors, dirty tables, dirty kitchen and t0 the extreme, dirty wait staff. Â We talked to Craig and he just didn’t seem to care what we thought. WTF. That’s it on them.
