Pearl Street Holdings plc

Photos: Steam Espresso Bar now pouring in Platt Park

After months of renovation, Steam Espresso Bar is now pouring in Platt Park. The sleek spot is open from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, and will hold a grand opening celebration from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 4. Keep reading for more photos of Steam. See also: - Common Grounds will pour its last ... More >>

Izakaya Den's move to new home next to Sushi Den set for May

It was one of the biggest deals of 2012: Thirteen months ago, brothers Toshi and Yasu Kizaki announced that they had entered into a deal with BW Holdings, the company that controls the Wynkoop/Breckenridge group of breweries and restaurants, agreeing to swap Izakaya Den's current location -- a stand ... More >>

Celebrate the Pearl Street Mall's 35th birthday tomorrow with live music, kites and more

Boulder's Pearl Street Mall is known for its funky shopping and dining district as well as its street performers. Less well known is the street's colorful history, dating back to Boulder's days as a mining supply town. Starting tomorrow, August 1, celebrate the Pearl Street Mall's 35th birthday wit ... More >>

Reader: F the spoiled hipsters -- Highlands Ranch needs a Tavern

The news that Tavern Hospitality Group will start work on a spot on South Pearl Street this summer -- Tavern Platt Park is going in the former home of India's Pearl -- and has also bought a building in Highland for a future Tavern LoHi brought howls of dismay from some residents of those neighborhoo ... More >>

Makan Malaysian Cafe will open at the end of the month on South Pearl Street

The former Pearl Street Grill may still be dark, while Yasu and Toshi Kizaki, the brothers who own Sushi Den and Izakaya Den, retool that space to make way for the relocation of Izakaya Den, but down the block, at 1859 South Pearl Street, Karen Wee Lin Beckman is gutting a small storefront that will ... More >>

Wazee Supper Club will close Friday for a three-week overhaul

The Wazee Supper Club has been serving cold beer and hot Colorado-style pizza since it was founded 38 years ago by the Karagas brothers, Jim and Angelo, who'd opened My Brother's Bar a few years earlier at 2376 15th Street. From the start, the Wazee was lower downtown's go-to neighborhood bar -- lon ... More >>

The Crushery closes on South Pearl Street

"It all began in 2007," begins the conversation with John Davidson, "when the landlord violated my non-compete clause four months after we opened -- and Pajama Baking Company opened just a few doors down from me. We had to split business, which isn't what I'd signed up for."

Former Boulder Daily Camera building will be redeveloped with at least one new restaurant

The Daily Camera pulled out of its 119-year-old digs on Boulder's Pearl Street in early 2011, but Los Angeles-based Karlin Real Estate, the group that purchased the building in 2010, had already begun planning a project that would raze the current structure and rebuild a mix of office and retail spa ... More >>

Roll 'Em In Boulder

Another restaurant falls by the wayside with the shuttering of Sabor Latino

Just under a year ago, Sabor Latino underwent a major cosmetic makeover after more than a decade at its second North Denver location on 35th and Tennyson (it originally opened in 1990 on 32nd Avenue), where it plied Denverites with paella, ceviche and sangria. But the venerable homage to South Amer ... More >>

Reader: From the Dinner Bell to the Den restaurants, Pearl Street keeps evolving

Several New Year's Eve restaurant closings surprised the city -- including that of Se7en and M&D's Cafe -- but the three-way closings on South Pearl Street were a real triple whammy. As anticipated, the 29-year-old Pearl Street Grill closed...but India's Pearl shut its doors just hours later, and OT ... More >>

Pearl Street Grill, OTOTO and India's Pearl all close on South Pearl Street

Jesus, it's only day three of the new year, and already, in the span of one weekend, three restaurants have shuttered on South Pearl Street. After 29 years, the venerable Pearl Street Grill locked its doors after service on Friday night, India's Pearl stopped slinging curries after New Year's Eve se ... More >>

Over the Weekend: LoDo New Year's, Pretty Lights, closings and openings

What a weekend -- and if you missed any of it, the Westword family of blogs (Cafe Society, Backbeat Online, Show and Tell and our slide show page) has you covered. Look below to get hipped to New Year's in Lodo, Pretty Lights shots, a trio of big restaurant closings and theater offerings that promi ... More >>

Some major openings, some sad closings: Our restaurant roll call for December

There's always a lot of action at the end of the year, and 2011 was no exception: After last call early on December 31, the Pearl Street Grill closed its doors, after almost thirty years in business. The Pearl isn't gone for good, though. It will reopen in 2012 -- but in a different location on the ... More >>

Pearl Street Grill closes tonight and will reopen in a new space with a new name and concept in mid-2012

By 5 p.m., Pearl Street Grill, the iconic watering hole on South Pearl Street, was jammed with imbibers clinking pints of porter, embracing friends and lamenting the closure of one of Platt Park's oldest neighborhood gathering spots. At 2 a.m., after last call, Pearl Street Grill will lock its doors ... More >>

Beet burger and other veggie options available at the Kitchen [Next Door]

​Boulder's Pearl Street Mall is always busy, and this past Sunday afternoon, it was humming with activity -- families strolling down the sidewalk with toddlers in tow, couples gazing into each others' eyes and groups of friends gathered on patios to upend a pitcher in preparation for Monday mo ... More >>

Boogie on Down to BrewGrass

Brown Dog Pizza applies for a liquor license -- and the South Gaylord Neighborhood Association is doing what it can to make sure it doesn't get it

Lori Midson​Moments after I'd pulled over to take the above snap, somewhat excited that South Gaylord Street -- the street on which I live -- was getting a new restaurant (and, suggestively, a liquor license), I opened my mail, only to find a full page rant, penned by the South Gaylord Neighbo ... More >>

Fire breaks out at Boulder's Oak at Fourteenth

Tara Anderson​Part of the Pearl Street Mall has been evacuated after fire broke out this morning at Oak at Fourteenth, the recently opened restaurant owned by bartender Bryan Dayton, chef Steve Redzepi and general manager Annie Polk. Flames burst out in the attic, a space between the ceiling ... More >>

Review preview: Ototo Food and Wine Bar

Mark Manger​Toshi and Yasu Kizaki have been serving Pearl Street for two decades, first with Sushi Den, which they opened in its current home twenty years ago, and then again with Izakaya Den, which first started serving dinner in 2007. Both of those spots pack crowds into cavernous spaces ev ... More >>

After nearly thirty years, Juanita's in Boulder goes dark

Melanie Asmar​For the past 28 years, Juanita's has been a Pearl Street mainstay, holding onto its sliver of storefront space that led to a well-worn front dining room and back lounge, even as other establishments turned over for newer, trendier concepts on either side of it. But on March 1, t ... More >>

Meet and greet at Pearl Street Grill

Shela Burgess​ Pearl Street Grill 1477 South Pearl Street 303-778-6475 www.pearlstreetgrill.com

Boulder Police on why they want to reign in the Mall Crawl and Naked Pumpkin Run

Once upon a time on Halloween, the Pearl Street Mall crawled like this.​The Facebook campaign to resurrect the Boulder Mall Crawl, a Halloween tradition that was put down in 1991 because crowds in the tens of thousands got a wee bit too rowdy, is dead -- if it was ever alive. On Wednesday, Rya ... More >>

Holy Sunday! Biker Jim now peddling his dogs at the South Pearl Street farmers' market

Lori Midson​I headed over to the South Pearl Street Farmers' Market on Sunday, and guess whose smoke and sizzle stopped me dead in my tracks? That of Biker Jim Pettinger and his wiener wagon. As Jason Sheehan reported back in June, Jim has added a second downtown cart at 17th and California, makin ... More >>

Aborted sale of Daily Camera building speaks volumes about Boulder economy

Photo by Michael RobertsThe Daily Camera's longtime HQ. This past weekend, my family and I took a stroll in one of my favorite places, the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder -- and while the sidewalks were crowded, I saw unmistakable proof that the area isn't immune from the economic downturn. For the fi ... More >>

Undeniable sign of spring: Didgeridoos on the Pearl Street Mall

Fabulous RAZR photo by Michael Roberts Saturday on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder was so absolutely gorgeous that probably 50 percent of the out-of-towners strolling the area are now seriously thinking about moving to the city. Of course, they'll change their minds as soon as they learn more abou ... More >>

The List: Crazy concepts...but they work

Shazz was a weird one to review. While I was both flummoxed and annoyed by the goofy, jazzy, half-Zen philosophy espoused by the restaurant's website, some servers and owner Benny Kaplan, I absolutely loved the food. Which got me thinking... what other restaurants have what should have been a crippl ... More >>

Old-World Charm

Old South Pearl Street brings on the nostalgia with Winterfest.

Celebrating Boulder's Bongo the Balloon Man

A String of Pearls: Black Pearl

A String of Pearls: Pearl Street Grill

Costume Party

Pearl of the Winter

How far would you go for a Violet Crumble candy bar?

How far would you go for a Violet Crumble candy bar?

Ten Days 'Til Christmas

Best Ride When You Really Need One

NightRiders

Best Store on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall

Atmosphere

The Taming of the Busker

A one-man play combines drama and juggling

Drink of the Week

Pink Lipstick

Best Farmers' Market

Old South Pearl Street Farmers' Market

Best Comfy Place to Sit While Waiting for a Table

Mateo

Best Holiday Craft Fair

Gifts for Yule

Best Window Displays (Yule and Otherwise)

Five Green Boxes

Check, Please!

Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

Throw the Bums Out

Merchants battle transients on the mall.

Scenes From a Mall

A timeline of the Pearl Street Mall

Mall in the Family

While other downtown malls died, Boulder’s was a real success story. But then came the chains and other Block-busters.

Mouthing Off

PICTURE PERFECT