Glacier Ice Cream

Here’s the scoop: Glacier Ice Cream, a Boulder-based chain, offers a seasonal selection of flavors, including caramel Oreo, spicy chai, Junior Mint and dulce de leche. Those flavors are so good that the company earned a Best Ice Cream award in the Best of Denver 2012. And we’re not the only ones who’ve recognized Glacier’s […]

Hodi’s Half Note

After a long stint as the Starlight, and the Mountain Tap before that, this Old Town Fort Collins music venue reopened in 2006 as Hodi’s Half Note. With a 300-person capacity, Hodi’s is big enough to accommodate national artists as well as local bands, but still small enough to provide good views of the stage […]

Holiday Twin Drive-In

The Holiday Twin Drive-In is a two-screen drive-in theater located near Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins. Open during the summer months, it shows two first-run feature films on each screen every night of the week. The box office opens at 6:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 7:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. Note: Box […]

Illegal Pete’s

Colorado is known for its homegrown big-burrito chains. Illegal Pete’s isn’t the largest, but it’s big on flavor, with a wide-ranging menu that includes everything from standard chicken- and carnitas-based burritos to versions with fish or potatoes as the main event. The ingredients are all carefully balanced before the burrito is wrapped, ensuring that you […]

Johnson’s Corner

In the more than fifty years that Johnson’s Corner has been in business, it’s collected accolades of a variety that most restaurants don’t even dream about. Its name was read into the 106th Congressional Record as an example of “the industrious spirit and can-do attitude that have made America great.” The Food Network dubbed it […]

Larkburger

Back in 2006, Thomas Salamunovich started a little stand-alone restaurant designed to feature the burger that, through experimentation and long practice, he’d come up with at the Larkspur Restaurant in Vail and had proved wildly popular at that fancy-pants place. In his words, it was “my vision for the perfect burger experience.” And Larkburger comes […]