Leaf Vegetarian Restaurant

Vibrant vegetarian cooking is about far more than tofu and seitan. Boulderites have long been focused on meat-free dining, so they’re a tough lot to impress. Leave it to Leaf to rise above the competition and provide modern, international and inventive dishes that folks actually crave. The restaurant has its own farm, so produce is […]

Lechuga’s Italian Restaurant

They don’t make them like they used to – but Lechuga’s marches on anyway, an old-school Italian joint where you can order pasta by the bucket, square pizzas, and Denver-style cannoli, with your choice of a meatball, sausage or sausage-and-jalapeño combo wrapped in dough with a little bit of cheese in the mix, baked and […]

Lechuga’s Italian Restaurant

They don’t make them like they used to – but Lechuga’s marches on anyway, an old-school Italian joint where you can order pasta by the bucket and square pizzas (with green-chile strips, like a true Denverite!). This second, (much) newer outpost is located in Lakewood, though the original Lechuga’s is one of the last red-sauce […]

Leopold Bros.

Leopold Bros. was born in 1999, when Todd and Scott, the brothers in question, opened a brewery in Michigan. They soon expanded their operations to distilling and relocated to Colorado in 2008. It seems like they’ve been here much longer, though, because both the breadth and the depth of their product lines are truly impressive. […]

Les Delices De Paris

Walking into Les Delices de Paris is like walking into another world: one of pure sensation, of cream and sugar, fine flour, yeast and butter and salt. The little pastry shop occupies what could be the most inconvenient location on Leetsdale, but on its best days, this is the best-smelling spot in the entire city […]

Leven Deli Co.

Leven Deli makes pastrami from scratch, starting with whole beef brisket that’s cured before being smoked in a process that takes a total of twelve days. Then, it’s loaded up on fresh-baked rye or sourdough bread for an eye-rolling combo of homemade goodness. While the Golden Triangle spot doesn’t have the broad range of classic […]

License No. 1

In 2014, the Boulderado Hotel became home to two bars, one new and one old. The Corner Bar, which has been around for decades, providing drinks and food in a lodge setting for hotel guests and locals alike, got a facelift. It was joined by License No. 1, which replaced the Catacombs, a longstanding college-bar […]