River and Woods

Cuisine: Modern American

Neighborhood: Boulder

2328 Pearl St. Boulder, CO 80302

303-993-6301

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Comfort food isn't dead; we still want our macaroni and cheese, our corn dogs and our meatloaf. You can find all of those at this cozy Boulder cottage, but the kitchen doesn't take the easy way out when it comes to evoking food memories. Your mom or grandma probably never presented you with a big slab of chicken-fried calamari, a bowl of matzoh-ball ramen or a plate of sticky duck wings. But River and Woods also respects the past; the gnocchi verde comes from the restaurant's previous tenant, John's, which served Boulder for four decades. And that's comforting, indeed.