The Ralphie Report Guide To Boulder: Nominate Best Burrito/Mexican Food, Vote Best Sandwich
by Jon Woods on Jul 20, 2011 1:00 PM MDT
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To help welcome our new Pac-12 friends in their pilgrimage's to Boulder we are creating The Ralphie Report Guide To Boulder.
So here's how this will work. On the dates you see below we will be taking nominations for entries into each of the categories below. You'll have two days to nominate per category. After two days I will put up the nomination post for the next category and include a poll for the previous one. The top three vote getters in each category will be featured in the guide so don't be afraid to offer up some different nominations and make sure to come back and vote in each category. The timing of this will take us right into fall practice. We're getting close...
- Best Burger - 7/12 - Dark Horse, The Sink, Mountain Sun
- Best Breakfast - 7/14 - Village Coffee Shop, The Buff, Lucile's
- Best Sandwich - 7/18
- Best Burrito/Mexican - 7/20
- Best Pizza - 7/22
- Best "Nice" Dinner - 7/24
- Best Dive Bar - 7/26
- Best Sports Bar - 7/28
- Best Upscale Bar - 7/30
- Best Brewery/Brewpup - 8/1
- Best Tailgate Location For Visiting Fans - 8/3
- Best Inexpensive Hotel - 8/5
- Best Expensive Hotel - 8/7
- Best Things To Do On Sunday After The Game - 8/9
Vote for the best breakfast in the poll (poll closes Friday night), nominate your favorite Boulder sandwich spots in the comments.
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+1 On Pete's
But any visiting fan must hit the Rio for margs.
by we don't live in lincoln on Jul 20, 2011 2:13 PM MDT up reply actions
Mamacita's
On the hill, good burritos, delicious margs.
by Meghan O'Connor on Jul 20, 2011 1:16 PM MDT reply actions
3 nominations for 3 different reasons
1 best burritos hands down Illegal Pete’s
2 I don’t necessarily think Pete’s is mexican food so my vote for best Mexican is Effrain’s. Great green chili.
3 maybe this is a sub catagory but best margarita has got to be the Rio.
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numerous
I feel like Chipotle deserves to at least be a nominee—even if it shouldn’t ultimately win—because of the consistent value offered and because the founder has serious Boulder ties (BHS & CU grad). Other than that, Efrain’s & Santiago’s V would be my nominees. The best Mexican food, at least in terms of authentic Mexican, is found in Denver: Los Carboncitos and Tacos y Salsas, to name a couple.
Carbonacitas for sure
It helps that its right by my house too.
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by Buff'em Up on Jul 20, 2011 2:15 PM MDT via mobile up reply actions
Taqueria El Rey
Small place, dynamite food. But keep it on the down low. Felt it had to be mentioned in a best of conversation, but truth be told I hope it doesn’t proceed very far in this competition.
by stopgo211 on Jul 20, 2011 3:08 PM MDT reply actions 1 recs
Totally agree
I discovered it by accident my sophomore year and ate there almost weekly after that. Authentic mexican food and rarely anyone behind the counter speaks english. Plus it’s up near Valmont so it’s a nice getaway from the college crowd.
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Efrain's
Bomb
"In the secondary Wheatley has more interceptions than Boulder has hippies, and Boulder has a LOT of hippies." Eric Cartman
NOPE
Take that Ft Collins based faux burrito elsewhere. Boulder burritos are and will always be superior.
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by Buff'em Up on Jul 20, 2011 7:28 PM MDT via mobile up reply actions
Rio Grande
Tho it’s a chain (There’s one in Lone Tree)
I need a ruling- does Zolo's count?
Look, I've already told Utah to suck it. There's no going back now.
I humbly accept your ruling and withdraw
Look, I've already told Utah to suck it. There's no going back now.
Its "modern Southwestern cuisine"
essentially way to nice a place to be included
I'm just trying to find a space to include it
I would have gone for brunch, but the category’s been eliminated. I might have to bump Frasca for Zolos for best “nice dinner.” Zolos seems more Boulder than Frasca anyway. They have wild boar! and duck tacos I think! (and really, “Mexican food” as we know it is just Tex-Mex. Traditional Mexican food kind of sucks, as I learned not long after moving to LA).
And OT- I’m surprised there isn’t a sushi category. I essentially eliminated Jax from my choices because, you know, seafood and we’re going to Seattle, San Francisco, and LA, but I thought it would at least have been an interesting Zanmai/ Hapa/ maybe Tora fight amongst ourselves.
Look, I've already told Utah to suck it. There's no going back now.
Dangit
Sushi is a big one that we missed. Although, a lot of the people visiting will be coming from places with much fresher fish…
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yeah, that's what I'm thinking
That’s why I don’t want to nominate JAX. How can you nominate a seafood house to a guy coming from Seattle? I just thought it would be fun infighting. By the by, the answer is Zanmai. Also the strongest Purple Haze
Look, I've already told Utah to suck it. There's no going back now.
Zolo's is in a strip mall
Therefore disqualified. Your vote is revoked because you think traditional mexican food sucks. Your telling me you live in L.A. and you can’t find a decent taco truck. Your banished to Chlli’s. Sit this one out Phill.
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by Buff'em Up on Jul 20, 2011 9:59 PM MDT via mobile up reply actions
you think a taco truck is traditional Mexican food?
for shame. By the by- 100% of LA taco trucks are terrible “fusion” taco trucks- they don’t just sell tacos. They sell Asian tacos, or Hawaiian tacos or any other manner of bullshit that they can stick in a teensy tiny taco shell and call a taco. All the good taco trucks got gentrified. It’s ridiculous. Spend $12 for 2 slider sized tacos with all manner of non Mexican food.
Traditional Mexican food does suck. Tex Mex, or maybe Coastal Mex for the seafood, is what we know. Real Mexican food, without “Spanish” rice or refried beans, kind of sucks. It’s not what we think of. I’m Chilean- I know the style. My ex girlfriend was full fledged Mexican, and her “traditional” enchiladas weren’t tasty at all (not because she wasn’t a good cook blah blah blah. The food is just weak). You’re wrong on this one. Regardless of where Zolos is- it’s good food. It serves chips and salsa and tacos. That’s as much “Mexican” as SEVERAL of the other offerings.
Look, I've already told Utah to suck it. There's no going back now.
by Phil Fraser on Jul 20, 2011 10:17 PM MDT up reply actions
Time to get out of those skinny jeans and the fashion district and head to east LA my friend
I’m not going to trust a Chilean’s opinion on Mexican food because anyone who would eat parrillada might as well be eating rat dung.
I make regular trips to Zacatecas with my cousins and can assure you Mexican food is the bomb.
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Zolo's is fine but overrated.
It has been a long time since I went there and maybe all the fuss leading to my going there took away from it but I found it average.
Efrain's: Food Rio: Marg's
Efrains is the best, cut is just so far off the beaten trail, i would guess that most who are coming in for a game would rather the atmosphere of the rio (one of the best rooftops in boulder). I think the Rio wins for the full package of food, drink and atmosphere…
Juanita's
If they hadn’t closed. The red room was an awesome hangout. My friends and I used to regularly drop $200-$400 there on a Friday night depending on the size of the group. Great wait staff and the Burrito Deluxe kicked @SS!
Miss that place for sure
I won a trip to Mexico at Juanita’s during Cinco de Mayo. Loved there chips and salsa. They had a great jukebox too.
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Blasphemy
on the Chipotle assertion not the prior. Boulder is lacking.
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by Buff'em Up on Jul 21, 2011 2:27 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
Half Fast Subs? Best sandwich? Not even close ladies. There is nothing good about their food. Patio? Yes. Drinks? Yes. Underage? Plenty. But food? No, they are not near the marks of any of the other places on the list. And it’s a shame ‘cause most probably haven’t checked out Boulder Creek Market, which is awesome. And Salvaggio’s is incredible.
by Neil Diamond-Armstrong Robertson on Jul 22, 2011 9:47 AM MDT reply actions
Salvaggio's breakfast sandwiches are good
But Half fast has that GIANT chalkboard full of sandwiches going for it. I mean there is a sandwich for everyone on there. Plus 1 strong island and anything will taste great.
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-John Wooden
Thank you for posting this
Back when it was the Yellow Sub it was rocking but not since has that location been that good. You could order a pitcher with one id and get as many cups as you wanted. The subs were awesome and then it became Planet Sub and now that Half Fast crap. Salvaggio’s hands down. I’m going to have to wonder if you stupid if you in anyway think Half Fast holds a candle to Salvaggio’s
Best burrito...
back in the day was Alexanders. Must be closed…
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