The Ralphie Report Guide To Boulder: Nominate Best Dive Bar, Vote Best Upscale Dinner
by Jon Woods on Jul 26, 2011 5:00 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 - Salvaggio's, Half Fast Subs, Snarf's
- Best Burrito/Mexican - 7/20 - Illegal Pete's, Efrain's, Rio Grande
- Best Pizza - 7/22 - Cosmo's, Beau Jo's, Abo's
- 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 Boulder upscale dinner spots in the poll (poll closes Thursday night), nominate your favorite Boulder dive bars in the comments.
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No one nominated that place.
Why did no one nominate it?
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Im an idiot.
I was thinking dinner. It’s been an extremely long dinner
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haha. An extremely long dinner? Want to try that one again, too?
Look, I've already told Utah to suck it. There's no going back now.
Haha
I quit. You can tell what’s on my mind as I try and finish this insane amount of work.
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depends...
best all time dive around boulder – The Outback
best dive on pearl – The Sun(Scum)downer
How the hell is flagstaff winning?
Great place but aren’t we past the 80’s?
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by Buff'em Up on Jul 26, 2011 8:06 PM MDT via mobile reply actions
Lots of time left.
Poll hasn’t even been up for 5 hours yet
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The Flagstaff has been around a lot longer than since the 80's!
It only seems like my first rodeo…
I proposed to my current wife there, and for many other reasons that will always be my favorite restaurant anywhere. When it comes to truly fine dining, I’m old-fashioned, and thank God so is the Flagstaff House.
Tom Moe "T.Moe"/"Tom4Buffs"
"Wear Black &/or Gold only,show up early,stand up & get loud,stay til it's over!"
Flagstaff
Flagstaff is kind of in a league of its own on this one. It’s a true dining experience from start to finish, I’ve been there several times and each one has been unique and brilliant. It’s saved for only very special occasions though, just a bit too pricey for anything more than once a year.
If you just want great food and are comfortable with spending a bit more than a standard sit down, Frasca’s can’t be beat, if you can get in, it’s one of the best restaurants in the state.
The walrus saloon
I mean you order food on a phone from old C, which a block away. Free peanuts! 22oz beers!
I think catacombs, sundowner, and the sink should be on the list to.
+1
I was thinking walrus as well, always loved the peanuts.
I actually considered the dark horse a “dive” but since it won best burger I guess it’s not much of a dive. They just used to have a great happy hour, good prices, and trike races.
the Dark Horse is very very much a dive
And The Walrus holds up worse than just about any bar in Boulder. I liked it in college, but I went back a year after graduation and just felt incredibly old.
Look, I've already told Utah to suck it. There's no going back now.
yeah, the walrus should definitely be nominated
as it is the very defininition of a college dive bar, but like Phil referred to already I wouldn’t recommend it to “out of town Pac-12 visitors” because of it’s limited appeal. Unless you want to be in a hot, uncomfortable, extremely loud room with 300 21 year-olds then the Walrus probably isn’t for you. Saying all that, as a poor college student I loved the free peanuts and 22oz PBRs too!
by nebraskasux on Jul 27, 2011 10:28 AM MDT up reply actions
Tulagi's
I know it’s no longer around, but seriously, there was no better dive bar, esp. for live music. Which makes me wonder why there’s no upcoming vote for best place to see live music in Boulder?
Agreed, Live Music should definitely be a top category
by we don't live in lincoln on Jul 27, 2011 10:46 AM MDT up reply actions
I thought about it
But it just didn’t really fit in with the “in Boulder for the weekend” thing. I love live music but I would never want to go to a show on a football road trip.
Any venues can certainly be nominated for Sunday stuff though
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These polls are making me feel very uniformed about my "home town"
Tell me if this is pathetic: I lived in Boulder for 22 years. I have eaten at the Cork once and the Flagstaff House once. That is all.
I was poor growing up (well, poor for Boulder anyway, not poor for Detroit), extremely poor as a CU student, and then I moved out of town as soon as I graduated. It’s not just the fancy restaurant catagory either. I never ate at most of the highfalutin sandwich or mexican places either. Subway or Taco Bell is about all I could afford, my money went towards school and living expenses 1a and beer 1b, there wasn’t any left! I guess I need to get back more often and try these places.
I think I ate at Salvaggio's once, so I voted for them
I went to Silver Mine a lot, but they’re gone. I would’ve nominated La Iguana for Mexican, but they’re gone. I would’ve gone for The James or The Foundry for upscale bar (I don’t know any real upscale bars), but they’re both gone. Oasis Brewery? gone. I feel very very old. I basically lived at Foolish Craig’s, and the West End. And Sushi Zanmai when I wanted to feel fancy
And I remain baffled that Flagstaff is routing the competition (one vote shy of the next 2 combined. It’s very nice, but insanely overpriced, kind of stuffy, and not where I’d recommend someone go when in town for a football game.
Look, I've already told Utah to suck it. There's no going back now.
by Phil Fraser on Jul 27, 2011 11:28 AM MDT up reply actions
One of my roomates would always bring home stuff from Silver Mine, I know he loved them
but even that was too spendy for me! I liked the Oasis Brewery, kind of a low key place. My mouth is watering just thinking of all the oatmeal stout I drank there.
by nebraskasux on Jul 27, 2011 11:38 AM MDT up reply actions
Dude your bumming me out
got any upbeat takes from college? I hope your better off know. Never got a chance to visit Oasis or it’s later incarnation The People’s Republic.
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haha, sorry
yeah, totally, college was great, but eating out all the time and going to expensive bars wasn’t a huge part of my “college experience”. I had just as much fun hanging out at the house with the homies, cooking up some burgers on the grill and polishing off a couple 30 packs. Not everyone has a trust fund! (not saying you did, just that there were and are tons of “rich kids” at CU).
by nebraskasux on Jul 27, 2011 12:05 PM MDT up reply actions
I lived around the corner from Silvermine on College
proabably a 1/2 block away but still ordered delivery.
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I was just north of 30th & Euclid. Also delivery
Look, I've already told Utah to suck it. There's no going back now.
by Phil Fraser on Jul 27, 2011 11:56 AM MDT up reply actions
Love that area
College Ave is now a bunch of boxy condos. I miss the dirty old townhomes for sure.
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Oh, and there was a Perkins right by my apartment.
I would go to town on some biscuits and gravy after the bars closed. Then it got toen down. And I cried.
Look, I've already told Utah to suck it. There's no going back now.
by Phil Fraser on Jul 27, 2011 11:57 AM MDT up reply actions
Dead on with the Flagstaff House
Boulder has so many great restaurants where chef’s are doing really innovative and cool things with food. The flagstaff house isn’t one of them.
K's China
Especially the rooftop around sunset.
Also:
Walrus, Catacombs, Dark Horse, and Pearl St Pub
100% K's China
My friends & I would go to K’s after class on a Wednesday or Thursday for an early start to the weekend before going out to other places….it’s a hideaway bar that is never crowded because the food is questionable, but the roof deck was/is unreal. Cheap drinks, great location and an amazing view of the Flatirons….this is the choice for a dive bar. Also great before a football game, while everyone else is squeezing into The Sink, we went to K’s and had the run of the place.
you'd call West End Tavern a "dive" bar?
Look, I've already told Utah to suck it. There's no going back now.
Forgot to mention it but Gold Hill inn is a great place to get dinner
about 25 minutes up Sunshine Canyon with spectacular views of the Indain Peaks and nightly live blue grass. They serve 7 course meals and the restaraunt is an old turn of the century cabin. I like it so much I got married there last summer.
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Best dive bar.....
The Goose, by far the best place on the Hill, and definitely a DIVE.
The Pub
Because they serve a pretty damn good late night burger
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Maybe it doesn't quite count...
But heading up the Canyon to Nederland and taking in the Pioneer Inn’s Ambiance is well worth the effort, and a pretty sweet dive with some pretty gritty/interesting locals….
…and it’d give visitors a chance to take in the hometown of Frozen Dead Guy Days…
So I’d toss my vote in that direction, but don’t think I’ll see much support. ;-p
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