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Bakery Four currently offers only one kind of sourdough bread, plus croissants, pain au chocolat, morning buns, cardamom buns and cruffins (a croissant-muffin hybrid filled with pastry cream). Bergin uses stoneground wheat grown on small farms, creating baked goods with rich flavor and plenty of nutrition. The baker says he ll be able to increase production to about 100 loaves a day, and in a bigger variety, and will be able to double his pastry production. With more baking, sandwich making and coffee service, the bakery will also be hiring more employees, up from just Bergin, his assistant baker and his wife, Alex Urdanick.
The luck of the Irish ran out last year on St. Patrick s Day, normally one of the busiest times for bars and pubs. March 17, 2020, was the first day of a two-month-plus-long COVID-based lockdown in Colorado, which closed restaurants to in-house dining and made bars that couldn t come up with some way to serve food strictly verboten. Just a few days earlier, Denver s annual St. Patrick s Day Parade had been canceled, though incautious revelers still packed bars in trendy neighborhoods that weekend (since social distancing and group- gathering rules hadn t yet been imposed in the state).
A year later, with most Denver restaurants now operating at Level Blue on the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment s dial dashboard, Irish pubs are making plans to douse the city in kelly green but with an eye to public health and safety. Bars with no food service are still closed, but most have figured out ways to provide good grub to customers and meet state requirements.
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On March 7, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment surprised the restaurant industry by adjusting the current Colorado COVID Dial to ease restrictions. The biggest change? Pushing last call for alcohol back to the standard 2 a.m., in certain circumstances, after a year of early cut-off times. That s great news for both night owls and watering holes looking for a cash infusion.
Right now, the City and County of Denver is operating at Level Yellow on the dial, and with the new rules, restaurants (and bars that offer food menus) can serve alcohol until 1 a.m. For those establishments that have earned 5 Star Certification by adhering to specific health and safety measures (here s a list of all of them), last call moves to 2 a.m. Remember the good old days of staying out past school-night bedtime?
Arcana has been one of Boulder s best restaurants since it opened five years ago, but the past year was tough for the fine-dining eatery. Rather than give up completely, it became Arcana From Afar, offering takeout food on a pay-what-you-can basis. A number of pop-ups followed, featuring regional dishes from around the world and occasional guest chefs, including Modou Jaiteh, who presented the West African cuisine of his eatery, Jacaranda, which was also part of the original lineup at Rosetta Hall.
Arcana finally ceased operations entirely just over a month ago, but the creativity and quality the kitchen was known for won t come to an end. A remodel is in the works, and the restaurant will reopen in mid-spring as Supermoon, an Asian-themed eatery under chef Samuel McCandless, who has been with Arcana for the past two years. Expect to see Supermoon rise in May.