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Where to Find Colorado’s Best Chocolate
Our guide to the very best locally made bars, bonbons, and more to buy for your sweetie (or yourself).Callie Sumlin, Denise Mickelsen, Patricia Kaowthumrong •
February 5, 2021
Editor’s note: This story was updated in early February 2021 to reflect business closures, changes, and new brands.
Chocolates are a foolproof Valentine’s Day gift, pleasing tastes both sophisticated and simple. But there’s a catch: It needs to be
good chocolate. In an age where bean-to-bar, ethically sourced, single-origin artisan chocolates reign supreme, those heart-shaped boxes of sugary truffles from the grocery store just won’t cut it. Here’s a handy guide to navigating just about all of the delicious, locally made chocolates on the market from sustainable bars to hand-painted truffles so you can score some real, er, brownie points.
Where to Get Bubble Tea in Denver and Beyond
The Front Range is awash with spots to drink sweet, creamy, chewy Taiwanese boba. Here are a few of our favorites.Callie Sumlin •
December 14, 2020
I first fell for boba (also known as bubble tea or pearl milk tea, that magical Taiwanese combination of tea, milk, ice, and chewy tapioca pearls) when I was in high school. Too young to visit bars, my friends and I would instead hang out at tea shops before going shopping for used CDs (an actual thing we all once did). What I always loved about boba shops in addition to the beguiling chew of the tapioca pearls sucked through those wide straws and the hit of caffeine and sugar in the milky tea was how welcoming those spaces were, providing a relaxing respite for playing board games or just hanging out.