Boulder bites: Apples, baseball and chocolate
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A sign announcing the arrival of Home Team Deli in the Alcove on Arapahoe. Photo: Mitchell Byars/Axios Boulder
The Boulder area's food scene is cooking up plenty to chew on this fall.
The big picture: A new sandwich shop is coming, a food truck has gone brick-and-mortar in Louisville and fall food events are filling the calendar.
Here's all the latest:
🌭 Home Team Deli, a Colorado sandwich chain, is planning a new location in the Arapahoe Alcove. An opening date hasn't been announced.
- The baseball-themed chain has a menu of hot and cold sandwiches, hot dogs, sausages, salads and wraps.
- The Boulder spot would be Home Team Deli's fourth Colorado location … now, if only we had a baseball team.
🥙 Boulder food truck Arepas Caribbean Food has gone brick-and-mortar with Tayrona, its new restaurant at 956 W. Cherry St. in Louisville.
- Founder Zuleyma Fernandez and her family started Arepas Caribbean Food at a local farmers market in 2015 before growing into two food trucks that often park at the Boulder Farmers Market.
- Tayrona expands with a mashup of Latin American and Mediterranean flavors, including arepas, Cuban sandwiches, gyros and other dishes.
🍫 Boulder-based Chocolove falls for fall with the return of its pumpkin-shaped chocolates, plus a new apple cider flavor made with milk chocolate, apple purée and cinnamon.
- The limited-time lineup also includes pumpkin spice milk chocolate and dark chocolate peanut butter, available online and at local grocery stores.
Events
🍎 AppleFest rings in the return of autumn this weekend at Boulder's Benevolence Orchard & Gardens, with Community Fruit Rescue hosting its annual harvest celebration from 3–6pm.
- The event features fresh cider pressing, live music, apple-themed food and activities celebrating Boulder's backyard bounty.
- Community Fruit Rescue harvests otherwise-unused local fruit and distributes it to food banks, community organizations and animal sanctuaries.
🍴 Longmont Restaurant Week returns Oct. 2–11, with nearly 30 local restaurants, breweries and bars offering limited-time menus and specials.
- Participants include The Post, 24 Carrot, Georgia Boys BBQ, Urban Field, The Roost, Swaylo's, Martini's Bistro and 300 Suns.
- New this year is an interactive map that lets diners build itineraries, complete challenges and enter to win prizes.
🍷 The Boulder Burgundy Festival celebrates its 15th year Oct. 24–25, bringing Burgundian winemakers, sommeliers and wine lovers together for the nonprofit festival.
- The event was founded by master sommelier and Boulder Wine Merchant owner Brett Zimmerman.
- Oct. 24: Burgundy Above Boulder features a Paulée-inspired lunch at Flagstaff House with rare and aged wines, 10:30am–2:30pm. $375.
- Oct. 25: Burgundy in Contrast features a six-wine tasting and seminar with Burgundian producers at the Academy at Mapleton Hill, noon-1:30pm. $175.
- Oct. 25: Burgundy in Full caps the weekend with 60+ wines, charcuterie and live music at the Academy at Mapleton Hill, 2-5pm. $125.