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Food Safety At Turley’s Part 2: Staff Training

Tweet Earlier this week I ventured to get a feel for practical food safety practices in a real restaurant.  Turley’s, an iconic Boulder, CO eatery known for its eclectic menu full of healthy eating and fantastic international flavors, was kind enough to spend some time talking to me about their food safety program. I sat [...]

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Chef Lon Symensma Nominated For Food & Wine’s People’s Choice Award

Tweet Vote For Chef Lon here! Chef Lon Symensma has a serious culinary pedigree.  That’s why Denver foodies were extremely excited when he decided to partner with Culinary Institute of America classmate Alicia Deters to create ChoLon, his first restaurant, ChoLon, in the LoDo area of downtown Denver. After stints at Buddakan & Spice Market [...]

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In The Field: Food Safety At Turley’s

Tweet Here at The Back Burner we have talked a lot about food safety.  It’s an ongoing project for any restaurateur, and also a potential matter of life and death for any foodservice business given the stakes if a food borne illness were to break out in your restaurant. So instead of sitting here in [...]

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Video: Sushi Zanmai Restaurant’s Turbo Air Mega Top Prep Table In Action

Tweet Our Product In Action series continues with Sushi Zanmai restaurant in downtown Boulder, CO.  Zanmai has some of the best sushi in Boulder and a great atmosphere – complete with weekend karaoke and killer happy hour specials.  If you’re ever there, be sure to check out the mussels appetizer and the firecracker sushi rolls.  [...]

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Some Great Recipes For Special Ties

Tweet The Back Burner is written by the employees and friends of Tundra Specialties in Boulder, CO.  And while we usually try to make this blog as informative as possible without imposing our brand on the information, sometimes there’s just going to have to be an exception. Don’t worry, we’re not going to suddenly turn [...]

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The New Age Of Restaurant Marketing: ModMarket

Tweet You’d think finding a place to eat lunch in a health nut haven like Boulder, Colorado that featured simple, all-natural ingredients made from scratch for a good price would be pretty easy.  Boulder residents Anthony Pigliacampo and Rob McColgan realized a couple years ago that unless they wanted to eat at Chipotle every day, [...]

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The Big Red F Restaurant Group: One Vision, Many Places

Tweet If you’re at all familiar with the favorite local haunts of Boulder and downtown Denver, then you probably know a Big Red F restaurant or two, even if that name doesn’t ring a bell.  Big Red F is a group of unique concepts started by Culinary Institute of America graduate, former Q’s Restaurant owner, [...]

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Boulder Spotlight: Chef Radek Cerny’s L’Atelier Restaurant

Tweet Chef Radek Cerny’s love of French cuisine is explained easily by using another of his passions for comparison: fast cars.  “Why buy a Fiat when you can drive  a Ferrari?” he asks without further elaboration.  And none needed.  A taste of his exquisite menu explains the rest. The celebrated chef and owner of the [...]

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Boulder Restaurants Getting Some National Respect

Tweet Boulder area restaurants are garnering some respect on the national scene, including a write-up in the Wall Street Journal.  As you may know, The Back Burner is based in Boulder, so we took it as a great sign that some of our favorite restaurants in our own backyard have been recognized on the national [...]

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Boulder Spotlight: The Kitchen Cafe’s Sustainable Restaurant Ethos

Tweet The Kitchen Café community bistro takes the community part of their name very seriously.  The Boulder, Colorado restaurant provides a simple, rustic setting where friends, families, and neighbors can gather to enjoy great tasting, unpretentious food and a world-class beer and wine list.  Meals can be ordered family style any day of the week [...]

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