I currently live in Dallas, Texas, but I am going to be moving to Boulder within the next few months. I am going to be visiting to have a look around in about 3 weeks so I was wanting to know a few opinions from you guys:
1) Where are some good places to eat, especially mexican food?
2) I have found a few apartments online, but I wanted to know what apartments you guys thought were "nice"? What about Habitat Apartments?
3) Where are all the kick ass roads!?!
4) Where is a good bar to get tanked!?!
5) What are some good local beers?

Seeing as I have never lived up there, your opinions are greatly valued! I think that the only thing I am going to miss about Texas is Shiner Bock and Cobb Tuning, but I am sure that you guys have good bock beers up there. I suppose when I get there and the weather permits, I will ask you guys about hiking and camping, but first thing first. :)
Later,
The Rev
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Coming from Dallas(heh.. i lived in Plano too), even the best Colorado Mexican food won't do it for you. Trust me, I've been looking for 4 years now.

As for apartments, I live in Colo Spgs, where everything is nice and cheap and I don't even want to think about what rent would be like in Boulder.

Colorado has a ton of microbrews, Fat Tire probably being my favorite. But there are big and small brewpubs alike all over the place. And Boulder is packed with a bunch of nice bars. I hardly get up that way, but I've been to a couple whose names escape me at the moment.

-jay

Get ready to dig deep for the rent. Real deep. My recommendation is to get a place just outside of Boulder. Look in:

* Louisville
* Superior
* Lafayette
* Broomfield
* Longmont

If you restrict your search to the Boulder area, you will be paying quite a bit every month for a place to live. Example - I looked at a 3 bed, 2 bath house in Lafayette that was $1400. It was a 30 year old house in a crappy neighborhood. Apartments are going to be similarly inflated. Cheers.

-Diz

Originally posted by The Reverend
I currently live in Dallas, Texas, but I am going to be moving to Boulder within the next few months. I am going to be visiting to have a look around in about 3 weeks so I was wanting to know a few opinions from you guys:
1) Where are some good places to eat, especially mexican food?
5) What are some good local beers?
being originally from TX I'll tell you that no Colorado Mexican food will compare to the stuff you can get in TX.
there are many micro-breweries in CO. Most are good, but some are total crap. Since I'm in Ft. Fun I'm a bit spoiled with New Belgium and Odells :D
I think that the only thing I am going to miss about Texas is Shiner Bock...
ROFLMAO :lol: Shiner Bock is CRAP :p ;)

No way.. I think Shiner Bock is more of an institution than just good beer. I miss it too.

If it makes you feel any better, you can get it in Colorado.

Uhrm, I moved here from Atlanta where the Mexican food and the Beer BOTH suck- you guys are nuts. :D There is a place called "Las delicias" on East 17th street downtown which is one of my fave Mexican joints. No, its not exactly Boulder but who cares - you gotta drive to Denver once in a while. There is also a place across the st. from the Brown Palace downtown called the "Trinity Grille" which is not Mexican as such, but they do make a mean bowl of New Mexico Green Chile soup.

Roads - CO 103 over Squaw pass - twisty, straight up and down, incredible views, and it actually goes somewhere - from Georgetown to Evergreen. There's also the road that leads from Morrison up into the hills - forget the name of it - very entertaining though.

You SO dont want to try to rent a place in Boulder unless you are independently wealthy. Try Lafayette/Louisville or Golden. Personally I like Golden better than anything up that way - it feels like a real town.

I like SingleTrack and Fat Tire ambers myself, although I make my own beer now (There are a number of excellent brewers' stores here) and anything else is second best.

Welcome to CO Rev,

JaMa

Phast: Speaking of Mexican food, I've been looking for some good places recently. Anyway, I haven't been there in a few years, but last time I went to Senor Manuels on N. Nevada was pretty good. That place is always packed too. Watch out for the 6" high (I'm not kidding) speedbumps. My stock accord scraped on them. I heard Amanda's Fonda is pretty good too. But I've never been there.
As for Boulder I haven't lived there in like 9 years, but it's a college town full of hippies and yuppies. Basically, there is a pretty good bar wherever you go and as for food I dont remember any specific places and even if i did they are probably closed by now. Best road for some spirited driving, if you can keep from getting hit by crazy Mom-weilded SUVS, is up flagstaff. Just head west towards the mountains up near chatauqua park. Or however you spell it.

...and the Beer BOTH suck- you guys are nuts.

BTW - Never, EVER tell people from CO that their beer sucks.(Coors & Bud excluded) This is the most efficient way to receive a gang beating. ;)

Originally posted by phast
No way.. I think Shiner Bock is more of an institution than just good beer.
I bet you like Coors Light too :p :lol:

Coors light is good stuff, cheap and it tastes like water, unbeatable combo.

Nick C.

Boulder is expensive! I lived there a couple years and I've been in Longmont since then. I think you'll be sad with Habitat.

Drop me an email or something we can chat.

There's great mexican food here in Longmont!

Cheers!

Hey man - the beer here rules (maybe not the coors stuff) but everything else rules. Atlanta was a very, very bad place for beer - the home of bud light in the can (Yeesh)

JaMa

What's the deal with everyone tearing on the cheap beer? My fav is Busch light, now that is good cheap beer! If I have to get all fancy schmancy I'll drink hefeweizen. Don't bash cheap beer, sometimes it's all we can afford. :lol:

Nick C.

I am old enough and fat enough to be picky about things like beer - BUT when I want cheap beer the cheapest I usually get is Rolling Rock. Good ole Pennsylvania swill.

JaMa

I would have to say, that to get drunk, cheap beer gets the job done just like other beer. Other than that, I like to enjoy the beer, so I tend to stay away from the bad stuff. As far as Shiner goes, there is no other beer I would rather be with while floating down a river in a tube. :)
In any case, I really apperciate the info from you guys. I cant wait to get there and actually see some snow, although that means that I am going to have to learn to drive on it. :)
Thanks All,
The Rev

Benny's has awsome mexican food and very economically priced too. It's somewhere in Denver. I'm moving to CO(denver) in about 2 months also.

Hey Rev,
Where exactly do you live in Plano? I lived off Parker and Roundrock for like 10years when I was growing up there. Graduated PSHS in 95.

I live at Spring Creek and Ohio, but I work off of Walnut Hill and 75. Guh, the drive is killing me right now. I hate the burbs because of Plano now, everything is so cookie-cutter look alike. If I were to stay here, I would have to move back into the city where everything is. Wow, so were you here for the herion years? I heard it was really bad in the mid-late 90's, but it is supposed to be better now.
Later,
The Rev

Hello, well there really aren't alot of GOOD mexican food in Boulder. The few nice places I have been in Boulder are "Cancun" (on 30th and arapaho) and "Juanitas"(on pearl street). Another nice place to eat is the Zolo grill on 28th and Arapaho, kinda a southwestern style to it but very tasty! Ther are also alot of pretty good Japanese food places on pearl st. (hapa, japango). There is alot of good food in boulder though.

The good roads I would say are: Flagstaff road ( just go straight up basline road west from 36. Left hand canyon, on the north end of boulder on broadway up Lee hill road. And many more....

Good places for beer are: Walnut brewery, BJ's, Mountain sun, and Oasis are the good breweries. My favorite beer would have to be the java porter at mountain sun when it is on the nitro tap!!

Welcome.

...As far as Shiner goes, there is no other beer I would rather be with while floating down a river in a tube...

Make's me lonely for Texas again. Transplanted here 11 years ago and the only rivers here to do that in will leave you upside down in your inner tube after the second beer :D

Larry

I just moved back to Oakland after 5 years in Boulder. It is a little more expensive, but Boulder is the only place in Colorado that I'd live (bring on the flames:)). You can get to the bars any night on a bus from just about anywhere in town, therefore no worries about running into johhny law. Flagstaff is a great road to drive, as well as sunshine canyon and four mile canyon (neither are too hard to find). The food issue has already been mentioned, SuperFreq pretty much covered that as well as where to get beers. You'll have a great time in Boulder, lots to do and you're not stuck driving up and down highway 36 (which is some of the worst traffic I've ever seen, and I'm from the home of traffic). Either way, you'll have a great time and the Suby scene is great.

-Brian
(time to get some more coal;))

Flagstaff isn't the best road to drive because you have to watch out for bicyclists and runners, and it's a pretty narrow road. However, once you get up past the last scenic overlook, the rest of the drive to the reservoir is killer. Anyway, I much prefer the drive to Estes Park.

Someone once told me that Colorado has more micro brews than Germany. Whether that's true or not, there are plenty to choose from, and I find good ones I've never heard of all the time. Just stay away from the crap beer they call Coors. Only in Denver would you be able to buy it at "Octoberfest". Oh, the humanity!

-Chris