Foodie Friday
There's a good reason Bon Appétit called Boulder, America's Foodiest Town. This weekly blog will help you understand why! Every Friday, check out downtown's food scene and all the incredible opportunities available to tantalize your taste buds! Check out this list of restaurant specials and promotions compiled weekly - just for YOU!
Food-Related Events and Announcements: November 13, 2026
Happy Friday, Foodies! The Buffs are under the lights at Folsom tonight, and an 8:15 PM kickoff leaves plenty of time for dinner and a drink downtown before heading to the game. Get your crew together, put on your black and gold and make an evening of it. There are potstickers to share, burritos to smother and a few things worth putting on your calendar beyond tonight. Here’s what sounds good downtown this week.
A little early holiday shopping can help put dinner on someone else’s table. From November 13–23, the Savor Productions and Boulder Restaurant Alliance’s Buy One, Donate One campaign invites you to purchase a gift card directly from a participating restaurant, which will donate a gift card of equal value to Boulder Valley School District families experiencing food insecurity. Pick one up for the friend who always knows where to eat, or save it for your next dinner out. The goal is $100,000 in donated gift cards, and every purchase helps get there.
There’s still time for one more dinner at Centro before a new chapter begins. After 20 years on the West End of Pearl Street, Centro is closing November 14 to make way for a Big Red F concept, Altura Mountain Mexican, opening in early December. Stop in for a farewell meal and keep an eye out for a new menu focused on local, seasonal ingredients.
Before you head up to Folsom, stop by Illegal Pete’s and get your burrito Colorado-style, smothered in green chile and queso. Grab a drink, find a seat with your game-day crew and give yourselves time to eat before the cheering starts.
Start with a plate of potstickers at Zoe Ma Ma. Crispy on the bottom and filled with pork, shrimp, garlic chives and vegetables, they’re the kind of order you’ll want to count before agreeing to share. Don’t skip the spicy, house-made dipping sauce.
If you’re settling in for dinner at Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar, consider the Sea of Cortez flounder. Served with sunchokes, oyster mushrooms, farro, pine nuts, fresh herbs and mugolio, it gives you plenty of reasons to take your time between bites.
For something warm from the kitchen at Oak at Fourteenth, try the new fried falafel, served with mandarins and a fresh mint salad. Order a plate while you look over the rest of the menu. Dinner decisions tend to come a little easier once there’s food on the table.
A November evening is a good time for lasagna, and Pasta Press has a vegetarian version packed with greens. Pull up a chair and make that your dinner plan, especially if your plans so far have only gotten as far as “something warm.”
If a salad sounds good alongside your beer, Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery has you covered. The garden salad brings together organic mixed greens, cucumbers, grape tomatoes, red peppers, red onions and carrots. Add grilled chicken and settle in for a meal before whatever the rest of your evening holds.
Your morning coffee can come with a little savings at Ozo Coffee Roasters. Bring your own cup and take 25 cents off any drink, any day of the week. Put one by your keys tonight so you’ll remember it on the way out tomorrow.
The holidays are moving into Bohemian Biergarten starting November 20, when its Cheergarten pop-up returns with festive decorations and specialty holiday drinks. Pick a night, round up a few friends and give yourselves an excuse to catch up before everyone’s December calendar fills.
And here’s a dinner date to save: VINCA on Pearl is hosting Dine Out with Dobby on Friday, December 11. Owner Tomas met his dog, Dobby, through the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, and this evening is a way to give back. During dinner service, 25% of all dine-in food and beverage sales before tax will go to HSBV. Bring someone you’ve been meaning to have dinner with and raise a glass to finding a forever friend.
Ways to Help
Emergency Family Assistance Fund (EFAA) helps those in our community whose immediate needs for food, shelter and other basic necessities cannot be adequately met by other means, and supports their efforts toward financial stability or self-sufficiency. You can help them with a financial contribution, volunteering, or donating non-perishable food and cleaning supplies.
Emergency family assistance fund
Harvest of Hope Pantry's sole mission is food assistance. They offer clients a choice shopping experience where individuals select preferred foods within their shopping allowances. You can help them with financial assistance, volunteering or by hosting food drives.
Boulder Food Rescue aims to create a more just and less wasteful food system by facilitating the sustainable redistribution of healthy food that would otherwise be wasted to low-income communities, by bicycle. The best way to help them currently is to donate or volunteer.
Meals on Wheels Boulder provides nutritious meals and a daily well-being check to Boulder residents, regardless of age or income. The number one way to support them during this time is to contribute financially.