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: May 8, 2026
Photo Courtesy of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory
This week’s Foodie Friday is all about slowing down, treating someone you love, and finding an excuse to gather around good food. With Mother’s Day this weekend and spring in full swing downtown, there’s plenty worth craving right now.
If there’s one thing you don’t need to overthink this weekend, it’s brunch. Snooze has you covered with hot coffee, mimosas, stacked plates, and the kind of table you’ll want to linger at a little longer. Sometimes the best gift is simply showing up hungry.
For something sweet, Maisonette is rolling out Mother’s Day pastries that feel almost too pretty to eat. Almost.
Gemini is celebrating Mother’s Day with a full lineup of brunch and dinner specials on Sunday, May 10, alongside their regular menu. Expect seasonal spring flavors, bottomless mimosas, and a menu made for lingering a little longer over the table. Lunch highlights include sourdough pancakes with raspberry coulis and fresh berries, tortilla de papas with trout roe beurre blanc and spring peas, and a lump crab cake with herb aioli and fresh greens. Dinner leans into coastal flavors with dishes like tuna à la plancha with a black pepper and coriander crust, P.E.I. mussels in seaweed butter and white wine, and returning favorites that carry the celebration into the evening.
Creature Comforts Cafe is also bringing something special to the table with gluten-free matcha white chocolate truffles, a perfect little treat for gifting, sharing, or keeping all to yourself.
If your ideal celebration includes sushi, Blofish is always a solid move for fresh rolls and an easy downtown dinner vibe.
Over at Pizzeria Alberico, don’t miss the Buon Raccolto salad, which translates to “bountiful harvest.” Made with tomato water vinaigrette, frisée, little gem, heirloom cherry tomatoes, salad burnet, parmesan crisp, puffed buckwheat, tendril pea shoots, and avocado oil, it’s bright, fresh, and only available through May 31.
Looking for a full Mother’s Day outing? Stella’s Cucina is hosting a special Mother’s Day brunch perfect for celebrating the moms, mother figures, and loved ones in your life.
And for your caffeine fix, Boxcar Coffee Roasters just released their Kenya Karatu AA roast, featuring a light syrupy body, sparkling acidity, stone fruit notes, delicate herbal finish, citrus zest, and hints of lemongrass. It’s basically spring in a cup.
To end things on a sweet note, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is serving up Home Run Milk Chocolate Clusters: sweet, salty, crunchy, and impossible to stop at one.
From brunch tables to coffee runs and sweet treats downtown, there are plenty of ways to make the weekend feel a little special.
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.