Juanitas

I visited Boulder for the first time in my life a couple of months ago. It was actually on accident. I was in Denver with a friend of mine. We were going to go skiing and flew into Denver to make the trip. We were having lunch in a local café when my friend Tom casually mentioned that his uncle lived in Boulder and he just realized how close it was to Denver. Well, naturally I thought this sounded like a preplanned set up but I wasn’t annoyed with my friend and actually supported the idea of visiting his uncle. I come from an extremely family oriented background and just support and enjoy relative connections and closeness when I see it in others.

So, Tom and I decided we would take an entire day, we were going to stay the night in Denver, and explore Boulder and visit his uncle. It turns out that Boulder is actually a really interesting and dynamic city. It is one of Colorado’s more progressive green cities and the entire town has a vibrant feel. This might be partly due to the fact that although there is a large population of families and couples that live there it is essentially a college town, or so I’ve heard.

We picked up Tom’s uncle and then had lunch at his favorite Mexican food place in town. One of the things I love about visiting people in cities that I’ve never before been to is having food at their favorite restaurants. This serves two purposes for me. One is that I like to explore new cities through their food and the other is the same though based on the individual. I’m terribly interested in what people eat and if they like it. It’s one of my personal obsessions I guess. And if you’re interested, I found out that Juanita’s Mexican Food in Boulder is absolutely fabulous. I had the chimichanga plato and the green chile sauce was delicious. Tom’s uncle had the chicken chipotle, which is one of his top two favorites. Tom had the fajitas and they really smelled and looked good. We enjoyed our meal so much that the following day we checked out of our hotel rooms and ate there again.

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