The 21 Essential Restaurants in Boulder, Colorado

"Somer’s Sunken Gardens opened in 1923, and the nickname “the Sink” was coined shortly after in reference to its fountain. The 100-year-old pizza-burger-beer joint once employed Robert Redford as a server, and customers have included President Obama (who ordered a pizza topped with pepperoni, Italian sausage, onion, and green pepper), Anthony Bourdain, and Guy Fieri, all seated amid the restaurant’s famously graffitied walls. The Sinkburgers are made with locally sourced grass-fed beef, pizzas are known for their “ugly crust,” and the Buff Mac, topped with Buffalo chicken tenders, blue cheese crumbles, and scallions, is the stuff of legend." - Rebecca Treon, Josie Sexton, Ruth Tobias, Nisa Sedaghat