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Food

Cooking with Scotty: How to pour a bowl of cereal

Cooking with Scotty: How to pour a bowl of cereal

Scott Powell March 31, 2020

Well folks, it’s finally happened. You’ve dreaded this day your whole life. You've lost hours upon hours of sleep lying awake in bed, drenched in sweat, anxiously awaiting its most dreadful and terrifying...

The carnivore omelette from the Back Porch Café. (Ian Fuster | The Collegian)

Top 5 omelets in FoCo to upgrade your most important meal

Scott Powell March 11, 2020

Life is too short to be wasted eating breakfast one section at a time. This is America after all, where taking time to enjoy life is an act of treason on par with disliking cheeseburgers or peeing on a...

Mainline Ale House revealed the front of their building July 26. Photo By Logan Martinez

New Old Town restaurant and nightclub to open soon

Greta Nelson-Bechtold March 4, 2020

Get your taste buds ready for a fresh new taste coming to Old Town this spring. Rove, a restaurant, and Element, a nightclub, are moving into the space once occupied by Mainline Ale House in Old Town. Executive...

A sushi roll at Mi Sushi on Prospect. (Brooke Buchan | The Collegian)

Top 5 sushi rolls to brighten your mood

Scott Powell March 4, 2020

Apart from a 10-foot-high red velvet cake exploding with fireworks and topped with a life-sized fondant tiger, there is perhaps no food more colorful or more awe-inspiring than sushi. With its rainbow-colored...

Top 5 FoCo hot wings to ignite your taste buds

Top 5 FoCo hot wings to ignite your taste buds

Scott Powell February 26, 2020

Chicken wings. Where would we be without them? Probably a couple of spots lower in the ranking of the world's most obese countries. But what fun is life when it isn’t fueled by saturated fat and hydrogenated...

Lemongrass Seafood Noodle Soup from Young's Vietnamese Cafe.

5 most heavenly Fort Collins soups to slurp on

Scott Powell January 26, 2020

Nothing satisfies that “I want to eat, but I’m not actually hungry” feeling quite like a nice piping hot bowl of soup. This sodium deluge is perhaps one of the most versatile foods in the world,...

The Gold Leaf Collective interior. (Brooke Buchan | The Collegian)

4 FoCo restaurants to cure cottonmouth

Elena Waldman January 21, 2020

Editor's Note: The Collegian does not condone or promote the illegal consumption of marijuana for individuals under 21 years old.  As far as college town activities go, getting stoned and going out to...

The simple chocolate mug-cake recipe rises in the microwave and in total only requires cake mix, water, a small amount of counter space, and a microwave. Dec 10. (The Collegian| Alyssa Uhl)

How to make a four-course meal in your dorm room

Scott Powell December 11, 2019

Of all the marvelous machinery introduced in the 20th century — personal computers, the internet, digital watches — the microwave oven is by far the most impactful. How did we live without it? Did...

Employee Eryn Coyle pours a juice mix known as the Toxic Flush, composed of parsley, spinach, apple, lemon, and ginger, into a cup behind the counter at Néktar Juice Bar. Opened just over a month ago in Fort Collins, the franchise originated in Texas in 2010. Their mission is to reinvent the juice and smoothie world, similar to the way the coffee industry expanded in the 1990s. (Brooke Buchan | The Collegian)

Restaurant review: Nekter Juice Bar doesn’t impress

Autumn Sorrentino December 4, 2019

Nekter Juice Bar's ethos is as follows: no artificial sugar, no fake ingredients, no toxins (whatever those are), and as I've found, no fun.  Nekter Juice Bar began in 2010, with its first shop in Costa...

Harbinger coffee was founded in 2012 by Jonathan Jarrow and now has two locations in the Fort Collins area. Oct 27. (Alyssa Uhl | The Collegian)

A caffeine addict’s guide to Fort Collins

Lauryn Bolz October 29, 2019

Do the magic beans have you hooked?  As the semester heats up and the weather cools down, there are plenty of local coffee roasters and baristas to fulfill your caffeine needs. They also provide a cozy...

Social is a cocktail bar and restaurant that provides a classy environment and a wide variety of choices from drinks to food. (Matt Begeman | Collegian)

4 bars to treat your family to a sophisticated night out

Elena Waldman October 2, 2019

For some students, the football-focused Homecoming hijinks at Colorado State University aren’t that appealing. In fact, sometimes the best place to take your family is one of Fort Collins’ eccentric...

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