Tag: Food

La Plaza Marketplace – Aurora Colorado – March 21, 2026

15200 E Colfax Ave Aurora, CO 80011
https://www.laplazacolorado.com/mercado

Where Community Comes Together
At La Plaza Colorado, we bring together food, culture, and community in one vibrant destination. Explore 24 unique food kitchens serving authentic flavors, shop unique local vendors, enjoy live entertainment, and let the kids play in our three-story playground and arcade. Whether you’re here to eat, shop, or connect, La Plaza offers something for everyone.

New York Times Talks with Food Bank Recipients

speaker 12
There’s already people that have to decide between food and their medicine.

olivia natt
Have you ever had to make a choice like that?

speaker 12
A couple of times. A couple of times.

speaker 2
And it wasn’t for this food bank, here about two months ago, if it weren’t for this food bank, me and my little grandson would have starved for about 10 days. We ate mashed potatoes and macaroni for four days out of this food bank. And I wouldn’t have had nothing to eat with that little boy if I hadn’t’ve — and most of the time, I didn’t eat it all because I’d make sure he had something.

anna foley
I’m so sorry.

speaker 2
And yes, it’s very upsetting. You can understand that, right? And I think it’s a sad state of affairs when poor people that are not able to work anymore, and I worked, believe me, my whole life, can’t even get a way to eat.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Tens of millions of Americans depend on the food-stamp program known as SNAP. Without federal assistance, many of them do not know how they will provide for themselves or their families. “The Daily” visits one of the communities most reliant on food aid.

See also:
https://www.foodbankrockies.org/

Food insecurity is the lack of consistent access to enough nutritious food for an active, healthy life due to a lack of money and other resources. It can lead to reduced food intake, disrupted eating patterns, and severe consequences like hunger, poor health, and developmental issues, especially in children. It can be caused by factors like high food prices, unemployment, conflict, and climate change, and affects various populations disproportionately.

— Google AI

Proposition MM – School Meals

Surely we can all agree on this one?
byu/randytc18 inDenver

Darkstar197
As a beneficiary of reduced or free school lunch for most of my childhood and someone who hasn’t needed government subsidies since i graduated college.. I feel obligated to ensure the future generations never have to be food insecure. Yes from me.

MarionberryFew7660
I have no kids and, at 47 years old, will never have them. I still vote yes for every positive child-related proposition because I’m not a heartless degenerate

Ballotpedia:
Colorado Proposition MM, Tax Deductions and Revenue for School Meals Measure (2025)

The Colorado Tax Deductions and Revenue for School Meals Measure is on the ballot in Colorado as a legislatively referred state statute on November 4, 2025.

A “yes” vote supports lowering the state income tax deduction limits for taxpayers earning $300,000 or more from $12,000 to $1,000 for single filers and from $16,000 to $2,000 for joint filers, generating an additional $95 million annually for the Healthy School Meals for All Program.

A “no” vote opposes lowering state income tax deduction limits to provide an additional $95 million annually Healthy School Meals for All Program, thereby leaving in place the current limits of $12,000 for single filers and $16,000 for joint filers.

King Soopers in Denver – Which is the Most *Boujee*

Most Boujee King Soopers???
Ok, the difference between the Soopers on Mississippi and Havana and the Soopers on Yosemite and Bellview are worlds apart…

Mississippi and Havana being the red headed step child of the King Soopers empire.

In your opinion which Soopers location is the most boujee?

Bougie is a slang word that you hear in everyday conversations and in the media. noun: Someone who’s considered middle class yet wants to be upper class and is determined to live a wealthier, flashier, more lavish lifestyle (designer labels) Adjective: high-class, fancy, materialistic, snobby. – Google

Limited_turkey
The Hampden and University store is a world away from my store.

hettuklaeddi
Orchard and Holly is bougier

Optimal-Can4635
Live in DTC but I drive the extra distance specifically for that store. Just me and the rich boomers

Koomerthedawg
This is the answer. Spouses used to work they, they are the Soops poster child for the area. Corporate loved showing that store off.

iamgt4me
This is the answer. Doesn’t feel like you’re in America. It’s so peaceful and relaxing in that store.

muchmaligned
I’m in Federal Heights and most of the Soops near me are shitholes with rent-a-cops doing SWAT team cosplay. The Erie one is like 20 minutes north and it’s practically a Whole Foods.

queenrose
The one on 84th & Pecos barely even qualifies as a grocery store. Worst King Soopers I’ve ever visited

muchmaligned
I live across the street from that one and I only go if I need, like, one thing I don’t want to drive ten minutes for haha. Feels like a militarized zone.

bediger4000
Scary Soopers at 13th and Speer is the dodgiest King Soopers.

jonmorrie
I lived in the condos above it for a few years. Can confirm

SadRobotz
Hampden and University is pretty swanky

Gunnerx1337
What about the boujiest Safeway?

Dubayess
Oxymoron

Denver Food Recommendations – NYTIMES

Gift Link: 36 Hours Denver – NYTIMES

from reddit discussion on:

  • Room for Milly, in the Union Station neighborhood, has plush midcentury-style chairs and couches on which you can sample a sake or sangria and snack on caviar and truffle-flavored popcorn.
  • El Five, in the Lower Highland neighborhood, or LoHi, near downtown, is a tapas restaurant known for its matzo-ball-soup dumplings and spectacular fifth-floor outdoor-patio views of Denver’s skyline.
  • Little Man Ice Cream, underneath a distinctive three-story milk can, often has long lines for rich flavors like Space Junkie, a mix of raspberry, brownie bites and marshmallow swirl.
  • The Cooper Lounge, a second-floor cocktail bar in Union Station, offers great people watching, with views of the city on one side and the station’s Great Hall on the other.
  • Ultreia, also in the station, is a tapas fixture that combines comfort food with fast service.
  • Rise & Shine Biscuit Kitchen and Cafe, not far from Sloan’s Lake Park, is notable for its North Carolina-style biscuits of the day.
  • The Edgewater Public Market, one of many upscale food halls that have recently popped up in the metro area, is in Edgewater, a suburb just west of Denver, and includes Ethiopian, Asian and burger booths.
  • US Thai Cafe, also in Edgewater, is a no-frills Thai restaurant that nails the classics in a cramped-but-comfortable room.
  • Convivio Cafe in northwest Denver offers a chocolatado, an espresso drink with chocolate crumbles, befitting the co-owner Vivi Lemus’s Guatemalan heritage.
  • Denver Cat Company, a cat cafe in the Berkeley neighborhood, presents a relaxing way to pass an hour: meditatively scratching tiny ears.
  • Two Hands, along fast-developing Tennyson Street, is an Australian-style restaurant that crams fresh, healthy ingredients into satisfying bowls.
  • Gusto, near Sloan’s Lake Park, serves Italian dishes that include a peach-packed summer harvest salad and sausage-heavy Sicilian pizza.
  • Honey Hill Cafe is a convenient stop for coffee and pastry in the Park Hill neighborhood, before strolling to City Park.
  • Also in Park Hill, the deli at the rear of Spinelli’s Market offers a takeout meatball, red pepper and marinara sandwich and build-your-own options. Ask for marinated onions, and don’t forget your free piece of fruit.

The Origin of Coffee and the Legend of Kaldi

Many legends describe the discovery of coffee. One of the most popular is of an Arab goatherder named Kaldi who lived in the middle of the 9th century. Kaldi noticed that when his goats ate the red berries from one particular bush, they acted oddly; they seemed more frisky and frolicsome. He then took a chance and chewed some of the berries himself. When the result was a feeling of friskiness in himself, he took the news of the wonders of the coffee berries to his fellow tribesmen. Over the next 400 years people consumed coffee just as Kaldi had: Arabs simply chewed the coffee berries in order to get the stimulating effect.

Sleep Thieves
Stanley Coren

The myth of Kaldi the Ethiopian goatherd and his dancing goats, the coffee origin story most frequently encountered in Western literature, embellishes the credible tradition that the Sufi encounter with coffee occurred in Ethiopia, which lies just across the narrow passage of the Red Sea from Arabia’s western coast.
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In modern times, “Kaldi Coffee” or “Kaldi’s Coffee” and “Dancing Goat” or “Wandering Goat” are popular names for coffee shops and coffee roasting companies around the world. The biggest coffee chain in Ethiopia is called Kaldi’s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaldi