Slow cheese: Taste beer and cheese at Slow Food Boulder’s event 2-4 p.m. May 27. Justin Trosclair, cheesemaker at Haystack Goat Dairy, and Jim Homer, certified beer judge, will talk about pairing brews with goat cheese in Haystack founder Jim Schott’s backyard in Niwot. Slow Food members, $25, non-members $30. Bring a lawn chair. Send a check by Thursday to Slow Food Boulder, P.O. Box 991, Niwot, CO, 80544 to hold your space (include your e-mail on the check, please). | Questions and RSVPs to slowfoodboulder@yahoo.com | Kristen Browning-Blas
Handle Bar & Grill: There’s nothing quite like having a local place where you and whoever else is around (spouse, kids, couch-surfers) can stumble into once a week for an easy, affordable supper. The Handle Bar & Grill is a textbook example: Inexpensive but yummy burgers, big salads and cold draft beers. Plus decent weekend breakfasts. | 305 S. Downing St. at East Alameda Avenue; 303-778-6761 | Tucker Shaw
Chef Jimmy’s Bistro & Spirits: The next three hours are gonna be ugly: You’ll be crammed into an inhumanly small airplane seat beside some oversized dude with a really bad cold, and all you’ll get is a plastic cup of Diet Coke and a packet of barely recognizable “snack mix.” Be prepared: Fortify yourself with a Bloody Mary (and a surprisingly good rib-eye) at Chef Jimmy’s. | Denver International Airport, Concourse A | Tucker Shaw
