🍔 Boulder’s Best Burgers — The Results Are In!
🍔 Boulder’s Best Burgers — Your Votes Decide
Happy Monday Boulder! 🌞🧩🎉
Ben here. Boulder actually showed up for top 5 burgers. Thank you. My dignity appreciates it. 😂
So instead of overthinking things, we’re going straight with your rankings — the real, community-powered Top 5 Burgers in Boulder.
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🍔 Boulder’s Best Burgers — Final Rankings (By Your Votes)
🥇 1. Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery — 25%
Your top vote-getter and a Boulder institution. No-frills, funky, and home to patties that taste like someone in the kitchen truly believes in world peace. Legendary fries. Even more legendary vibes.
🥈 2. Wild Pastures Burger Company — 20%
A fan favorite for regenerative, grass-fed, clean-as-it-gets ingredients. The burgers are juicy, simple, and incredibly satisfying. Your votes + their Google love = easy #2.
🥉 3. River and Woods — 15%
Wildly creative comfort-food twists in a cozy cottage setting. Their burgers hit that sweet spot between “elevated” and “I would like another one immediately.”
⭐ 4. Dark Horse — 15%
A chaotic, glorious, decades-old Boulder icon. Every square inch is covered in memorabilia, and every burger tastes like late-night college nostalgia. A must-visit at least once — preferably twice.
⭐ 5. The Sink — 10%
Historic, loud, graffiti’d, and famous for good reason. Presidents eat here. Celebrities eat here. Every CU freshman eats here. It belongs on every Boulder burger list forever.
☕ Next Up: The Best Coffee in Boulder (Round 1!)
Our burger showdown was fun…
but now we’re stepping directly into Boulder’s true battleground:
Coffee.
The city runs on it.
The baristas have opinions.
And I fully expect inbox chaos on this one.
🎶 What’s Happenin’ Boulder 🎭
Tuesday, December 2
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Local Happenings
Boulder Cuts Greenhouse Gas Emissions Nearly 50% Since 2005
Boulder’s 2024 emissions inventory shows community-wide greenhouse gases down 48% since 2005, driven largely by cleaner electricity and rising EV adoption.
Boulder is seen as a national climate leader — but hitting its 2030 and 2035 goals will require faster reductions, especially in natural gas use.
2024 emissions: 1.12M metric tons, down 8% from last year.
On-road transportation emissions down 59% since 2018.
Building electricity emissions down 47% thanks to Xcel’s cleaner grid.
Natural gas in buildings now 28% of total emissions — and only down 8% since 2018.
65% of emissions come from building energy use; 33% from transportation.
To meet 2030 and 2035 targets, Boulder needs to cut emissions by ~10% per year — double the recent pace. Expect a major push toward electrifying homes, phasing out gas, and exploring district-scale heating systems.
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Until Next Time, Boulder 💛
Thanks for being the city that actually votes in polls.
Now let’s see those caffeine opinions — I know Boulder has them.
See you Wednesday!
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Hit reply with your predictions (or your favorite cappuccino in town).
I read every message.
— Ben
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