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STEPPING OUT
BOULDER - Back in the early 1990s, when my friend Anna was a hardcore vegetarian verging on veganism, she had a dilemma when going out to eat with her carnivorous friends.
It's not that Boulder didn't have plenty of choices for vegetarians. It's just that they were choices only a vegetarian could love.
"The restaurants would be all hippie-like, or they would have only one vegetarian entrée. I'd end up eating beans and rice a lot," Anna said. "There wasn't any nice place I could take people and still get a good meal for me."
Enter Leaf, the 21st century version of a vegetarian restaurant in Boulder. It's hip without being hippie and gourmet without feeling guilty. It specializes in organic, locally grown ingredients for everything from the artichoke po' boy to the vegan carrot cake with soy-cream icing.
Even Leaf's alcohol is pure. The wine list includes only organic, biodynamic or sustainably grown vintages, and the martinis feature house-infused mixes...