What’s Bubbling in COMO?

Broadway Brewery Downtown staple Broadway Brewery has been serving locally sourced food and drink since 2009. Columbians have grown to love its seasonal, farm-to-table menu and creative variety of craft beers, including a core line of IPAs, wheats, and lagers intermixed with rotating new flavors.   “We are a smaller brewery, which has its challenges […]

The Art of Craft Beer

Bur Oak Brewing Co. Craig Stichter, President 8250 Trade Center Drive, Columbia, MO 65201buroakbeer.com When did you open? We started selling in May 2014. The company was founded Feb. 12, 2013. Who’s doing the brewing? Craig Stichter, president; Kraig Bridgeford, head brewer; Phil Fuemmeler, assistant Where should someone start? Our Trail Bender Wheat was designed […]

Comfort Food

Universal and intensely local, these meals are evocative of days gone by. Comfort food is both universal and intensely local. The chile-studded rice porridge that brings a nostalgic tear to a middle-aged man’s eye in Thailand would seem impossibly exotic in mid-Missouri. Serve that same man your grandma’s meatloaf, and he might think he’s been […]