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Man v. Food

2010

Boulder

Reality / Unscripted

A grinning red-haired man with a mustache in a blue palm-print shirt holds a platter of golden pancakes in a restaurant kitchen.
Publicity photo for Man v. Food. Courtesy of Travel Channel. © Travel Channel, L.L.C. All rights reserved.
A grinning red-haired man with a mustache holds a plate of breaded cutlet, red cabbage and gravy and a frothy dark drink in a kitchen.
Publicity photo for Man v. Food. Courtesy of Travel Channel. © Travel Channel, L.L.C. All rights reserved.
A grinning red-haired man with a mustache in a blue print shirt holds out a large bowl topped with halved eggs, meat and greens.
Publicity photo for Man v. Food. Courtesy of Travel Channel. © Travel Channel, L.L.C. All rights reserved.
A red-haired man with a mustache in a floral shirt holds three blue enamel plates of tacos with green salsa in a restaurant kitchen.
Publicity photo for Man v. Food. Courtesy of Travel Channel. © Travel Channel, L.L.C. All rights reserved.
A grinning red-haired man with a mustache in a denim shirt and black apron holds a sandwich in front of racks of rotisserie chickens.
Publicity photo for Man v. Food. Courtesy of Travel Channel. © Travel Channel, L.L.C. All rights reserved.
A bakery case of glazed donuts and crullers labeled with small chalkboard signs such as Peach Cobbler, Blueberry and Coffee Heath.
Publicity photo for Man v. Food. Courtesy of Travel Channel. © Travel Channel, L.L.C. All rights reserved.

DIRECTED BY

Dan Kornfeld

STARRING

Adam RichmanCasey Webb

PRODUCTION TYPE

Reality / Unscripted

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Sharp EntertainmentTravel Channel

IMDb

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RELEASE DATE

June 16, 2010

FILMED IN BOULDER

Boulder supplied all three restaurants in the 2010 Boulder episode of Man v. Food. It is a modest credit, one half-hour of a long-running cable series, first shown on the Travel Channel on June 16, 2010. The centerpiece is the West End Tavern at 926 Pearl Street, where Adam Richman took on the Wing King Challenge, fifty wings in thirty minutes, in front of a cheering crowd. Westword reported that the tavern’s March 25, 2010 shoot ran from noon until after midnight, with the kitchen cooking extra wings for the cameras.

Richman also tried the Saddlebags, pancakes filled with bacon or sausage, at The Buff Restaurant, then at 1725 28th Street, and the mountain pie at Beau Jo’s on Baseline Road. The Buff has since moved across Canyon Boulevard, and Beau Jo’s has left Boulder. The revived series, hosted by Casey Webb, returned for a second Boulder episode, first shown in February 2022. The Sink on University Hill says it was his first stop.

ABOUT

Part travelogue and part endurance test, Man v. Food follows its host to a different American city in each half-hour episode as he samples the oversized and fiery specialties local restaurants are known for, then takes on an eating challenge at one of them. Adam Richman hosted the original Travel Channel run from 2008, and Casey Webb took over when the show returned in 2017. The 2010 Boulder episode pairs a Colorado mountain pie and stuffed pancakes with a bucket of fifty wings.

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