There’s no place quite like Boulder’s oldest restaurant that opened up shop on University Hill in 1923. This year it’s celebrating 100 years of service in Boulder.
“Everyone has a story to tell about The Sink,” said Boulder filmmaker Bruce Borowsky in an interview with the Daily Camera.The front of the house at the iconic corner spot on University Hill is adorned with big-name autographs, vibrantly loud cartoon art and low ceilings that make for a unique experience.
It wasn’t until the next day, while walking around Boulder’s University Hill with her parents, that Angleton realized that The Sink was a restaurant.Legendary art by by late muralist Llloyd Kavich adorns every surface in The Sink restaurant on University Hill. The Sink is celebrating 100 years this year with various parties and the premiere of a documentary on the iconic spot.
“It was always really hard to study when I lived across from The Sink,” Angleton said. “There was always so much going on. I would always get distracted by all of the people coming and going, and find myself just gazing out the window, longing for a pint.”Angleton isn’t alone in her admiration for the iconic Boulder establishment. In fact, The Sink is so legendary, so beloved, that local filmmakers have created a film memorializing it.
In 1923, entrepreneur Leo Somers purchased the building and opened a European-style restaurant named Somer’s Sunken Gardens. “The Sink” was given to the restaurant by patrons, referring to the restaurant’s sunken fountain in the middle of the dining room. The rest, as they say, is history. However, the visit of all visits happened in 2012 — at least for co-owner Chris Heinritz — when former President Barack Obama famously made a surprise visit to the restaurant ahead of a talk at the University of Colorado Boulder.
And though the food alone at the restaurant is enough to attract presidential customers, what really makes The Sink a unique place in the Boulder community is its “vibe,” according to longtime Sink employee Chris Bohlen.Bohlen, who worked from the Sink from 1990 to 2001, remembers The Sink as the quintessential local watering hole — where anyone and everyone from all over town would come to keep warm under its low graffitied ceilings to weather those cold winter Colorado nights.
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