The Osprey Lounge

Small lounge in the stylish Osprey hotel has a great tapas menu and interesting cocktails to go with it. We enjoyed every dish, and our waitress was very helpful with suggestions. Great place for a romantic evening; leave the kids in the hotel room with pizza and a movie!

This teeny tiny restaurant is so surprisingly good and affordable for the Beaver Creek area. The service is spectacular and friendly. They have a great wine list and full bar. Try the asparagus and the crab cake, and don’t forget to turn the menu over. There’s more amazing items in the back. You really won’t be disappointed. This restaurant is so so so good.

This is a tiny, somewhat spendy but very comfy place to grab a beer or some small plates while skiing, or really anytime you’re at Beaver Creek. I’ve sampled a bite of the burger ($ 12), the wild mushroom quesadilla with cotija cheese ($ 8) and the truffle fries ($ 8). All were delicious and tasted indulgent, not like your typical ski fare. Perfect snacks that are shareable (we had a group of 5). They have a great beer selection (Stella drafts were around $ 6 I think) and top shelf spirits (Jamo shots for $ 8). Besides the intimate, warm feel of this lounge — with a long communal bar table in front of a fireplace that made for fun conversations between everyone, both strangers and friends — what made our experience here so wonderful were the funny, friendly and over-​the-​top accomodating servers. I felt catered to in the very best way — even with us being sweaty, rowdy and decked out in bulky ski gear as we all were. The menu features a bunch of my favorite tapas-​sized foods like fried asparagus spears, brussels sprouts topped with butter and cheese, crispy bean and oaxaca cheese tacos with avocado and crema, seared tuna, beet salad, shrimp and grits with jalapeño aioli, fried brie with jam and even a lamb gyro. They also feature a few types of steaks, seafood including scallops and snapper, salads, sandwiches, flatbreads and soups like tomato sage bisque and carrot-​ginger-​coconut cream. Damn, I can’t wait to go back! I’m drooling just thinking about it.