The Back Bowl Soup & Bistro

Nice friendly atmosphere with cooking to order. For breakfast French toast with maple syrup, strawberries and cream was delicious. Will set you up for a day on the slopes.

This place is great. The breakfast burrito, with green chili is great

Way too small. Does not recycle. All plastic bowls going in the garbage unless you order a bread bowl but it will probably be too soggy from soup. Overpriced but somewhat tasty. A bit disorganized with the service.

This is a great place to grab a great sandwich and dome really good soup. Best lunch spot in the base area. Find it on the end. 3 min walk. We’ll worth it. Not rediculously overpriced like the cafeteria. We ate there everyday of our ski trip.

We went here for lunch on our first trip to winter park, co. I had the specialized burger which was really good. We also had the baked potato soup that was good also. Kids had a burger and pb&j sandwich. Overall the food was good. The sitting area is small and it is usually full so a large group would have more trouble finding seating as we did (8 people in our party). It was cold so sitting outside was not a option! The food is a little expensive but you are at a ski resort so that’s expected.

Expensive? Hardly. The meal I ate at The Back Bowl would easily be $ 20 in NYC, but I guess I’m used to paying hiked-​up prices.
We tried out the Giant burger (with a side of pasta salad) and half of a K2 with baked potato soup.
The food was great, especially the burger. My mom enjoyed meeting Woody, the owner, on the chair lift — which prompted us to try out the place.
Friendly environment, good food, big portions. Can’t complain! We’ll be back the next time we ski WP!

Updating my review to 3 stars because Jodi reached out to me to hear my concerns. I appreciate a business owner that takes ownership of their business to make improvements. Hopefully some better customer service is on the horizon!

Most of Winter Park was closed for the season (including Back Bowl) when I came here. However, Woody was cleaning in the kitchen and whipped me up a great burger :) Looking forward to comming back during ski season to try the soups!

Love this place, great food, helped me stick to my diet, their meals can be made paleo friendly (bunless burger with lettuce) awesome staff (Jodi is fantastic) ate their 3 days in a row last time I was here last year, eating here 3 more times this trip too, will go back everytime I am in Winterpark, (helpful hint you can pick up the resorts wifi from here most times)

Over priced for quality of food. Mgr or owner was not personable and didn’t even bother to make any friendly friendly comment when delivering order. Put soup on table and just walked off. Really? This was a quiet day and you can’t listen to the sign by the register. «Be nice or leave.»

The food was pretty good, but way over-​priced. The woman behind the counter that helped us looked like the manager or owner and she was not very nice. Ironically, she had a sign by the cash register that says «Be nice or leave».

Went there for lunch today. The Cajun Clam Chowder (original) was an awesome compliment to the Atomic sandwich. My tastebuds are doing handstands 8 hours later! Quick service too.

Jody and her husband accommodated our ski club group by opening at 7am each day. They were amazing. The food was tremendous and it allowed us to have a great breakfast before our first tracks lesson at 8am each morning. Steps away from the Cabriolet.

If you have ventured into Winter Park to eat at the highly rated Pepe Osaka’s Fishtacos you may have noticed one big similarity with The Back Bowl — they share a chef! After a long morning of skiing (errr… mostly falling), my family and I walked quite the distance in ski boots to the little soup shop. Because it’s the farthest eatery, I think it keeps the big crowds away. They have more than just your run of the mill chicken soup or tomato; the varieties range from pork pozole to green chile to tomato KALE. My husband loved that the green chile tasted just like the one his dad makes at home. I also had the Never Summer sandwich, which was also very tasty.
My only negatives are the distance from the ski lifts (eh, not a big deal really) and the prices, but I hear that all the eateries are just as expensive. I realize that they are all paying for prime real estate though. I really enjoyed it overall, enough to go twice in one weekend.

Dont really know how the food is, but don’t pay attention to their website posted hours. They seem to open when they decide it is conveniant. Have tried three times, and even called ahead. No luck!

Horrible service, the two girls working were rude and have that undesired aloof Boulder look to them. Soup was watery and lacked taste. Food was not cheap either. My place is across the street, and I still will never return here.

Terrible. My sister and I went here for after ski lunch and were wildly disappointed. I understand that food on the mountain is often more than a little pricey but this was absurd. $ 11 dollars for half a grilled cheese and a tiny bowl of soup? Rip off.
I wouldn’t be so negative if the food was good. The soup was watery and bland and the grilled cheese wasn’t even cooked all the way. They also have signs all over the place bragging about how good it is. Bold faced lies.
There was one up side though… The employees were so sweet. They were Interested in our day and thanked us when we left.

Love the back bowl!
I grab lunch here whenever I have the time. (They are far from the ski lifts… Sometimes on a powder day I just don’t have the time.)
Every meal has been spot on. Always a great selection of meals. Soup is hot and perfect. Sandwiches are creative and well executed. Also love to grab a cheap beer here with lunch.
Usually best on the way out of the ski hill. Be careful because they may be sold out by the end of the day.
Well worth the walk in ski boots!

Went here at 6:30 last night. (Saturday). The resort had been very busy due to a special event. I walked in the door behind another family and heard the clerk telling them that the restaurant was trying to close. When asked if they could order and eat she reluctantly told them yes but acted put out at them. I overheard her say again how they’d been trying to close for an hour. No sign out front and front door was unlocked so I don’t know what she meant by «trying to close». Food was ok but nothing outstanding. Overpriced as usual for a resort. I’m a homeowner in some nearby condos but won’t be going back here. If they are making enough money to treat customers that way they don’t need my business anyway.

If it’s cold skiing in Winter Park skiing this is the place to go to warm your body up. I enjoyed the tomato basil soup warm and yummy. The Never Summer turkey sandwich with avocado is the perfect half to order when you get the soup and sandwich combo. Yes this place is the bomb as the line can be a long wait but it’s worth it. They even have a soup recipe in the cookbook– Ski Town Soups.
Tip– There isn’t much eating space but you can grab your lunch to go and sit by one of the gas firepits in the Village. A little warm soup and a fire is just what you need to get back out and conquer those black diamond runs.

Okay, so I should have taken note when after skiing on a Friday at 3:30pm this place was empty when ALL other restaurants in the Village had a wait. Staff needs much more training… they need a system at the very least because this is how it went…
We walk in and think it’s closed because no one is inside. We are directed to soup choices on a board. We choose 2 kids meals and 2 bowls of soup for adults. Kids meals are posted to come with milk or soda. Order milk but are told they are out so we go for soda. No total. we are told we pay later. So we sit, 5 mins later someone yells out the kitchen asking who ordered the hot dog and what do you want on it? So we yell back the answer from our seats. Another few minutes and lady comes out to say they only have enough for one bowl of a soup so who wants it? I pass on my soup so my daughter can have hers and am told that she will just bring two spoons instead??? No thanks. I’ll pass. But what about the sodas, it’s been 10 minutes? … Oh, you go get them yourself. Oh, Ok…“no ice in the soda machine” I repeat as if there is anyone else I am speaking to. Oh and no straws. Ok. So where is the total? You come back up and wait until they are no longer busy behind the counter to ring you up. Very chaotic.
And while seated a group of 3 come in, look around for a bit and are never greeted. They finally just leave. The owner needs to do something fast. The soup may be good but this place needs someone that can run a service counter like a machine. I can’t imagine what it would have been like with more customers inside.

I built this place up in my mind — probably too much so. Who doesn’t lust after an amazing bread bowl of hearty soup for lunch after a solid morning on the slopes? So needless to say, I was salivating before I’d even taken my board off.
I’m not sure why I was surprised at it being pretty crowded, but I was. My soup fantasy involved quietly sipping on a hearty chowder by a roaring fire. That did not happen. There were no seats left inside, so we sat outside (it was chilly, but not unbearable). Our soup took a while to arrive — I guess dipping a ladle into a pot is more delicate an art than I thought. It also proved to be very beneficial that we were hungry since the soup cools off pretty quickly when it’s below 30 °F outside — of no fault of the restaurant. The soup we had was decent but nothing to write home about.
And riddle me this — who serves soup out of a bread bowl that isn’t sourdough?! Granted I’m not even a huge sourdough fan, but the shear physics of the concept of using plain white bread loaves left me puzzled. The bottom of the bowl became a gooey, mushy mess and if you order a thinner soup, you’re bound to spring a leak before you even hit the bottom of the bowl unless you really chow down. So less talking and dreaming of a roaring fire… get to town draining that bowl before you end up with a mess on your hands.