The Broadmoor Restaurants: We Tried (Almost) All of Them

Planning a trip to The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs? If so, you’ve probably scrolled the list of 20 Broadmoor restaurants, cafes and lounges drooling over the too-good-to-be-true menus. It’s a little overwhelming, especially if this is your first trip to The Broadmoor.

The real question isn’t “is the food good at the Broadmoor”? Because, I can answer that one for you now. It is. It really, really is.

The reality is you only have so many dinners on your trip, and some of these meals can get pretty pricey.

So which Broadmoor restaurants deserve your limited dinners and budget, and which ones can you skip? The last thing you want to do is blow one of your nights, and a chunk of your budget, on an overpriced dinner that turns out just okay.

Dining at The Broadmoor

The Broadmoor is the longest-running Five-Star, Five-Diamond resort in the country and dining here is its own experience. You could eat every meal on property for a week and never repeat yourself. From a jacket-required dinner at the Penrose Room, to fish and chips at a 19th-century English pub, to coffee and pastries from a French patisserie.

We’ve stayed at the Broadmoor four times. Over those trips, we’ve made it our mission to eat at nearly every restaurant on the property. (We only missed one) I’ll be sharing where we picked for our anniversary dinner, what we think about dining service at the pool, and why we visit Cafe Julie’s at least twice a day.

Our very favorite place to eat on the entire property? It might not be the one you’d expect. Spoiler alert: It’s a bar.

This is the honest dining guide I wish I’d had before our first trip to The Broadmoor: where to splurge, where to save, what to order, and which spots to skip so you don’t waste a single dinner. Whether you’ve got two nights or a full week, I’ll help you spend them well.

The Best Broadmoor Restaurants at a Glance

Need a quick guide to which restaurants at The Broadmoor I recommend?

• Best for a Special Occasion: The Penrose Room
• Best for Date Night: Ristorante del Lago
• Best Cafe: Cafe Julie’s
• Best Casual Lunch: Golden Bee
• Best for Cocktails: The Hotel Bar

Do You Have to Be a Hotel Guest to Eat at the Broadmoor?

No. You don’t have to be staying at the Broadmoor to eat at most of its restaurants. The restaurants are open to the public, not just hotel guests.

The one exception is The Grille at the golf club. It’s the only restaurant on property reserved for overnight guests and club members.

Visitor parking is $6 per half hour and is located near Broadmoor Hall in front of the resort.

The Broadmoor Dining Dress Code

The Broadmoor is a luxury resort, and the dress code is part of how it keeps that elegant feel. Don’t let it stress you out, though. I break down the whole resort-wide dress code in my Broadmoor review, but for dining, here’s what you actually need to know. The restaurants fall into four levels, from poolside-casual to jacket-required.

Recreation Wear is the most relaxed, and it’s exactly what it sounds like: your pool, tennis, and golf clothes. Bermuda-length shorts, pool wear with a cover-up, athletic wear, and athletic or soft-spike golf and tennis shoes. Perfect for the Lakeside Pool Cafe. Not your dinner look.

Casual Dress is the nice-but-easy lunch tier. For men, a collared shirt is suggested but not required, with dressy denim or Bermuda shorts. Skip the athletic wear, pool attire, and hats for guys.

Dressy Resort is where most of the Broadmoor’s restaurants land, so this is the one to pack for. Men need a collared shirt, and a sport coat or blazer is a nice touch (not required) with slacks, dressy denim, or Bermuda-length shorts. For women, think a dress or cocktail attire. No athletic wear, no sportswear, no pool attire, and no hats.

The Penrose Room is in a class of its own, and it’s the fanciest room on the property. Ladies, wear a dress or a dressy pants outfit. Men and boys 12 and up need a jacket, with slacks or dressy denim only. And they mean it: a family walked in as we were leaving, not one of the guys had a jacket, and the staff was quietly fitting them all with loaners. So pack the jacket, or plan on the loaner rack.

The Broadmoor Restaurants

The Penrose Room

CUISINE: Contemporary Fine Dining
PRICE: $$$$
DRESS CODE: Jacket required, cocktail attire (the resort’s strictest tier)
RESERVATION: Essential, book a couple months out

I didn’t know the Penrose Room existed until I started planning where we’d eat this trip. We don’t do fancy date-night dinners very often, so when I found out The Broadmoor’s most upscale restaurant had reopened after being closed for several years, I booked it for our anniversary dinner.

Spoiler alert: It exceeded every single expectation.

The restaurant sits on the top floor of the South Tower and is designed to reflect the Penroses and their love of travel. It’s like old world glamour meets modern sophistication with warm wood paneling, curved velvet banquettes, and brass accents, all kept clean and current instead of stuffy.

Even the plates are custom, honoring Julie Penrose’s love for china and made for the Broadmoor by the Italian porcelain house Ginori 1735.

While you’re waiting for your table, take some time to look at the display cases filled with the Penroses’ actual belongings like Spencer’s top hat and pith helmet, Julie’s jade vases and jewelry from Asia, as well as sepia photos of the couple with their daughter at the Egyptian pyramids.

Windows wrap the back of the dining room, looking out over Cheyenne Canyon and up the mountain. Our reservation was for 6:30, so when we first sat down, the blinds were pulled to block the direct light of the setting sun. I was worried we’d finish dinner before they ever went up. We didn’t.

When the sun finally dropped behind the mountains and the staff raised the shades, you could literally hear everyone sigh.

If you want to take advantage of that amazing view, try a reservation right around sunset. If you book too early, you’ll eat with the shades down and miss the reveal. I can’t promise you a window table, but at our seating, those were the only ones filled.

A few dishes here come with a full performance, and the tables around us ordered the tableside Caesar Salad and the Baked Alaska (which they set on fire). But the real show was the tableside Manhattan I ordered to celebrate our anniversary.

The bartender rolled over a full bar cart and chilled the glass with dry ice while she built the cocktail to suit my exact tastes. It was a splurge, but it was worth every penny, and honestly more of a spectacle than the flaming dessert next to us.

For dinner, Jason had the Penrose Room French Onion Burger and said it was the best burger he’s ever had. I ordered the Smoked Risotto ai Frutti di Mare with Dungeness crab, Maine lobster, and clams. For dessert we had the Strawberry Paris-Brest, also built tableside, and it was so good.

The Penrose Room has the strictest dress code on the property. Men are required to wear a jacket, and for women I’d go with a dress or an elegant pants outfit. I’d packed a sundress for our dinner. But I found a handmade silk dress from the 1960s in a vintage store in Old Colorado City and knew she needed a place to go, and The Penrose Room was perfect.

Our Take on The Penrose Room: This is THE luxe special-occasion spot at the Broadmoor, and I can’t recommend it enough. If you’re celebrating an anniversary, proposal, milestone birthday, or just the fact that you’re on vacation without the kids, book a table at the Penrose Room.

Summit

CUISINE: Contemporary American
PRICE: $$$+
DRESS CODE: Dressy Resort
RESERVATION: Recommended

Summit is another splurge-worthy spot at the Broadmoor, but this one isn’t in the main building. It’s over at the Event Center and Conference Area, a short walk down the drive, or the concierge can call a shuttle. Unless someone in your group has a mobility issue, I’d just walk. You’ll probably get there faster on foot.

We weren’t especially hungry after lunch at Swirl on our Manitou Springs day trip, but we still wanted to try Summit. Our reservation just barely landed inside Happy Hour, so we ordered the Charcuterie and Two Glasses of Wine special and added the Eagles Nest Ranch Wagyu Meatballs. The meatballs were amazing. Get them.

The dress code is a little more relaxed than the Penrose Room, but Summit still delivers on upscale food and service. The table next to us spared no expense, opening with several $350 bottles of champagne. Yes. That’s right. $350 per bottle. I wanted to ask if they could adopt me.

The room is beautiful and elegant, and the service was every bit up to Broadmoor standard. The only thing (and I mean the only thing) I didn’t love: it felt like we could have been at any upscale steakhouse in any major city. It didn’t have the personality we loved at the other Broadmoor restaurants.

Our Take on Summit: We really enjoyed Summit, and everything we tried was excellent. We just preferred the vibe at the other restaurants on property. To be fair, we only had appetizers, so we didn’t get the full experience. I’d go back for a full dinner.

Ristorante del Lago

CUISINE: Italian
PRICE: $$$
DRESS CODE: Breakfast: Casual / Dinner: Dressy Resort
RESERVATION: Recommended

Ristorante del Lago is about as close to Italy as you’ll get without booking a flight. It’s an open-kitchen concept, and a lot of the ingredients are imported straight from Italy. It sits in the lobby of the West Tower, inspired by the villas of Lake Como, and looks out over Cheyenne Lake through floor-to-ceiling windows that run the whole way across.

This was one of the meals I was most excited about before the trip, and it delivered. We started with cocktails in the Ristorante del Lago bar before moving into the dining room. A couple next to us ordered dinner right there at the bar, so if you don’t have a reservation, you can still get a great meal.

Jason ordered the Carne Pizza, piled with prosciutto, house-made sausage, and fresh mozzarella (onions held, as usual). I started with the Heirloom Tomato e Stracciatella, a whipped burrata with fresh basil and heirloom tomatoes. Then, I had the Sweet Pea Agnolotti, a stuffed pasta with sugar snap peas, ricotta, lemon, and mint under a basil pesto. Everything tasted incredibly fresh.

Ristorante del Lago also does a traditional Italian aperitivo, cocktails and wine with light snacks in the late afternoon. It runs 3 to 5 p.m. daily with a simplified menu of antipasti, cheeses, salumi, and pizzas.

The staff was slammed the night we were there, and our server forgot a wine I’d wanted to try. A manager was making rounds, asked if we needed anything, and when I mentioned it, he went and got it himself.

I’d read some recent reviews complaining the quality had slipped. That was not our experience. Even with the server missing my wine, I wouldn’t think twice about booking it again next time we’re at the Broadmoor.

Our Take on Ristorante del Lago: real-deal Italian in a cool, rustic open-kitchen room. Next time, I’m getting there early for an aperitivo on the patio before dinner.

La Taverne

CUISINE: Steakhouse with French Influence
PRICE: $$$
DRESS CODE: Lunch: Casual / Dinner: Dressy Resort
RESERVATION: Recommended

From reading the Broadmoor’s website, I thought La Taverne was a traditional steak and seafood restaurant. Jason was excited that the Broadmoor serves 98% full-blooded Wagyu beef from Eagles Nest Ranch, and I love any and all seafood. So we happily booked it for dinner on the last night of our stay.

That morning, we realized we hadn’t eaten at PLAY at the Broadmoor yet. Since the goal was to eat at every restaurant on the resort property, we moved the La Taverne reservation to lunch and added PLAY for dinner.

What I missed in my research was that La Taverne has a “subtle French influence,” and I love French food. I was stoked.

La Taverne is right off the lobby in the Main Tower. The inside dining room is rustic French with wood-paneled walls covered in Toulouse-Lautrec prints and stained-glass windows adding a little old-world color. The showpiece is overhead: chandeliers built out of champagne bottles. It’s rustic and elegant at the same time.

But, the real highlight is Le Jardin, a garden conservatory with white lattice walls and live trees all under a glass roof. It’s bright and airy, like a French garden was transported to Colorado Springs.

I’ll be honest. Because we’d shuffled everything around that morning, we were the only people seated inside. It’s a cool space, but I spent lunch a little envious of the guests out in Le Jardin. If you want to be outside, book early.

We split the Dungeness crab bisque to start, and it was the richest, most delicious crab bisque I’ve ever had. Splitting was the right call because it’s so rich. I got the Shrimp Salad à la Louis Stratta, and it was another winner, piled high with shrimp and a full half an avocado.

Jason’s Prime Rib French Dip held up its end too: slow-roasted prime rib, Swiss cheese, and caramelized onions (on the side, his call), on a French hoagie bun with au jus.

Our Take on La Taverne: Good enough that my only regret is not going earlier in the trip, because I would have booked it a second time. Next visit, this one’s happening on night one, with a Le Jardin table.

Golden Bee

CUISINE: Pub
PRICE: $$+
DRESS CODE: Casual Dress or Dressy Resort
RESERVATION: Available

Spend any time at The Broadmoor and you’ll see little felt bees stuck to people’s shirts. It means they’ve eaten at Golden Bee. It’s a spot Jason and I hit on every visit, sometimes twice.

Golden Bee is an actual 19th-century English pub that was shipped over from London and rebuilt, panel by panel, in 1961. Inside is what you’d expect an English pub to look like with pressed-tin ceilings, a carved back bar, exposed brick, dark mahogany, and gas-lamp chandeliers. It’s cozy and loud (loud enough that nobody’s going to hear your kid melt down, which is its own kind of gift).

If you want a little more peace and quiet, ask for a table on the upstairs patio. Under a green-and-white striped awning and ringed with flower baskets, this is my favorite spot because it feels like a garden cafe.

When you sit down, your server will fling a felt bee sticker at you and they have an uncanny way of landing them perfectly. The story is that an early bartender would draw a bee on your coaster if you finished a full yard of ale. That turned into the flying stickers. They go through about 150,000 of them a year.

My go-to order is the Golden Bee Chopped Salad with chicken added. Jason almost always gets the fish and chips, and when he doesn’t, it’s the Golden Bee Burger. On one casual lunch we split the British cheese board and both got the French onion soup. The cheese board was delicious. The soup we didn’t love, though it was the only time we’ve had it, so maybe an off day.

Our Take on Golden Bee: For us, the Golden Bee is a favorite lunch place. The food is proper pub food, and we tend to want something a little different for dinner. It’s about as kid-friendly as it gets downstairs, and from what we hear the evenings are a different animal, with piano sing-alongs and half-yards of ale.

PLAY at the Broadmoor

CUISINE: American
PRICE: $$+
DRESS CODE: Casual Dress
RESERVATION: Recommended

You’re not going to find a lot of spots at a five-star resort where you can have a date night right next to a family of five having a fun family night out, and everyone’s having a great time.

Enter PLAY at The Broadmoor. Part sports bar. Part bowling alley. Part pool hall. The name basically says it all. 

We spent our last night at The Broadmoor sipping cocktails, enjoying good food, and being ridiculously competitive over a game of shuffleboard. All while watching our server battle it out in a dance-off with a 10-year-old from the family at the next table. The place just had fun energy.

For dinner, Jason picked the Play Nachos, and they were good enough that I ate more than my fair share. The Game Day Wings were great too. The one miss was the Crab Rangoon Dip, which tasted okay but didn’t land for me, maybe a texture thing. Let me know if you try it.

We skipped bowling because it comes in at $75 an hour. For the two of us, that math didn’t math, especially after spending $20 earlier in the day to entertain ourselves for hours at the Manitou Springs Penny Arcade. 

Besides, I’d rather put that $75 toward cocktails. But with four to six people, that same $75 is reasonable for an hour of entertainment. I think I was mostly surprised at the cost since bowling was around $10 per game at the JW Marriott on Marco Island. 

Our Take on PLAY at The Broadmoor: This spot has a little something for everybody. It’s a good time with good food in a genuinely cool space.

Lake Terrace Dining Room

CUISINE: Global
PRICE: $$$
DRESS CODE: Breakfast: Casual Dress, Brunch: Dressy Resort
RESERVATION: Required for Sunday Brunch only

Neither Jason nor I are breakfast people. We basically never eat it. But we made an exception one morning at the Lake Terrace, and it was worth getting up for.

Lake Terrace is the Broadmoor’s breakfast-only room, up on the second floor of the Main Tower, right above the reception desk. It’s a beautiful space that reminded me of a Parisian hotel restaurant.

The menu has something for everyone including a big spread of juices and plenty of lighter options. You’ll also find traditional breakfast platters, a variety of benedicts, and avocado toast. I had the bagel and lox plate with all the classic fixings, and it was so good I still think about it. Sadly, they’ve since pulled it from the menu, so I can’t send you straight to it.

Sundays are for brunch, and not just your average brunch. I’m talking champagne sipping, piano accompanied, 12+ chef stations kind of brunch.

Before our trip I told Jason that there is not a world in which I could casually drop $110 on brunch. But when I saw the spread goes well past breakfast basics into tortellini caprese, bananas foster, slow-roasted prime rib, and (my kryptonite) snow crab and oysters on the half shell, it got a lot easier to talk myself into it. Maybe next time.

Our Take on Lake Terrace Dining Room: If you’re a breakfast person, the room alone makes Lake Terrace worth the trip. If you’re not (hi, it’s us), save it for the Sunday brunch, assuming that $110 fits your budget.

Lakeside Pool Cafe

CUISINE: American
PRICE: $$
DRESS CODE: Swimwear or Recreation
RESERVATION: No

I don’t expect much from a poolside cafe. A decent chicken sandwich, an overpriced drink, something to keep you going, but nothing special. The Lakeside Pool Cafe blew that out of the water (sorry).

Once again, The Broadmoor service shines even at the pool. A staff member will help you find a lounge chair and set up your towels. Then, an army of servers arrives to take care of all the guests, delivering water and the occasional specialty drink like an Arnold Palmer (sweet tea and lemonade, if you’ve never had one).

Starting at 11am, you can order food and drinks from the Lakeside Pool Cafe. There’s a small section of tables by the counter. But you probably won’t see anyone eating there. Why would you choose an iron patio chair when a server will deliver your lunch right to your cushy lounge chair?

Just don’t leave your lunch while you cool off in the pool. This little guy helped himself to a salad while the guest was sleeping.

I ordered the Derby Cobb salad, and y’all, it was the heaviest salad I’ve ever had. Literally, it had to weigh a pound. I didn’t come close to finishing it. Split it, or make sure you’re really hungry. I never thought I’d say a salad was worth every bit of its $26, but this one easily was.

Jason got the quesadilla (and immediately handed me the side of guacamole he never eats), and it was fresh and genuinely good. Definitely not a typical reheated pool-cafe quesadilla.

The only thing I didn’t love was the Summer Peach Sangria. It was fine. Good, not great. I didn’t order a second one.

Our Take on Lakeside Pool Cafe: This was maybe the biggest surprise of any restaurant on property. The portions and the flavors were good enough that we planned a second pool day just to have lunch out there again. It’s overnight guests only (the pool is guest-access, so the cafe is too), and it’s only open in season, but if you’re staying at the Broadmoor in summer, do not treat pool lunch as an afterthought.

The Broadmoor Bars and Lounges

Penrose Lounge

CUISINE: Global
PRICE: $$
DRESS CODE: Dressy Resort
RESERVATION: No

I still can’t decide if the Penrose Lounge looks more like the kind of room where you expect Cary Grant to stroll around the corner holding a martini, or if it’s more like a scene from Ocean’s Eleven. Either way, it is the swankiest bar at The Broadmoor. 

I’m talking rich leather chairs, velvet pillows, and just enough zebra print thrown in to call it swanky. I chose the Broadmoor Clover Club, a gin concoction with a tiny picture of the Broadmoor somehow printed on the egg-white foam top. I have no idea how they do it. And yes, I’ve googled.

The bartenders are part showman and part scientist. They even distill their own ingredients for custom cocktails. If you love craft cocktails, you owe it to yourself to visit The Penrose Lounge.

I had read about the Polo Club, the whiskey-room speakeasy behind the false bookcase, so we asked about it. Sadly, it’s private-events-only right now and not open for a walk-in drink.

Our Take on The Penrose Lounge: Unlike the Penrose Room, no jacket is required. Come for a nightcap, grab a seat by the windows, and order the drink with the little Broadmoor on top.

The Hotel Bar

CUISINE: American / Upscale Bar Foods
PRICE: $$
DRESS CODE: Casual Dress or Dressy Resort
RESERVATION: No

This is our favorite spot in the whole resort, and to explain why, I have to take you back to our very first trip.

We’d had flight delays, then the long drive down from Denver, and we finally rolled into the Broadmoor around 10:30 at night. The only place still serving food was The Hotel Bar, and the kitchen was closing within half an hour of us walking in.

We were the only two people in the place and the server could not have been kinder. She treated us like it was the middle of the afternoon instead of the end of her shift, poured our wine, and brought us a charcuterie board which hit the spot.

Being taken care of like that was our introduction to the Broadmoor and it’s a big part of why we keep coming back.

Three years later, she was our server again. Same kindness, same warmth, like no time had passed. On our last trip we checked. And, yes she’s been there six or seven years now. When a place holds onto people like that, it tells you something about how they treat their staff.

The Hotel Bar sits just upstairs from the main lobby in the Main Tower and opens right onto the lake. On a nice evening they open the giant doors wide and let the Colorado air roll through. The decor is masculine and elegant, the kind of room that looks like it was made for sipping cognac after dinner. Outside is a full patio with a stone fireplace.

Over the years we’ve fallen in love with several of their cocktails. Jason went back for a second Man of the Boulevard, and got a kick out of the Improved Whiskey Cocktail, where the bartender rinses the glass with absinthe before building the cocktail.

My new favorite is the Southern Nectar, a tequila based martini with Creme de Violette, St-Germain, Lemon, and Honey. It was as beautiful as it was tasty.

We’ll make a whole dinner from the small plates here. The skillet-baked Camembert buried under caramelized onions, bacon jam, and honey-roasted pecans is our favorite. But, the Eagles Nest Ranch Wagyu Sliders and Birria Tacos are right behind it.

Our Take on The Hotel Bar: We’ve been to The Hotel Bar more times than I can count. With my parents, with friends, just the two of us watching a hailstorm roll across the lake. It’s become so comfortable that it almost feels like an extension of our room. If you sit down at one bar on the property, make it this one.

The Broadmoor Cafes

Cafe Julie’s

CUISINE: French Patisserie
PRICE: $
DRESS CODE: Recreation or Casual Wear
RESERVATION: No

No matter how many times we go back to the Broadmoor, I will always, always end up at Cafe Julie’s more than once. Sometimes more than once a day. It’s the French pâtisserie in the Main Tower, named for Julie Penrose.

There’s always a line. And everything is always delicious.

The berry tart is my favorite breakfast at the Broadmoor, hands down. The croissants are right behind it. But I don’t just come for breakfast. I’m always back a second time in the day, for a few macarons (I’ve worked through the flavors) or the limoncello gelato that gets me dreaming about our Italy trip this fall.

The first thing you’ll probably notice at the counter is the three-foot-tall chocolate sculpture. They defy gravity and any sense of reason. If you want to see how they make them, head to the back of Julie’s, where a big window looks in on the chocolatiers working.

I’ve watched them do everything from shaping cartoon figures out of chocolate to using tweezers to place edible gold onto individual chocolates with beautiful, delicious precision.

The cafe has seating, but my favorite thing to do is order to-go and sit in a rocking chair by the lake. Frozen coffee isn’t on the menu, but if you pick up a frozen coffee habit in Colorado Springs (I did), they’ll happily make it for you.

Our Take on Cafe Julie’s: Cafe Julie’s is the one place at The Broadmoor we are guaranteed to come back to every single trip, usually daily. Go in the morning for a pastry, and don’t be surprised when you’re back that afternoon.

Natural Epicurean

CUISINE: Coffee / Juices / Fresh Light Bites
PRICE: $
DRESS CODE: Recreation or Casual Wear
RESERVATION: No

This is the cafe for the health-conscious. Or the aspiring health-conscious. Or the people who want everyone to think they’re health-conscious. No judgment. Natural Epicurean sits in the lobby of the West Tower, and it does the fresh stuff.

They serve smoothies in flavors like peanut butter banana and strawberry banana. They also have fresh-pressed juices, like spiced pear or carrot ginger. It’s the kind of thing you grab on your way out the door to Garden of the Gods. If juices aren’t your vibe, you’ve got a variety of pastries, sandwiches, and salads to choose from.

It’s also where I found out I’m addicted to frozen coffee, which is what I grabbed before driving up Pikes Peak.

However, the service was slooooow. Both mornings I went, there was a line out the door, and I waited a solid 15 to 20 minutes for a frozen coffee and a pastry. They’d heated the pastry so early that it went cold before the coffee was done, and I had to ask them to warm it up again. The feta and spinach Danish I got was fine, not something I’d order twice. Maybe that’s the wait talking.

Our Take on Natural Epicurean: If you’re a fresh-pressed-juice-and-smoothie person, Natural Epicurean is your spot, because you won’t find that at Cafe Julie’s. But if you just want a quick coffee and a pastry, walk over to Julie’s in the Main Tower, even if you’re staying in the West. That’s where I ended up every morning after this, and yes, they’ll happily make you a frozen coffee too.

What About Restaurant 1858?

The one Broadmoor restaurant we haven’t eaten at is Restaurant 1858, and there was a good reason. It isn’t on the main resort. It’s at Broadmoor Seven Falls, a nearby park with a hike to a waterfall. We have hiked Seven Falls in the past, but at that time, the restaurant was not open.

There’s no parking at Seven Falls, so you take the shuttle from the hotel, and you have to pay park admission just to get in the door: $21 per adult, $15 per kid. For the two of us, that’s $42 on top of dinner, and for a family it climbs toward $100 before anyone orders a thing.

So here’s my honest take, and I’ll be upfront that we haven’t dined here yet: don’t make 1858 a standalone dinner trip. Go see Seven Falls, do the waterfall and the trails, and eat at 1858 while you’re already there and already paid in.

Which Broadmoor Restaurant Should You Book?

If I could only pick 3 restaurants for a stay at The Broadmoor, I’d have to go for:

• The Penrose Room for the amazing views, delicious food, and 5-star service. It’s a total experience.
• The Hotel Bar because I have a soft spot for this comfortable yet elegant spot by the lake and its freakishly good cocktails.
• La Taverne for the French influence and seafood that I never expected to find in Colorado.