Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Colorado Springs from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Colorado Springs
Broadmoor holds four venues in our guide. Summit, the Penrose Room, and Ristorante del Lago are the restaurants there with Wine Spectator awards and extensive wine lists.
Summit is a contemporary American brasserie in Broadmoor, with a la carte service, a prix fixe, and a tasting menu built on seasonal Rocky Mountain ingredients. It holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and a Forbes 4-Star, both for 2026. The wine program has an extensive list and a wine tower holding 1,400 bottles, plus craft cocktails.
The Penrose Room is a contemporary French fine-dining restaurant in Broadmoor, set atop The Broadmoor's South Tower, with views of Cheyenne Mountain and tableside preparations. Service is prix fixe and tasting menu. It holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026, a Michelin Plate for 2026, and an AHEAD Americas Restaurant Shortlist recognition for 2026. The wine program is exceptional and sommelier-led, with an extensive list.
Ristorante del Lago serves authentic Northern Italian cooking in Broadmoor, in a resort setting with lakeside and mountain views. The formats are a la carte and buffet. It holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for 2026 and a World's Best Wine Lists Awards WBWL 3-Star for 2025. The wine program is exceptional and sommelier-led, with an extensive list.
Roth's Sea & Steak in North Colorado Springs and Ristorante di Sopra hold Star Wine List recognition for 2026. Four by Brother Luck in Downtown Colorado Springs serves a seasonal four-course tasting menu and holds a Michelin Plate for 2026.
Roth's Sea & Steak is a modern steakhouse and seafood restaurant in North Colorado Springs. Chef Ricky Biswas serves refined steak and seafood a la carte. The restaurant holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for 2026 and a Star Wine List White Star from January 2026. Its wine program has an extensive list and craft cocktails.
Ristorante di Sopra is an authentic Italian trattoria serving house-made pasta and fresh mozzarella a la carte. Runs in partnership with Michael David Winery. The restaurant holds a Star Wine List award for 2026.
Four by Brother Luck is a bar in Downtown Colorado Springs. Chef Brother Luck cooks Southwestern food drawn from farmers, fishers, hunters, and gatherers. The format is a seasonal four-course tasting menu inspired by the Four Corners region. It holds a Michelin Plate for 2026. The bar serves wine, craft cocktails, and craft beer.
Our guide counts no Michelin-starred restaurants in Colorado Springs. The Penrose Room in Broadmoor holds a Michelin Plate for 2026, and Four by Brother Luck in Downtown Colorado Springs holds a Michelin Plate for 2026.
Broadmoor and North Colorado Springs hold these Wine Spectator restaurants. Summit and the Penrose Room in Broadmoor hold a Best of Award of Excellence, and Ristorante del Lago in Broadmoor holds an Award of Excellence. Roth's Sea & Steak in North Colorado Springs holds an Award of Excellence. Citywide, our guide counts four Best of Award of Excellence awards and two Awards of Excellence.
Tasting menus in our guide are at Summit and the Penrose Room in Broadmoor, at Four by Brother Luck in Downtown Colorado Springs, and at Ephemera in downtown. Four by Brother Luck serves a seasonal four-course tasting menu inspired by the Four Corners region. Ephemera serves an experimental five-course tasting menu of hyper-local ingredients inside a food hall under a greenhouse-style roof.
Roth's Sea & Steak in North Colorado Springs and Ristorante di Sopra hold Star Wine List recognition for 2026. Roth's Sea & Steak holds a White Star on Star Wine List from January 2026, with an extensive list. Ristorante di Sopra's list is in partnership with Michael David Winery.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Ristorante del Lago holds a 3-Star Accreditation from the World of Fine Wine & Lifestyle Awards, placing it among Colorado Springs' most formally recognised Italian dining addresses. Set on Lake Avenue within the Broadmoor resort complex, the restaurant anchors the property's fine-dining offer with a lakeside setting and a culinary approach that has earned consistent critical attention across the region.
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Summit at The Broadmoor has anchored fine dining in Colorado Springs since 2006, operating as the resort's most formally ambitious restaurant with a seasonally driven tasting menu and a wine tower holding 1,400 bottles. Chef de Cuisine Rocio Neyra Palmer draws on the nearly 3,000-acre property's own farms, greenhouse, and 40 honey hives, alongside ranch-raised wagyu and regional purveyors, to build a program rooted in Colorado's agricultural calendar.
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A long-standing Italian bistro on Colorado Avenue's west side, Paravicini's occupies a corner of Colorado Springs where neighbourhood dining still means something more than convenience. The room reads as a working local restaurant rather than a destination concept, and that distinction matters in a city where the Italian dining tier remains relatively thin. Reservations are advisable on weekends.
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The Penrose Room sits at the summit of The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, where the Rocky Mountain setting shapes the dining experience as directly as the kitchen does. It occupies a tier of Colorado fine dining where the altitude, the sourcing region, and the formality of the room all carry weight. For travelers comparing premier dinner options in the city, it anchors the upper end of the conversation.
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Ristorante di Sopra, located on South 28th Street in Colorado Springs, holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List, awarded in July 2022, signaling a wine program of notable depth for the region. The restaurant occupies a distinct position in a Colorado Springs dining scene more accustomed to American grill formats, offering an Italian-rooted approach to both food and wine selection.
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Roth's Sea & Steak brings surf-and-turf dining to Colorado Springs' northern corridor at Spectrum Sun View, earning recognition as a White Star venue on Star Wine List in January 2026. The format sits within a Colorado dining scene increasingly willing to take seafood seriously at altitude, pairing it with the kind of steak program that anchors the region's carnivore-leaning restaurant culture.
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Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star and La Liste Top Hotels (95 points, 2026), The Broadmoor occupies 5,000 acres at the foot of the Rockies in Colorado Springs. With 784 rooms, multiple restaurants and bars spanning a 19th-century English gastropub to the refined Summit, and wilderness outposts extending another 2,000 acres, it operates at a scale that few American resort properties attempt.
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Hotel Polaris sits on North Gate Boulevard in Colorado Springs, carrying a 2025 Michelin Selected designation that places it in a focused tier of Colorado properties recognized for quality and consistency. For travelers arriving to use the Air Force Academy corridor or the Pikes Peak region as a base, it offers a measured alternative to the city's resort-scale options. The address positions it conveniently for both mountain access and the city's northern amenities.
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Kinship Landing sits on South Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs, carrying a 2025 MICHELIN Selected distinction that positions it in a smaller tier of independently recognised lodging in the city. The address places guests within reach of both downtown Colorado Springs and the broader Front Range without the resort scale of The Broadmoor. For travellers who want Michelin-level vetting at a non-resort footprint, it is a credible anchor for exploring the city.
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SCP Hotel Colorado Springs holds a MICHELIN Selected recognition for 2025, placing it among a curated tier of properties in a city better known for resort grandeur than design-led lodging. Located on South Circle Drive, the property operates within the SCP (Soul Community Planet) brand's sustainability-forward framework, offering a practical and principled alternative to Colorado Springs' more conventional hotel market.
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The Mining Exchange occupies a landmark building on South Nevada Avenue in downtown Colorado Springs, earning recognition as a MICHELIN Selected hotel in 2025. The property brings a historic financial district address into Colorado's premium accommodation tier, offering guests a base with architectural weight and direct access to the city's evolving hospitality scene.
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Set within 7,000 acres of Colorado wilderness, The Ranch at Emerald Valley operates under The Broadmoor's hospitality umbrella as an all-inclusive retreat for just 30 guests. Horseback riding, fly-fishing, cattle work, and a farm-sourced culinary program define the daily rhythm. It is among the more capacity-restricted luxury ranch experiences in the American West.
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Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort sits at 2 El Paso Blvd in Colorado Springs, occupying a position in the growing category of activity-anchored lodging where the sport is the architecture of the stay. Positioned near Manitou Springs and the Garden of the Gods corridor, it draws cyclists and outdoor travelers who want proximity to trail access built into the property's logic rather than offered as an afterthought.
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Four by Brother Luck sits on North Tejon Street in downtown Colorado Springs, where the cocktail program carries the same culinary discipline as the kitchen. The bar operates in a register rarely found along the Front Range, where technique, local sourcing, and format coherence place it in a competitive tier above the city's standard dining-and-drinks circuit.
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On West Colorado Avenue, 503W occupies a stretch of Colorado Springs that has become the city's most credible address for serious drinking. The bar sits alongside a small cohort of independently minded operations that define this part of town, positioning itself as a craft-focused counterpoint to the chain-heavy downtown core. For anyone building an itinerary around cocktail culture, it belongs on the list.
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Burrowing Owl sits on South 8th Street in Colorado Springs, representing the city's quieter, neighbourhood-bar tier where the relationship between what's poured and what's plated defines the experience. The food-and-drink pairing instinct here reflects a broader shift in Colorado Springs drinking culture: serious about craft without the showcase theatrics of the downtown strip.
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On West Colorado Avenue, where Old Colorado City's independent streak runs deepest, Cerberus Brewing Company anchors the neighborhood's craft beer scene with a format built around local ingredients and the kind of unhurried, brewery-as-gathering-place atmosphere that has largely disappeared from larger Front Range cities. It sits in the mid-tier of Colorado Springs drinking establishments, competing on character and sourcing rather than scale.
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Colorado Craft Social occupies a corner of the Carlton Building in downtown Colorado Springs, positioning itself within a small but growing tier of bars that take drinks curation seriously in a city more commonly associated with breweries and mountain lagers. The address at 15 S Tejon St places it squarely in the pedestrian core, making it a natural stop on any considered evening out in the Springs.
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Colorado Springs has a small but serious craft spirits scene, and Distillery 291 at 4242 N Nevada Ave sits near its center. Named for the historical photography studio that once occupied the New York building associated with the Aspen bark used in its charring process, 291 produces Colorado whiskey with a regional identity that extends well beyond the Front Range.
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Ephemera occupies a suite address on South Tejon Street in downtown Colorado Springs, positioning itself within the city's growing corridor of considered drinking and dining. The name signals something deliberate: spaces and experiences that resist permanence, favoring atmosphere and mood over formula. For Colorado Springs, that represents a meaningful step toward the kind of bar culture more commonly found in Denver or beyond.
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Goat Patch Brewing Company occupies a taproom space on North Cascade Avenue in Colorado Springs, where the brewery format follows the community-facing model that has defined Colorado's craft beer scene over the past decade. Positioned within a city that has built a recognizable brewing corridor, it draws a cross-section of locals and visitors looking for a relaxed, beer-forward experience away from the downtown cluster.
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A converted 1924 elementary school on South Cascade Avenue, Ivywild School has become one of Colorado Springs' most distinctive gathering places, housing a brewery, bakery, coffee bar, and rotating food vendors under one adaptive-reuse roof. The format rewards drop-in visits over formal reservations, and the communal atmosphere draws a broad cross-section of the city throughout the week.
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Joey's NY Pizza on Templeton Gap Road sits in a Colorado Springs pizza scene that rewards direct execution over concept-driven showmanship. The address puts it at the northern edge of the city, away from the downtown corridor where most visitors concentrate. For residents who have grown accustomed to its presence, the draw is consistency in a category where that quality is genuinely difficult to maintain.
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Italian dining has carved a consistent foothold in Colorado Springs, and La Bella Vita Ristorante Italiano on Northpark Drive represents the neighborhood trattoria end of that spectrum. The address places it in the north corridor of the city, away from the downtown dining cluster, serving a residential catchment that values proximity and familiarity over destination-dining spectacle.
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Lulu's Downtown occupies a corner of Colorado Springs' Tejon Street corridor, where the city's most active dining and bar strip runs through the heart of downtown. The address at 32 S Tejon St places it squarely in the blocks where occasion dining, after-work drinking, and late-night momentum overlap, a practical anchor for anyone planning a milestone evening in the city center.
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On North Tejon Street in downtown Colorado Springs, Odyssey Gastropub occupies a stretch of the city's most active dining corridor, where craft-forward bars and independent restaurants have steadily displaced chain formats over the past decade. The gastropub format here positions it between casual bar and deliberate dining room, drawing a crowd that wants both a serious drink and a proper plate without committing to a full tasting-menu occasion.
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Piglatin Cocina occupies a stretch of Dublin Boulevard in Colorado Springs' north side, where the city's dining scene has been quietly thickening around suburban corridors rather than downtown set pieces.
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On West Colorado Avenue, Pizzeria Rustica occupies a stretch of Colorado Springs that has long drawn independent operators over chain formats. The pizzeria anchors the Old Colorado City corridor with a focused, hearth-driven approach that fits the neighborhood's preference for craft over convention. For visitors building a day around the Westside, it sits comfortably within a broader itinerary of independently run spots.
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Por Favor Tacos & Tragos brings a taco-and-cocktail format to Colorado Springs' northwest corridor, where the intersection of Mexican culinary tradition and contemporary bar programming is still finding its footing. Located on Centennial Boulevard, the spot draws a neighborhood crowd looking for something more considered than a fast-casual taco chain without the formality of a sit-down dinner.
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Among Colorado Springs bars, Shuga's on South Cascade Avenue occupies a niche that mixes low-key neighbourhood character with a drinks program that draws regulars and visitors alike. The South End address puts it at a remove from the downtown brewery circuit, giving the room a local-leaning rhythm that most tourist-facing spots along Tejon Street never quite achieve.
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A Colorado Springs bar with staying power on East Platte Avenue, The Black Sheep has built a following among locals who track the city's independent drinking scene. The address at 2106 E Platte Ave places it in a stretch of the city where neighborhood regulars and curious newcomers share space. Among the bars shaping Colorado Springs after dark, it occupies a distinct corner of the conversation.
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A West Colorado Avenue address that sits inside Colorado Springs' most musically active corridor, The Loft operates as a live music venue and gathering space where the programming agenda shapes the room as much as the architecture. Expect an intimate capacity, a crowd that skews toward local and regional acts, and an atmosphere that owes more to the city's independent arts culture than to the resort-town polish found elsewhere on the Front Range.
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The Public House at The Alexander occupies a considered position in Colorado Springs' bar scene, where the back bar depth and spirits curation do most of the talking. Situated on North Nevada Avenue, it draws drinkers who want something more deliberate than a pour-and-go experience. For a city whose cocktail culture is still finding its register, this is a venue worth tracking.
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On the main drag of downtown Colorado Springs, The Rabbit Hole occupies a Tejon Street address that puts it at the center of the city's evolving bar scene. The space trades on atmosphere as much as program, drawing a crowd that comes for the mood as much as the glass. It sits in a peer group of downtown bars redefining what a Colorado Springs night out looks like.
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A Korean restaurant on South Academy Boulevard, Tong Tong occupies a stretch of Colorado Springs that runs thick with immigrant-owned dining. The address places it squarely in the city's most culinarily diverse corridor, where Korean, Vietnamese, and Mexican kitchens operate with minimal fanfare and considerable regularity. For a city still developing its Korean food scene, it fills a clear gap in the south-side offer.
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Tony's on North Tejon Street occupies a particular place in Colorado Springs' bar scene: the kind of address that regulars treat less as a destination and more as an extension of the neighborhood itself. Where newer concepts along the downtown corridor position themselves around cocktail programs or craft credentials, Tony's operates on the older, more durable logic of consistency and familiarity.
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