
Seven Colorado restaurants elevated themselves above the rest, according to Forbes.
In the recently released Forbes 2021 Travel Guide Star Awards, the magazine named The Broadmoor as the longest-running five-star hotel globally. Inside of the luxury Colorado Springs hotel is Colorado’s lone five-star dining experience, the Penrose Room, according to Forbes.
The only Denver restaurant to make the list was Edge Restaurant & Bar, a steakhouse located in the Four Seasons Hotel.
Two restaurants in Boulder, three in the high country and one in Colorado Springs rounded out the seven.
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Boulder’s Jill’s Restaurant at St Julien Hotel & Spa, like Edge, received a recommendation, while Flagstaff House, overlooking Boulder, received a four-star rating from Forbes, as did Element 47 at the Little Nell in Aspen.
Just inside Beaver Creek in Avon is Mirabelle, a mountain delight in a turn-of-the-century ranch house. Game Creek in Vail sits atop a back bowl, requiring a snowcat in the winter and a four-wheel-drive vehicle in the summer to access the secluded chalet.
These restaurants were among 28 Colorado properties — including hotels and spas — of the 1,870 Forbes recognized globally.
Denver’s Ritz-Carlton and Four Seasons were the only hotels Forbes listed as four or five stars in the Mile High City.
You can see all of Colorado’s listed properties here.