Alpinista Bistro

I love this place. All the staff here are very friendly and amazing. They serve probably THE best drinks at copper. Also, they have great food. Banana bread French toast? What. Amazing! It’s a must if you come to copper mountain.

On vaca in copper. Love this little place, great food, friendly staff, and great company with the dogs. And if you don’t finish your food you can give the last bites to the dog to make it seem like you did ;) great feel at this place

This place is great for breakfast! Sammy and Emma (the beautiful dog) are awesome. Great service and the pancakes are amazing! Customer service is great. We ordered the chocolate chip pancakes and the kids split a plate… they couldn’t even finish them. Not sure what kind of chocolate that is but super tasty. Love this place

Ate there this morning. Food and service were excellent. Perhaps a little pricey but well worth it for the high quality food. I will eat there again.

Adequate food, dirty tablecloth, lip prints on the wineglass, dishes not that clean either! And it’s expensive with a very limited menu.

Staying at copper for the weeks and we thought we would give this place a try. Fondue sounded fun slopeside.
Big mistake. Food was not good and way overpriced. First off, the chili was just plain awful, as if you bought it out of a can and heated it up. Second it came in a stale bread bowl. Bad for $ 12.
Kids meals. $ 12 for kids pasta (adult is 16) poorly cooked pasta with butter and craft macaroni and cheese.
Peanut oil fondu. Sauces were awful. Chicken faded bad and we had sausage which was pepperoni (they said bison). We couldn’t even eat half of it and the server never asked if there were any issues or asked if they could do something. It was obvious we were not happy.
Bottom line. Way too overpriced, poor food, mediocre service.
Even though I’m not going back to copper
For a while I’m not wasting any time here. Move on down the center town. the burgers are better than this place.
Not worth it.

Excellent service and food. I love the family feel. The owners took time to talk to us and made sure we were well taken care of for our breakfast. Can’t wait to go back and try dinner.

This is a follow up to my review on 1÷10÷2015. This restaurant ruined our entire ski weekend with their complete ineptitude. My wife got food poisoning from the fondue because the oil was not hot enough to thoroughly cook the meat. This is listed as their feature entrée. Totally inexcusable and totally irresponsible. Eat here at your own peril.

Horrible, slow service. Food was average. Can’t see us going back to give it a second chance. Got the feeling like they weren’t motivated to please since we don’t have many other options at copper to eat.

My experience here for breakfast was one disappointment after another. We sit down to order drinks and they are out of the cider that a girlfriend orders, as well as the moonshine her bf ordered (they poured the last teaspoon into a glass for him). My bf orders a bloody mary which was pretty bland, my kolsch draft was the only successful beverage order.
For our food, i wanted the banana bread french toast, but they were out. With months and months left of ski season I don’t understand how a restaurant can be out of so many things!
$ 14 gets you 2 eggs, 2 slices of overcooked bacon, a bit of cinnamon bread (or toast, or a pancake, which was actually a decent size), and a spoonful of hashbrowns. I know it’s a restaurant at a ski resort but $ 14 is excessive.
On top of the over priced mediocre food and lack of items in stock they stuck us with an autogratuity charge, for a 4 top! With three of the four of us being in the industry that was salt on the wound. I’ll be skiing copper all season and won’t be coming back for any meal.

Honestly, i was so mad. Food was good. REally good. there was really good toast. I ordered whole wheat toast and it was awesome and buttered but definitely wasnt whole wheat bread. But I had a problem… service was so slow and our waitress did not have it together. i understand that u can smoke here, «recreationally». but i hope this girl was high because if she wasnt she really was not capable of completing menial tasks. I got good scrambled eggs but some of my friends didnt get good eggs. Especially the omletes. Im under the impression that u serve an omlette with the stuff within the egg, but the stuff was just on top. Thats just scambled eggs with vegetables on top. Let me reiterate, the service was terrible. and it was empty and really frickin expensive. I should have paid max 15 dollars for 2 eggs scambled and fruit, and toast, but i unfortunately paid 25 dollars including a 4 dollar autmoatic gratuity. I feel like thats my decision but whatever! i dont mind paying alot for good food and service but like that was WAYYYY TOOO MUCHHHH. i honestly think maybe i went in with too high of expectations but the ambiance suggested i was gonna get a dope comfort food meal with friendly service but no…

We loved this place! You’re in the mountains and hopefully relaxing after a great day on the slopes or a great morning to kick off the day.
We ate here 3 times in a 5 day period. Twice for dinner and once for breakfast. We stuck to the fondue (cheese) and desert (chocolate fondue), so we can’t speak for the menu items. Having lived overseas, the fondue was authentic and the raclette looked great! The milk chocolate/​white chocolate desert fondue was amazing!
Breakfast did not disappoint either.
We felt like the wait staff was available as needed and did not check in too often. They allowed us to enjoy our meal and good company. Nothing but great things to say about Alpinista. Enjoy!
If you are in a hurry, go to McDonalds.
BTW, the wine list is already on the tables in the evening. House wine is avg., but there are other really good options for only $ 1 or $ 2 more per bottle.

We ate at this restaurant tonight and I can’t think of any redeeming qualities. Service was slow, food was terrible, we had to beg for a wine menu, kids menus and water. The waitress was frazzled and the kitchen was slow. It was hard to tell who was at fault. Clearly both of the other tables in our area were totally unimpressed too. One complained loudly to the manager about the quantity of fondue for the price. The other was clearly working very hard to be patient for their terribly slow service since they were seated before us and were still waiting to pay when we finally stormed out. Definitely do not eat here!

We have now had two disappointing experiences at Alpinista Bistro in the past year. Two days ago, our party of four went to the restaurant about 3:30 PM, with only three other tables with patrons.
After being seated promptly, we waited almost 10 minutes for our waitress to even take our drink orders. She started out on a great note by telling us which menu items they were out of (amazingly, beef was one of them). We promptly placed a cheese fondue order and drinks. The drinks (only two diet sodas) took a long time, and we then ordered chicken and shrimp fondue. A basket of bread (for use with the cheese fondue) was placed at our table, which we stared and nibbled at while waiting.
After 45 minutes and no further attention from the wait staff, we inquired at the bar about our orders. The waitress replied that the order had not even been started. No explanation or offer to rectify the situation was offered. At this point we left for another establishment.
This followed a similarly poor experience in February 2013, when our fondue meal took over 2 hours and the service was terrible. It’s a shame because we greatly enjoyed this restaurant prior to last season. The menu is disjointed and the food is now very overpriced. Combined with the abysmal service, we will be taking our business elsewhere.

Made a reservation last night over the phone, showed up to the restaurant only to find that it had closed. (At 7:45, supposedly open til 10). Great job!

We ate here for breakfast, which was amazing and filling before hitting the slopes. Our server (and Manager) Jason gave good guidance helping us not to over-​order. His honesty and hospitality convinced us to return for the evening fondue/​grill special.
The fondue meal was an amazing treat. We will be back!

Rack it up as one more less than impressive Copper Mountain restaurant. We were looking for a ‘sit-​down’ breakfast place (in addition to our typical stop at the Belgian Bean) and ended up at Alpinista.
Even though it was relatively slow, the two servers couldn’t really keep up with the diners and our breakfast dragged on and on. And while I’m used to paying exorbitant prices at resorts, the $ 4 for one slice of ‘French Toast’ was almost laughable. Generally, breakfast was a bust. The biscuits and gravy (as well as pancakes) were pretty good, and I’m willing to guess that the biscuits were homemade, but was it worth $ 12 a plate? Not really… I’d rather spend that money elsewhere.
I did however, have a great shooter here for Apres. So a fine (not too crowded) place to drink at the bar, but not somewhere I’ll eat at again.

Great food. Ate there for breakfast, lunch & dinner during our stay.
Wide variety of food on the menu. Everyone found something they liked!

Perhaps one of my weirdest dining experiences in a long time. We went in to Alpinista for sit-​down service the night before but were told by the manager /​owner that they were too busy and couldn’t serve us in a timely manner. He had some big tables that were taking up the kitchen resources. Restaurant was slow otherwise. So, we took this as kinda thoughtful and we appreciated that heads up. Had dinner somewhere else that night.
The next night we ordered takeout from Alpinista. When I went in to pick it up 30 minutes later the same guy was telling the family in front of me that he couldn’t serve them in a timely manner so they should go somewhere else. Hmmmmm, heard that one before and they weren’t even busy.
I took our take-​out food back to the condo and began to unwrap. We had ordered the brats dinner and mac n cheese for the kids to spit, wife got baked brie and a salad and I got the Mont Blanc with chicken and a French onion soup.
For some reason, we received a brat sandwich with saur kraut, a BUNCH of salads (one salad had sliced bratwurst on it… didn’t even see that on the menu) and the Mont Blanc with chicken had a small amount of veggie and some canned pickles and peppers mixed in. The chicken tasted and looked like that same chicken you get on an airplane… flat and tasteless.
The kids hated, and would not eat, the mac n cheese. A FIRST! I’m thinking that it was a cheese they didnt like and it may have had too much garlic in it. I had a taste and didn’t think it was good either. The Mont Blanc had spaetzle and chicken but the sauce tasted like a strange combo of brown gravy and Polynesian sweet and sour sauce. Very odd. The brie was the only thing worth having again.
It seems from the other reviews that the breakfast is very good and some other items on the dinner menu might be better like the fondue. After my first week in Copper, I can safely say I would still make the drive to Frisco, Breckenridge or Vail rather than going to almost any place in Copper Village.

Went here for breakfast on new years day.
I had the Sestriere Rosti
It’s basically mushrooms, cheese, tomatoes on top of hashbrowns with eggs on top.
It was very tasty and very filling — didn’t have to eat anything else all day even with a full day of boarding on the mtn!
My sis got the eggs benedict and that was good as well — their homestyle potatoes are very tasty!