Gorrono Ranch

Smokehouse has great Barbeque. Great place to take a ski break. Employees very curteous. Try the kobe beef sandwich.

Overpriced and the food is not good. When I went there I felt sick for the rest of the day. However it is convenient.

This on-​mountain restaurant/​bar is the best apres spot in Telluride. If you’re lucky, Derek will be there rocking the guitar and taking requests. The ambience is an old ranch with multiple structures– a cafeteria, BBQ pit and bar. We went there multiple times during our 4 ski days in Telluride. Highlights were the chili, mac and cheese and bloody mary. They have the occasional free local beer tasting too.

I’ve frequented a lot of ski slope bars/​restaurants across Colorado, Wyoming, Washington and Canada. This is the most fun I’ve had at any of them. Great layout, with a huge deck and lots of comfortable lawn chairs, live music/​DJ, several food options, several bars, fun crowd. They have it all. A day of skiing at Telluride is not complete without a stop at Gorrono.

The chicken was the best I’ve ever had and the music is on point — wish I discovered this earlier in the trip!

Smokehouse is decent, depending on when the most recent batch of meat was made. Rest of it is standard cafeteria food, served with no care. I really don’t mind paying for 9 dollars for a cup of soup, if it had a decent taste, and wasn’t slopped to me out of the last scoop of an industrial trough.

I would have loved to give a 5 star review but the music just didn’t do it for me or anyone in my group. The atmosphere and food is good, but the music just brings the mood down! More upbeat rhythms for a 5 star review!

After having grown up skiing the amazing Telluride slopes, my daughter chose Gorrono Ranch as the venue for her wedding. I cannot recommend the professionals with Telluride Ski and Golf highly enough, especially Lacey Downing. During the planning process my daughter was living abroad. TSG was flexible to accommodate her odd times of availability and, perhaps unusual, menu wishes. Every detail of the wedding day was handled flawlessly! Thank you for the perfect, stress free wedding!

Gorrono’s is the largest place to eat on the mountain. The main building offers soups (including great chili), a hot grill bar, pre-​made sandwiches, and pre-​made salads (including a seared tuna salad). When the Smokehouse is open (yesterday was the last day it was open for the season), you can order a selection of various grilled meats, including kobe beef. Gorrono’s also offers the standard ski mountain drink selection (sodas, teas, coffee), in addition to chapstick and sunscreen. When the weather is nice, the deck is a great place to sit, eat, and listen to live music.

EPIC. For ski lodge food… ANY food… this place is the place to be mid day. Rest, eat, warm up, live music, fun vibe, friendly staff, friendly diners, awesome vibe, cool people., amazing views. BEST CHILI… and amazing BBQ. I have been coming here every trip for about ten years. These guys are doing it right. Keep up the awesome energy! I love this place.

As good as it gets for slope side dining and entertainment, live music daily and a ton of great outdoor seating. Food is on point and reasonable with a good amount of choices from a smokehouse, to traditional sandwhiches and soup inside with a chilidog kicker in the bar. Easy to spend too much time here while the mountain beckons.

OMG my husband and I had our wedding here and it was spectacular!!! It was almost two years ago and our guests still talk about how amazing it was. The staff is phenominal and the chef put together the most delectable menu. They are really easy going and work great with all your vendors. I would highly recommend using their preferred vendors too. Everyone was superb!!!

Can’t speak to the actual ski in ski out but for a wedding is was an AMAZING location.
Perfect views of the mountains and mountain village, rustic + home feeling inside along with VIEWS that you’ll never get sick of.

What better way for me to spend a frigid Sunday afternoon in Atlanta, than writing about a ski resort lunch hot spot?
So, I’ll start by saying I love Telluride, CO in general — favorite ski town hands down. But that being said, Gorrono is really a notch above most cafeterias available to skiers and boarders on /​near the mountain. As the other Unilocalers mention, it’s normally overpriced, mediocre food at best because you’re at the mercy of convenience.
Gorrono gives you something a step well above that. It’s a large, welcoming log cabin respite in the middle of Telluride’s main mountain. Granted, it’s been a few years since my last spring break ski week there, but I still remember many trips there fondly.
It’s an easy spot to reach even for the most novice skiers and boarders. There are double green runs like Village Bypass up to double blues like Humboldt Fog that all feed directly past Gorrono as you head for the Mountain Village and Lift 4.
This ski in, ski out spot offers not only indoor dining with a large, roaring fireplace ready to warm you up and dry out your soaked neck gators or gloves, but there’s a second floor of more seating for the overflow. Outdoors there’s a multi-​tiered deck with picnic tables and more tables and chairs made of tree stumps for nice weather, a fire pit, PLUS a slew of lawn chairs planted firmly in the snow near the detached Saloon for spring skiers to take a load off and catch some rays on those glorious «spring skiing» days.
And the most impressive part of Gorrono, to me, is the food. Yes, it’s going to be more expensive, but that’s to be expected — it’s a ski resort after all. At least, the food you’re ponying up your paycheck for is good. And the options are plentiful — there’s a smoke house cooking up fresh barbecue daily, rotating vegetarian and vegan options, multiple soups and chilis to warm your bones, the quintessential burgers, fries and hot dogs and more exotic stuff like grilled tilapia sandwiches and decent salads. I know! Awesome!
So not only do you get good food, a comfortable place to hang out (so comfortable it’s sometimes nearly impossible to find a spot to sit once you’ve gotten food — I recommend assigning one person the task of saving a table for a group if possible), but you’ve also got the prettiest view ever for your backdrop. Imagine sprawling mountain ranges (on the clearest of days, you can see the mountains in Utah from the top), views of the expensive (yet very quaint looking) log cabin homes on the sides of the hills and the towering hotels of Mountain Village to eat your chicken fingers to. Perfection.
Gorrono also serves as a perfect place to hide when the weather is nasty. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve taken refuge when the wind is blowing a snow storm has blown onto the mountain. Warming my fingers and fortifying myself with a cup of hot chocolate always gives me the strength to venture back out and usually download to town for the rest of the day. :)

Ski in hungry, ski out full of deliciously warm food. A plethora of choice, including vegetarian, vegan & gluten-​free options. Outdoor seating & bar — & when we were there, some live acoustic guitar playing in the background.
The pricing isn’t cheap but you ARE on the middle of the mountain.

Definitely the best stop for lunch on the mountain, much better tha. The new places in the main resort area. I also recommend the dinner option.

5 stars for the straight chillin’ in lawn chairs and heady beers. The food is normal slope side food with the addition of BBQ and elk dogs on the grill outside.

This is a ski in, ski out restaurant. Get on lift 4 to top of mtn and ski down Village Bypass.
Has an outdoor smoke house that wasn’t open when I ate there. Outdoor seating area with picnic tables. Also an outdoor fire pit with lounge chairs.
Indoor seating is plenty spacious.
Totally a great place to hang out. The only problem I can see is if you are a total non-​skiier, I’m not sure how you would get to the restaurant.
With just excellent views of the mtns and a captive audience, who cares about the quality of the food?!
Yes, all items were expectantly overpriced but surprisingly, the quality of the pulled pork sandwich with a side of cole slaw was delicious.
A worthy stop to refuel or end the day after skiing!

In my experience with ski in ski out restaurants, I’ve learned to expect WAY overpriced, marginal food. What you get at Gorrono Ranch is relatively expensive but DELICIOUS food. I guess that’s sort of an overgeneralization, seeing that I got the pulled pork sandwich every day. Even after eating some of the best BBQ of my life the previous week at Union Woodshop in Detroit, I was blown away at this pulled pork – tender and juicy, with some awesome BBQ sauce (with a little kick). Throw on a little coleslaw and you have yourself a perfect sandwich. Oh, and throw in the incredible mountain views that surround you, and I’d say you’ve got yourself a pretty decent lunch spot.
A few notes:
–the pulled pork sandwich is only $ 8.99 – by far the best deal I found on the mountain (unless you are in the mood for a $ 16 Kobe beef sandwich or a $ 10 burger).
–You are better off getting your pulled pork sandwich from the smokehouse, not the main dining portion of the restaurant.

My first ski in ski out restaurant. What fun! We loved eating our grilled ham and cheese sandwiches on the deck while enjoying the magnificent view, watching the skiers go by and listening to an acoustic guitarist/​singer.
Considering how packed this place was our food was quickly prepared (while we watched)…and the service friendly :)
Definitely take lift 4 up the mountain and ski down to Gorrono Ranch if you want a bite with a view to remember.