Our experience as a family with the Redstone Inn goes back to the 1980's when we would often drive up for Sunday dinner. I've also stayed at the Inn before and enjoyed myself immensely. This time I was joined by my two sons for our first family Christmas in over a decade. That alone would have made it wonderful, but there can be no more comfortable, warm, friendly and Christmas-y place in Colorado than the historic Redstone Inn!
We had Christmas Eve dinner in the dining room. The food was fantastic... I had the evening's special -- elk medallions in an amazing blueberry sauce, with potatoes au gratin and carrots. One of my sons had the Rib Eye steak and pronounced it perfectly cooked and delicious. We were looking forward to breakfast in The Grill but, we all overslept and didn't make the 10:30 cut-off time. The Grill would be open for lunch shortly, but we needed to check out and move on with our day.
Oh, we also enjoyed the most beautiful live dinner music on Christmas Eve. Piano and vocals were courtesy of John Rigger, a legendary valley musician who is also becoming world famous by teaching music teachers around the world how to teach jazz to children. Herbie Hancock has thanked him for that!