Steamboat Springs Family Restaurants

Thin-crust pizza and stromboli, made with homemade dough and baked in a brick oven, are the highlights there, but the pasta menu is extensive, and the seafood special changes nightly. It's open daily for lunch and dinner, with an expansive patio for warm-weather days.

This is a classic 1950's-style diner with Art Deco decor: stainless-steel stools, black and white floor tiles, vinyl booths, memorabilia on the walls. Typical, greasy-spoon diner food is served there for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Menu items include everything from Eggs Benedict (several ways), pancakes, and biscuits and gravy to sandwiches, burgers and chicken-friend steak. Save room for a thick milkshake.

Children fit right in at this Italian restaurant that encourages guests to "eat big, talk loud." Everything on the menu is made in-house with all natural ingredients. Dishes include plenty of pasta and pizza options, plus steak and chicken entrees. It's open for dinner; no reservations are required.

This affordable eatery, at the base of Steamboat Ski Area, features comfort-food appetizers (artichoke dip, nachos, "potato stuffers"), plus brick-oven pizzas, "famous" baby-back ribs, pasta dishes and burgers. This is a very popular spot for apres-ski. This place serves lunch and dinner year-round.

Sliced brisket, pulled pork, pork ribs, turkey and chicken are hickory-smoked in a pit barbecue at this locals' favorite, where the peanuts are complimentary and you can toss the shells on the floor. Kids' menus include palate-pleasing hot dogs, grilled cheese sandwiches and chicken strips. Groups of eight or more can eat family-style: choose three meats and two sides in family portions to share.