The Address That Never Changes
103 W Colorado Avenue has housed a saloon since the 1880s, when Telluride was a mining camp of a different kind of fortune-seeker. The building's bones — pressed tin ceilings, a bar worn smooth by a century of elbows, the kind of wood that absorbs decades of smoke and conversation — give the Floradora Saloon a density of character that no new-build mountain restaurant can approximate. The Floradora name entered the picture in 1973, a family-owned operation that has now served long enough to have regulars whose parents were regulars, whose children will become regulars in their own time.
The kitchen operates in the tradition of the American saloon at its most competent: burgers, sandwiches, salads, and comfort dishes executed with the confidence that comes from four decades of pra