Pasta is for the skier that has a few more days in a row to ski. Nothing works as well (or tastes as good) when you need to carbo-load on the cheap. Plus, this is probably the easiest apres-food that you can do at the condo or bunk house. That's not to say you can't go high-end and ski into a fancy slopeside Italian restaurant. There are so many options for pasta as an apres food -- it's easy to see why it made our list.
Where to Find: Auntie Pasta's, Snowshoe Mountain, WV
Follow it With: Garlic Bread, salad, sausages; the works.
Where to Find: Auntie Pasta's, Snowshoe Mountain, WV
Follow it With: Garlic Bread, salad, sausages; the works.
Although it may be near the bottom of our list, Onion Rings should not be left out of any avid skiers apres items. Nor should any other fried item. Hot, crispy, and delicious with different kinds of sauces, these rings could not be worse for you but taste so good. Plus, they'll give you such good breath you'll have no trouble picking up that snow bunny you've been eyeing.
Where to Find: Davanza's, Park City, UT
Follow it With: Surprisingly enough, either pizza or tacos at this Old Town restaurant.
Where to Find: Davanza's, Park City, UT
Follow it With: Surprisingly enough, either pizza or tacos at this Old Town restaurant.
The reason why fondue is so great after skiing is because its simple. Warm cheese with some veggies and pieces of bread can fill you up and get you ready for a night of drinking very quickly. Cheese isn't the only type either. Enjoy this Swiss meal with hot oil and meats or chocolate. This apres food is by far the highest-class item in our Top 10, but that's okay. You can't live off of grease forever.
Where to Find: The Restaurant Swisspot, Stowe, VT
Follow it With: Chocolate fondue with fruit and many different kinds of chocolate.
Where to Find: The Restaurant Swisspot, Stowe, VT
Follow it With: Chocolate fondue with fruit and many different kinds of chocolate.
Skiers may love the snow, but most of us do not love the cold. Soup and Chili are the perfect answers to these problems at the end of a day of frostbitten noses and numb toes. If it's been a really good day, you'll be able to feel the warm liquid move down your throat and fill your belly. If it's a really, really good day, the soup or chili came in a bread bowl. There's nothing quite as genius as edible dishes.
Where to Find: The Goat, Keystone, CO. The title on the outside of the building says it all: "The Goat: Soup and Whiskey."
Follow it With: Whiskey
Where to Find: The Goat, Keystone, CO. The title on the outside of the building says it all: "The Goat: Soup and Whiskey."
Follow it With: Whiskey
Whoever came up with this concoction deserves a huge medal. Fries alone are simply not enough to kill that after-skiing hunger, and most of the time, neither is chili. But together, with their friend, cheese, apres munchies no longer exist. The editors at SkiNet like to take it a step further and throw in some Fritos as well. Mmm crunchy, sloppy, greasy, cheesy goodness.
Where to Find: Jack’s Slope Side, Copper Mountain, CO
Follow it With: What more could you want really, besides more?
Where to Find: Jack’s Slope Side, Copper Mountain, CO
Follow it With: What more could you want really, besides more?
The Italians are on to something. What they created as a high-calorie snack before meals, we've turned into an ultimate apres-ski indulgence. Like most everything else on our list, it is highly customizable and is pretty hard to screw up. You'll be hard-pressed to find a base lodge or apres place without some pizza on the menu. It's cheap for restaurants and cafes to make, easy to find ski-bums to serve it, and delicious in all its varieties.
Where to Find: The Legendary Beau Jo's, Idaho Springs, Durango, and Steamboat Springs, CO. It's called a Mountain Pie for a reason. If any SkiNet user can finish their challenge, we'll send you some swag.
Follow it With: Honey on the crust. Trust us, it's delicious.
Where to Find: The Legendary Beau Jo's, Idaho Springs, Durango, and Steamboat Springs, CO. It's called a Mountain Pie for a reason. If any SkiNet user can finish their challenge, we'll send you some swag.
Follow it With: Honey on the crust. Trust us, it's delicious.
Whether you're more inclined towards the mini or huge variety- nothing quite kills your appetite like a meaty, greasy, disgusting-ly awesome burger. Ski-town establishments have been fighting for the title of the best burger for decades which has lead to so many varieties, flavors and accessories, it's hard to not go big or go home. Skiing Magazine's Photo Editor, Niall Bouzon, likes his on the gourmet side with cheese, bacon, mushrooms, guac, and sauteed onions. Either way you flip it, you can't go wrong with a burger at apres.
Where to Find: Grumpy's, Ketchum, ID. According to Skiing's Sept. '06 issue, "Don't be distracted by locals in Dave's Drywall sweatshirts or the 32-ounce schooners of beer. You need to focus on the food at this classic Sun Valley grease pit. Whet your appetite with a pickled egg from the bar, and then order a Grumpy's Burger, a half-pound beef patty doused in secret sauce. (Really, it's just ketchup and mayonnaise.)"
Follow it With: A giant beer, a shot of whiskey, or a heart attack.
Where to Find: Grumpy's, Ketchum, ID. According to Skiing's Sept. '06 issue, "Don't be distracted by locals in Dave's Drywall sweatshirts or the 32-ounce schooners of beer. You need to focus on the food at this classic Sun Valley grease pit. Whet your appetite with a pickled egg from the bar, and then order a Grumpy's Burger, a half-pound beef patty doused in secret sauce. (Really, it's just ketchup and mayonnaise.)"
Follow it With: A giant beer, a shot of whiskey, or a heart attack.
Okay, so it's not a food, but it has such a place in apres ski, that we couldn't leave it out. Whether it's a wheat, porter, stout, bottled, on draught or in a Dixie cup, it doesn't matter; it's just not apres ski without a beer in your hand. Skiing Magazine covered the best places to drink, party, and generally let loose in the November 2008 issue, Best Ski-Town Bars. If you're looking for the best places to drink in North America after skiing a full day, check it out. Our favorite place to grab a beer on the international scene is:
Where to Find: Pub Mt. Fort, Verbier, Switzerland. According to Max Bervy, Director of Warren Miller Entertainment, its "close to everything in town. It’s the big mountain skier hang out for après and rages through the night. Lots of English is spoken there. All the Scandos, Aussi’s, UK, US skiers hang there too."
Follow it With: More beer, of course!
Where to Find: Pub Mt. Fort, Verbier, Switzerland. According to Max Bervy, Director of Warren Miller Entertainment, its "close to everything in town. It’s the big mountain skier hang out for après and rages through the night. Lots of English is spoken there. All the Scandos, Aussi’s, UK, US skiers hang there too."
Follow it With: More beer, of course!
Chicken wings are great any time, but especially perfect after a good, long day of skiing. Why? Because if you've been in freezing temperatures all day at Beaver Creek acting posh, nothing hits the spot quite like a basket of messy, spicy, leave-you-with-side-effects wings. They come in a variety of styles, but the basic principal remains the same; meat you have to tear off a bone, cooked to perfection, then dipped in a sauce you'll be picking out of your beard for weeks. These were the food that created the term "Flavor Saver."
Best Place to Find: Dusty's Bar & Grill, Whistler, BC, According to Editor of Skiing Magazine, Jake Bogoch, this is the "best apres in town."
Follow it With: The biggest wet-nap or napkin you can find.
Best Place to Find: Dusty's Bar & Grill, Whistler, BC, According to Editor of Skiing Magazine, Jake Bogoch, this is the "best apres in town."
Follow it With: The biggest wet-nap or napkin you can find.
Nachos are the best après ski food, for one very simple reason: they have everything in it. Feel like ground beef but don't want to go with a burger? Nachos. Thinking chips and salsa with a little extra pizazz? Nachos. Crazy about cheese? Nachos. This after-skiing snack will get you ready for a night on the town even if you've been doing laps on A-Basin's Pallivincini chair. It has enough carbs, sugars, grease, etc to start those engines when on any other day not skiing, you'd be stopped in your tracks. It just makes us wonder, how could a country come up with such a perfect après food with no skiing in their country?
Best Place to Find: The Mangy Moose, Jackson Hole
Follow it with: What SKi Magazine Managing Editor, Kim Beekman, calls "a healthy pitcher of Snake River IPA."
Disclaimer: You may or may not get fat with these foods.
Best Place to Find: The Mangy Moose, Jackson Hole
Follow it with: What SKi Magazine Managing Editor, Kim Beekman, calls "a healthy pitcher of Snake River IPA."
Disclaimer: You may or may not get fat with these foods.
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