Treat Yourself at the Best Cafes in Crested Butte!

After finding elephant Crested Butte luxury vacation rentals with Crested Butte Property Management such as Academy Place, it is time to explore Crested Butte! Treat yourself to amazing treats at the best cafes in Crested Butte and have the time of your life. Exploring all the fun things to do in Crested Butte is easy with Crested Butte Property Management. At Crested Butte Property Management, your comfort is our priority.

Browse our list of amazing cafes you can treat yourself to while taking in the green mountains, and feel free to check out the Crested Butte Nordic Center while you’re at it.

Paradise Cafe

Located on 435 6th Street, Paradise Cafe is a renowned stop for their Maui pancakes and bloody marys. The cafe is open daily for both breakfast and lunch. Paradise Cafe promises a good time with picture-worthy meals that look so splendidly good you’d almost feel guilty eating them. You can choose to have a dine-in experience or use the outdoors and enjoy the amazing Crested Butte views. Paradise Cafe has an exquisite menu to serve guests of all ages and food cravings. Their menu is carefully separated into breakfast, lunch, and drinks. Their breakfast menu includes delicacies such as the famous eggs benedict, Migas, Huevos Rancheros, Sonora, omelets, sundaes, breakfast salad, hot oatmeal, and Migas.

Be sure to try out their pancakes and french toast in the basic menu listing served with syrups or a batter of your choice. The restaurant’s lunch menu is heavy with a variety of delights such as the paradise burger, grilled cheese, chicken tenders, patty melt, chicken salad sandwich, and avocado delight salads. Make sure you seal in your lunch with the soup of the day. The menu also boasts a variety of coffee, soft drinks, and blended drinks as well as alcoholic drinks with a twist at the bar.

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Camp 4 Coffee

Camp 4 Coffee is one of the exquisite Crested Butte cafes located on 402 1/2 Elk Avenue and run by a team of coffee experts obsessed with and passionate about coffee. The team makes use of their passion to deliver quality drinks made with love and skill. The cafe was founded by a group of mountaineers to provide energizing coffee for other mountaineers, bikers, dreamers, and artists at the Mt. Crested Butte bus stop. The shop’s objective surpassed expectations to become a reputable cafe known for unique coffee drinks. At the cafe, you can enjoy a drink made from hand-roasted beans and with a unique recipe.

At the shop, you get to enjoy a hot cup of joe and make friends with the shop’s owner and happy employees. You can order their hand-roasted beans to take to family and friends back home. Camp 4 Coffee welcomes you for a taste of their famous recipe of a cup of joe daily. Having been in operation since 1993, the coffee shop owners have expanded their menu to provide accompaniments to their renowned coffee. You can enjoy espresso drinks of your choice and have them hot or warm to go.

You can also choose a drip coffee and smoothies to go. Remember to also order cookies, sweet pastries, and donuts, and don’t feel shy about requesting them to be reheated if you like your pastries hot. A delightful entry on the shop’s menu is their coffee beans. You can take away the shop’s signature blend, Sledgehammer, made with Sumatran, Costa Rican, Guatemalan, and Brazilian beans. Other varieties are the medium-dark Silverhammer, Art of Darkness made from French-roasted Sumartan and Costa Rican beans, and Blue Mesa with an exotic taste from Ethiopian and Columbian beans.

Rumors Coffee and Tea House

Rumors Coffee and Tea House is an espresso bar with a unique history and story. The shop was founded in 2019 by two bean enthusiasts, Danica and Arvin Ram to provide a cup of coffee, loose-leaf teas, and other amazing beverage varieties to book lovers and friends in need of a cozy chat. Rumors add to the shop’s buzz by hosting live music and art events that make the cafe a great meeting place.

The owners’ love for beans is distinctly expressed in the shop’s menu. Their main offerings are Coffee, Drip Coffee, Americano, Double Espresso, Cappuccino, Latte, and Mocha. The cafe’s specialty drinks include Green Tea Latte made with sweet Matcha, Hot Cocoa, Mexican Hot, cocoa, Chai Latte, and Organic Apple Cider.

The shop allows you to personalize your drink with choices such as having the drink iced and with flavors such as the usual Vanilla and Caramel. A more extravagant Hazelnut, Peppermint, Pumpkin Spice, and Raspberry flavor is also available. You can choose from whole, 2%, skim, coconut, soy, or almond milk to add to your drink. Browse their chai menu that boasts varieties such as Bhakti Chai Latte, Honey Vanilla Chai Latte, Chair 9 Chai, and Sherpa Chai. Browse through the cafe’s loose-leaf tea selections served straight from the pot. The shop also offers pastries such as muffins, donuts, cookies, and croissants as well as burritos to add to the deliciousness as you chug down your drink of choice.

The shop sits right adjacent to Townie Books where all the book lovers in Crested Butte find their next story and slide into Rumors Coffee and Tea House for an energizing cup. At the bookshop, you’ll find an unimaginable library of books, both modern and older editions. The combination of drinks and books is guaranteed to make you a reader and lover of beans! Find this remarkable cafe 1.5 blocks west of the 4-way stop at 414 Elk Avenue in downtown Crested Butte. Walk in any day and make friends and memories with a cup of coffee or tea.

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McGill’s

McGill’s is a creativity hub found at 228 Elk Ave, Crested Butte, CO where you can find amazing breakfast and lunch entrees served with a creative twist. The cafe is run under a strict code of delivering quality meals to customers who will live to remember McGill’s as the place where they had the best breakfast or lunch. The cafe’s menu is vibrant and lit with a twist to common dishes. Enjoy a variety of creatively made omelets, scromelettes, benedicts, and breakfast sammys. For those with a sweet tooth, choose from their sweet pancakes, french toast, cinnamon rolls, and gluten-free pancakes.

You can go light with either a cold bowl of cereal, oatmeal, or yogurt mixed with granola and berries. McGill’s guarantees a memorable experience for customers of all ages by including a children’s breakfast and lunch menu with all the things kids like. You can also enjoy the house specialties such as the haystack, breakfast burrito, all-American breakfast, biscuits and gravy, and many more amazing dishes.

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