WEBVTT - Bonus Episode! Traveling Eats With Matt: Behind the Vail 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:04.240 Hi, I'm Matt and I'm Brad. This is part Glandia, 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.120 a production of I Heart Radio. We sold our loft 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:10.000 in Chicago, moving into an RV. Now we're traveling in 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.760 the country full time with our dog Finn, exploring America's 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:16.880 national parks. And today we are doing another episode of 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:28.640 Traveling Eats with Matt. Matt, what are we talking about today? 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:30.280 This is a good one. This is kind of my 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:34.240 dream place. We're talking about Veil, Colorado, literally a dream, 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.040 dream place. This is the type of place where if 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.199 I win the lottery, I almost said when I win 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.320 the lottery, right, So if I win the lottery, I 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:47.000 would totally buy like some serious property here because it's 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.199 like Mountaintown Paradise. That really doesn't get much better than this. 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.960 So Veil is like what a couple of hours drive 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.840 from Denver into the mountains. Yeah, it's not too bad. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.920 It's a couple of hours, like two and a half maybe, 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.760 So as long as you're not going like on a weekend, 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.800 like at the height of weekend traffic to Veil, you'll 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.520 you can get there. We had a rental car for 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.840 this trip, so we didn't we didn't drive the air 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.080 V up here either. Yeah, so I've been to Veil 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.800 a couple of times, both in the summer, so I 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.200 have not been here in the winter for skiing or anything. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.039 And this is primarily known as I think, like a 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.399 bougie skiing mecca people. It's right up there with Aspen 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.000 and breck and Ridge and Park City and whatnot. And 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.560 I would absolutely love to be here in the winter 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.720 and do some of that, But my two experiences with 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.480 the Veil have been in the summer, and this is 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.480 a mind blowing the beautiful place in the summer, and 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:46.000 it's also incredibly delicious with really specific and interesting history. 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.480 Although short a pretty recent history. It's not nearly as 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:54.280 old as like Asthmen or Park City or most other 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.480 kind of iconic skiing mountain pounds. Yeah, it's kind of 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:02.680 funny like that between like as Been Veil and Breckon Ridge. Um, 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.760 it's like that Disney movie Johnny Tsunami, like when we 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.880 were kids, Like the snowboarders were like the Breckenridgers and 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.800 then the skiers were the Veil like crowd. But even 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.000 like above that, I guess, like Aspen, like they all 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.000 like talked down each other. It's crazy so weird. Yeah 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.600 I never saw that movie or TV show or whatever, 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.160 but yeah, they do have an interesting relationship. And what 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:27.560 makes Veiled so distinct and so fascinating is compared to 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.559 those two and a lot of other places that originated 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.040 as like mining towns, like hundreds of years ago, this 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.920 is much more recent. This was never a mining town. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:41.440 It kind of blossomed fresh from nothing in the in 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.160 the nineteen sixties because it was envisioned as a great 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:49.040 location for more skiing and potential resorts and stuff like that. 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.600 And the town's founders wanted to create something reminiscent of 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:58.560 Bavarian culture and the Alps in Austria, and it just 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.280 the location and in the atmosphere here just really fit that. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.000 And that's what they did. They envisioned it, and they 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.919 constructed this town to echo that. And it's that's why 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.720 it's so beautiful and so unique, is it's a little 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.360 slice of the Alps in the rocky mountains and it's amazing. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.079 I love it so much. I could just wander around 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.440 here in awe and that's exactly what I do. So 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.600 my first time here in Vale was a couple of 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:28.480 years ago in September, like early September, nice and warm, 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.720 perfectly sunny, and it was a lot of out plenty 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.040 of outdoor activities. Still, the hiking is amazing on Vale Mountain. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.560 Lots of trails you can do, fly fishing in rivers 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.880 and Gore Creek which runs right through Vale and Vale 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.839 Village beautiful, such a beautiful creek, yes, And other water 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.880 activities like rafting and kayaking, canoeing, stuff like that. Really 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.360 anything in great leaf peeping in the fall to September October, 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.680 the aspen trees are so beautiful, like bright yellow. So 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:00.840 the thing that I wanted to talk about and focus 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:05.360 on today, obviously this is traveling eats, is the food 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.840 culture here and the delightful restaurant and bar steam that 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.640 Vale has because for a town that's not very big, 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.840 it certainly has a lot in the restaurants I think 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:23.359 are world class. Yeah, there's restaurants right right, so a 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:27.080 lot of them reminiscent or in line with this kind 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:32.799 of Bavarian theme of the whole community. They have, unsurprisingly 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.599 a lot of restaurants that are like Austrian or German 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:40.320 or you know, serving things like fun do and schnitzel 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.560 and nice hardy like alpine mountain food, which is so wonderful. 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.200 We kind of rarely eat stuff like that because it's 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.040 not very common place. We don't see it on the road. 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.400 But this is one of those places where not only 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.440 you can find it, but it's in abundance, much to 0:04:55.480 --> 0:05:00.440 our delight. So I wouldn't like I think my favorite. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.240 And I've been here twice. I was here on my 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.160 own first for my work trip, and then we went 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.800 back together when we were here in I think it 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.560 was June, and it's this restaurant called alm Resi A 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.320 L M R E s I. It's in Veil Village, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.479 So Veil is first, is kind of divitd into two 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:23.200 main sections. There's Veil Village and Lion's Head Village, and 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.040 there's other other parts of it too, but those are 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.200 the two main hearts of Veil, and that's where most 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.359 of the restaurants and businesses are. So am Rezi is 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:37.000 in Veil Village. It's this like heartwarmingly cozy restaurant run 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.479 by a family of um a German family who moved 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.480 here because they were so smitten with the rocky mountains. 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.960 While they're vacationing here, which is understandable but that's also yeah, 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.360 they were they uprooted their life and they came here 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:54.600 and they wanted to bring a taste of home with them, 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.560 and they're sharing their culture and their recipes with us 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.680 at this restaurant, which is located on the second floor 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.360 of a building like right and Veil Village, so you're 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:10.080 kind of you're going up there. It's the like snuggist, warmest, 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.279 most welcoming little place. It really kind of feels like 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:16.000 an alpine cottage or something. It has lots of dark 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:20.159 wood paneling and a paste a huge pastry counter filled 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.919 with things like strudles, and then there's a ton of 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.000 cuckoo clocks to which are a real trade. You don't 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:32.440 see those very often. Yeah, like intricate, intricately carved cuckoo 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.280 clocks of all shapes and sizes. And then they even 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.599 have like when if you do shots here, they have 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:43.320 these cute little glass boot shaped shock classes that are 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.839 specifically designed for doing shots of like snops. I love 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:52.520 it so much, and there's no yeah, that's a whole 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:56.520 another thing, but you should by all means do shots 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.799 of snaps out of little boots because it's as tasty 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.200 as it is adorable, and the food here is just really, 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.520 really good. It's the most soulful food that I've had 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:10.680 in a while, and you can really taste like the 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.720 family legacy of these recipes. They're clearly like time worn 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:17.360 and made with love. As cliche as that sounds, but 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.560 it really fits. And there are things like cheese fund 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:25.000 of course, these big buttery pretzels, Swiss potato pancakes. They 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.640 can get topped with things like smoked salmon and then 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:32.200 gigantic like dinosaur sized porchanks. And for the desserts, you 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.080 absolutely have to have some desserts or share it or 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.960 something make room because they're wonderful, like those strudles I mentioned. 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:43.880 Or Their signature is something that's kind of hard to pronounce. 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:49.000 It's called kaiser schmarn. It's an Austrian pancake dessert. Essentially, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.160 it's not one big pancake. They're kind of like little 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:56.320 tiny pancake morsels and they're all dusted with powdered sugar 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:00.840 and served with this tangy tart cherry compot, a nice 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.320 counterbalance to the sugar and like kind of doughy sweetness 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.720 of the pancake. It's really good. The drinks are also 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.960 really amazing, Like this is littal place you go to 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:15.239 have mald wine or glue winus is called, or something 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.160 like what you had which was so cool and really different. 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.000 I've never seen anything like it. It was called another 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:26.240 another really long, hard to pronounce word, faer zangain bell 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:30.000 I don't even that just sounded like dibberish. But it's 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.760 look on the menu for something that is described as 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.840 spicy mould wine with a rum soaked piece of sugar, 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.040 and that sugar is kind of perched on top of 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.480 the mug, so it's dangling over the spiced mald wine. 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.480 And what that does is, once split on fire, it'll 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.720 gradually steadily kind of dripped down into the wine and 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.559 enrich it and sweeten it a little bit. And it's 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:56.520 quite a spectacle and fun to instagram. But be careful 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.320 to drink it cautiously. You don't want to like plunge 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.080 your face into a flaming sugar cube. Then they also 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.760 have things like hot chocolate with rum or black tea 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.360 with from lots of Austrian beers, so plenty of things 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.160 to sip on and saber here. And we could just 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:17.360 come back like easily. Yeah. Another good example in Veil 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.840 in Veil Village is this place called alpin Rose. This 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.600 place has been around for a long time, since nineteen 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:28.640 seventy four. But you know what's really fun about this 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:34.240 is that the al Morezi owners, Um the father, he 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:38.040 came here in four and that's where he went and 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.559 he's loved alban Rose ever since. And so just this 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.400 past year they were like alpin Rose was selling it 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:51.040 and guess who bought it? People absolutely, And that's such 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.439 a fascinating thing because it's like he got inspired so 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.559 much so that he came and opened up his own 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.000 restaurant and now he's buying the one that or his 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.199 family is buying the one that Um was inspired. Yeah. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.080 I mean that's like such a beautiful full circle, Like 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.840 you were saying, that's the dreams. It's like, I just 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.480 love that that's the community that this restaurant tour and 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.880 this family has. It's like they want to make sure 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.760 that they continue to sell that legacy. That's a great thing. 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:22.280 That's a fantastic like that just warms my soul. But yeah, 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.280 so often Rose clearly very inspiring, and it's been around 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.800 a lot longer than most places here. This has been 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.080 an operation, like you said, since nineteen seventy four, which 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.480 is close to the inception of the whole town in general. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:38.080 And it's just this well worn, rustic dining room. It honestly, 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.720 it feels like something out of Frozen. This movie pro 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:45.480 It has that kind of vibe, almost Nordic and really 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.360 dark wood and like, because what's the town of Frozement, 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:53.080 Like I didn't Arabell or something. I don't don't well, 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.160 I'm just recently getting I'm recently getting into Proson. I 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.240 only saw it for the first time like a few 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.880 weeks ago, but allly in before Frozen two came out, 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.040 right yeah, and then we saw Frozen two and no, 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.240 I'm obsessed with it but still kind of piecing things together. 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.080 But it did remind me of that, and it reminded 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:10.880 me of like the Frozen redded upcot. So this is 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.520 all very fresh and I obviously love anything that reminds 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:18.840 me of a Disney movie, especially Frozen, and Alpin Rose 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.679 is really great. The food totally matches that ambiance too, 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.680 with rich things and meaty things like brought worst and 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:30.720 sauerkraut and cheesy spait ceil lots of German beer, and 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.720 of course you can get German beer served in those 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:39.320 huge overwhelming Stein's great for cheers ing and chugging. Yeah. 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.360 And then another like Veil classic that's been around for 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:46.920 a long time is this place called Peppi's Bar and Restaurant. 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:52.000 And this is another decades old place with all those cozy, 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.679 charming vibes. And this one is named for an Austrian 0:11:55.760 --> 0:12:01.559 skier named Peppie Graham Shammer, which great name, my gosh. Yeah, 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.360 And so he was an international racer on the Austrian 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.520 ski team in the fifties and that's who inspired the 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.360 name of this restaurant. So today and ever since its inception, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.440 it's been family run. It's one of those places where 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:18.120 the walls are pretty much lined with taxidermy, and then 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:23.040 the dishes are basically also filled with taxidermy, because there 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.760 are things like cariboo with sweet potato puree, oven roasted duck, 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.000 and then lamb with smashed potatoes. So it's very meaty. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.079 They have a lot of game meat here especially, and 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:38.040 altogether it's a very like kind of woodsy current verse vibe. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:44.480 I love it. It was such an amazing place about 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.640 because I've been like dreaming of going here, and of 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.120 course you're describing it, and I'm like, can we go back? 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:52.680 I need to go here. That's exactly the type of food, 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:57.000 especially in winter, because it gets cold here, it gets snowy. 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.280 And that makes sense why all this food, all these 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:05.280 restaurants are so hardy, because in meaty, Because that's exactly 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.320 the type of thing you should be eating or craving 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:11.400 when it's the forecast is as frightful as it gets here. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.200 Not to sound too much like your Christmas Carol, but 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.200 that's what it is. You are listening to park Landia 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:28.280 from my Heart Radio. Hi, I'm Matt and I'm Brad. 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:32.080 This park Landia. Um So not everything in Veil is 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:36.120 Bavarian or Austrian. Of course, the architecture all looks like that, 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:41.120 But like the restaurants and breweries and bars and coffee 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.680 shops like they do some really contemporary creative things as well, 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.040 which is very on par with things we've seen in 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.800 big cities. Yeah, like Veil Brewing Company, my favorite. I've 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.240 been here a few times. Anytime I'm in Valle I 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.880 need to go here, perfect after like a high or 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.080 tripped down the slopes. It's just the perfect placed online 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.120 no matter at the time I've year. It's very casual, 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.360 very a very welcoming tap room. The people who work 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.000 here are very informative, great at like providing suggestions, giving 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:12.320 you like sample pores, stuff like that, and also like 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.760 I've brought my laptop here and gotten some work done too. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.720 So it's it's one of those like chill tap rooms 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:18.800 that I just love to hang out in and have 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.480 a couple of beers because they do some really interesting things. 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.240 They have the classics and they have like a handful 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.920 of beers that are always available. But then they do 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:31.400 really fun things with seasonal bruise as well, Like they 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.040 do something called pour some syrup on me or pour 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.920 some syrup on me whatever. Yeah, and that's they call 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.800 that their French toast out, so like notes of like 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:45.880 maple and cinnamon and a little sweet rich. It sounds 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:50.080 great like breakfast in a pine class I love it. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.200 And then they do this is kind of more up 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.160 in my alley. They do something called soul Blossom stays On, 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.480 which is brewed with orange blossom, honey and alderflower. So 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.800 I love things that are like kind of lighter and 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.880 floral hint of sweetness, and then they have the tourist 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:10.560 tourist trap double tap. Yeah, that is very much on 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.560 my alley because I mean I love apias, especially love 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.000 double I pa s, and I love tourist traps, so 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.960 all of it it's like speaking my language. And I 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.440 would highly recommend going here and sampling the warest because 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.160 it's all really good. But if you want a coffee 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.200 to start off your day or a cocktail the end 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.040 your night, you have this beautiful place. We have one 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:33.120 place that solves all those cravings, and that's this place 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.120 in Veil Village called Two Arrows Coffee, the one to 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.520 hit a Veil great. Yeah, I love a place. I 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.080 love any type of place that's like coffee shop by 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.840 day and then it morphs into something else like wine bar, 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.960 cocktail bar, tapas bar, whatever. And in Veil this is 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.720 like the spot for that. It's a very like contemporary 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.240 chic space. It's kind of small and snug with a 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.200 little bar not too big, which is great, like probably 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.400 people could fit in right. It's intimate and I love that. 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.000 And in the mored I think my favorite is in 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.280 the morning when it's kind of bustling a little bit. 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.520 People like kind of streaming in and out getting their 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.400 coffee or latte's or like avocado toasts and stuff. And 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.200 I like to just perch myself at the bar sip 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.600 on a turmeric latte, which they have here. I can 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.880 never say no to a termeric latte and have something 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.840 like Keno breakfast bowl or a pastry or something they do. 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.400 You know, they have a cud of toast, which is 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.520 always great. Yeah, totally, and then come back a few 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:33.520 hours later in the afternoon or evening and this. We 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.640 love places where we can just like chill out and 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.240 have a drink or two and then snack as opposed 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:42.040 to like a robust meal. And yeah, they had like 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:47.360 hummus cheese kurds with country ham olives always always a hit. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.280 Just give me a plate of olives and I'm excellent compliment. 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.440 The blood tenders are knowledgeable. Um like I ordered off 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.920 many of cray and oh my gosh, I'm always so embarrassed. 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:59.360 You like whenever you order off many of them? Just 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.440 like I always like, no, no, look, I love my 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.560 vook raze. It's like if an old fashioned in a 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.160 Manhattan had a baby, you got a booky, but it's 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.639 like one of those off my new drinks that you 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.479 have to be wary of where you're ordering because some 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.960 people have no idea what you're talking about. Just kidding, 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:21.040 I'll like, some people know exactly what you're talking about 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.400 them whip it up, no problem. Other people are just like, 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:28.160 what like because it doesn't sound super popular, it's not. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:30.679 But this is the type of place where you can 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.080 safely order off menu and they will not only know 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.560 what you're talking about, but they'll be able to do 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.800 it justice all the classics. You know, I really loved 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:43.720 our hotel. Oh yeah, so this was the dream I 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:47.119 guess staycation or whatever, because living on the road, we 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.879 have quote unquote staycations in random places because all of 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.080 a sudden, the countries just are you know, rambling home 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:58.120 and and so we just sometimes like bigger spaces, new spaces, 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:01.120 and so, you know, once a month or every other month, 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.320 we'll just get a hotel for a couple of nights 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.320 and just treat ourselves. Yes, and it feels really good, 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.679 especially in a place like Veil, and especially at a 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:13.480 place like the hotel to Lisa, which was everything and 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:17.320 more because this sort of a place where like the 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:21.560 bed is the size of our RV and it's super 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.920 dog friendly. Finn was on cloud nine because he's very 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.879 pampered there. They do dog room service. They bring treats 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:33.159 and toys and even full blown meals. We don't do 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.200 room service much, but we definitely did some service and 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.240 damage and into like our robes and just had Finn 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.200 and like ordered room service and realized that we spent 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.560 way too it's money and it was it was ridiculous 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:47.720 excited and I'm like, oh, I can't wait for room 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.840 service and bathrobes. And then like two dollars later, I'm like, 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.679 well that was the most expensive lunch. But you know what, 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.600 like we don't do this off now. It's not like 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:01.040 we're all the time, but in a while in Rome 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.960 or when in Veil, yeah do it. And this is 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:09.600 also my favorite aspect of this hotel is the champagne 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:13.000 vending machine. That was, Yeah, that is a real thing 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.040 and that exists here and it's in the lobby. It's 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:17.840 this vending machine. It looks like a sort of it 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:22.080 like you know, kind of fancier. Yeah, so mini bottles 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:26.040 of Moa and Shandon champagne. They come in both Brute 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:28.959 and Rose and you get it. Bet we got one 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.920 of each of the multiple times, so you get it. 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.560 It's like not a traditional vending machine as you might 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.040 have guests. So you go to the bar, the main 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.600 lobby bar, and what you do is you get a 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.080 token of some sort from the bartender, so you essentially 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.760 like pay there, get a token, and use that token 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:48.360 to redeem in the vending machine. I just look, it's 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:52.800 like so crazy and wonderful to do something like this. 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:58.240 It's I've never and it's the only champagne vending machine 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.280 of its kind in Colorado, one of the only a 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.600 few in the entire country. So it's a rare treat. 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.920 And it's just it was beautiful because, um, the gore 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.720 rivers right behind it, right that another favorite aspect of 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:14.240 that hotel. And there's like definitely different restaurants and um, 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:18.680 like there's even some like outfitters, Um good stuff shopping, 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:23.520 amazing fun unique stuff. Right, So this is not your 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.359 stuff that you canna find in like every store, No, 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.240 of course not. So this is like I'm obsessed with 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:33.440 Bale because of reasons like this, where trails, walking trails, 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:37.159 hiking trails are so omnipresent like this made me so 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:39.840 happy to walk out the back of our hotel. There's 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.959 the paved biking walking trail right there that runs the 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:45.920 length of Gore Creek into a Lion's Head Village, through 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.679 Allion's Head Village and then all the way through Bale Village. 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.080 And it's not terribly long, it's probably like a mile 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.880 and a half or a couple of miles, but it's 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:57.840 so convenient and so pretty. The creek is the most 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:01.119 beautiful thing, lined with like the green tallest trees. And 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:04.159 then you can also use this trail to like branch 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:06.639 off into hiking trails up the mountain and stuff like that. 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:09.760 Plenty of those, So whether you want to wander into 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:13.119 town and go to restaurants or bars, or the farmer's market, 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:16.240 which is great. Yeah, the farmer's market is wonderful. Um. 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.400 That's actually what brought us up there for this weekend 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:22.840 was I was training some people for Burton's Mapewood Farm 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:25.640 because they sell at the local farmers market there. Um, 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:28.440 And that's when I first met Brad Markinson. He's a 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:32.520 Colorado Native and really awesome human being in person, and 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:36.400 so he's been representing the farm and that worked out 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:38.280 really well. You know. UM, so if you need some 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:40.920 pure or barely it's maple syrup, you know where to 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:44.000 go when you're in bale, and believe me, they'll give 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:46.760 you samples so you can try it. And it's wonderful. 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:50.000 But there's so many great things and that Farmer's market 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:53.400 like our friends, uh great fruit which is uh, you're sorry, 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:57.320 great roots, which is a horse radish. Um. Matt isn't 0:21:57.359 --> 0:21:59.320 the biggest fan of horse radish, but even this one 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:03.959 that he loves in speciates and it's just wonderful. So 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:08.679 there's so many different aspects to veil UM. So outside 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:10.239 of even restaurants, you know, you can get your all 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:13.240 year old local ingredients and make your own meals, you know, 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:15.320 if you wanted to. And you know, I think it 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:19.800 runs every Sunday UM throughout the warmer months. It's not 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:23.400 really a winter market. It's not a good place for that. 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:27.359 It gets really and you don't want to be like 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:29.800 slopping and sliding through the Farmer's Market. And when you 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:33.520 went you uh, the first time you went to um 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:37.760 October Fest and you were killing it, loving it so much, 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:39.840 involved in that and I was like you were telling 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:41.840 me about it, and I'm just like, stop, Well, I 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:44.359 got the most amazing the variant hat that I was 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:48.800 rocking throughout october Fest, and I wish I could wear 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:51.440 that on a more regular basis without looking like a cartoon. 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:55.760 But it's it's great. It's good for you to well. 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:59.080 October Fest is a really big deal in veil as 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:02.080