Durango restaurants and breweries
Compare a reservation dinner at Chimayo or Ore House with Durango’s brewpubs, Himalayan cooking, food trucks, green chile, and an easy breakfast before the road or railroad.
Dinner in Durango
Main Avenue gives dinner a Southwestern starting point at Chimayo, but that need not set the menu for every night. Ore House makes a steak-and-seafood occasion of it; Himalayan Kitchen brings curries, momo, and tandoori dishes to the choice. Pick the food you want, rather than making every evening another brewpub meal.
Choose Chimayo for stone-fired Southwestern cooking and mezcal cocktails on Main Avenue. Choose Ore House for a traditional steak-and-seafood dinner in the historic district. These are meals to give their own place in the evening, rather than squeeze between other plans. For a busy summer, fall-color, or holiday weekend, look into reservations ahead of the trip.
Beyond steak and brewery menus
Nepalese and Indian cooking offers an alternative to steakhouse and brewery meals. Curries, momo, and tandoori dishes are the reason to choose Himalayan Kitchen; its vegetarian choices also make it worth considering when steakhouse menus do not suit the whole table.
Courtyard or tavern
At 11th Street Station, a converted service-station courtyard brings rotating food trucks and a bar together. That variety is the draw when everyone wants something different. El Rancho offers another kind of casual meal: burgers, green chile, and drinks in a Main Avenue tavern. Choose between several menus around a courtyard and a tavern meal, not between two versions of the same dinner.
Breakfast, house beer, and the river
Durango’s beer stops need not all serve the same purpose. Carver brings breakfast and lunch to Main Avenue, Steamworks pairs a downtown dinner with house beer, and Animas Brewing puts a taproom near the river trail. Ska is the separate brewery destination south of downtown.
Carver Brewing combines breakfast, lunch, and house beer on Main Avenue. Steamworks is the downtown choice for a full food menu alongside the beer, with the depot and Main Avenue hotels nearby. The distinction is the meal: a daytime stop at Carver, or a brewpub dinner at Steamworks.
Animas Brewing is a smaller taproom near the Animas River Trail, with house beer and pub food. Its location gives a river walk or bike ride a natural meal stop without making Main Avenue the center of every outing.
Known for Mexican Logger, Ska Brewing is a production brewery with a large taproom south of downtown. Choose it when the brewery is the destination, rather than another stop on a Main Avenue walk. Arrange a ride if you plan to drink.
Confirm menus, hours, reservations, and current tap lists directly with each business before the weekend.
