THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED The Wildflower

THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED The Wildflower Restaurant Review:

Floral-themed and filled with elaborate fresh arrangements, but not fussy, The Wildflower artfully combines a romantic ambience, fine cuisine and traditional service. The menu is thoroughly modern, offering eclectic, seasonally changing contemporary American specialties made with the freshest ingredients---including some from the hotel restaurant's own garden---for one of Vail's best dining experiences. Following the amuse-bouche and perhaps an appetizer, grilled veal medallions, loin of Colorado lamb and wild-caught salmon appear regularly on the menu. Foie gras or truffles are reminders that this is, indeed, an epicurean mecca. The kitchen offers one of the Vail Valley's few tasting menus, a grazing feast of three or five courses that changes daily. Lunch and Sunday Champagne brunch, both only available in summer, bring both more casual service and a melding of indoors and outdoors. White umbrellas on the patio shade tables that nestle among tiered flower gardens. Soups, salads, wraps, sandwiches and light entrées fill the bill, with the Cobb salad a perennial favorite.