Cafe Richesse Coffee Roasters is a coffee roaster restaurant in River District, Fort Collins.
Editorially verified August 18, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Why locals love it: A farm-direct Brazilian roastery trading from an industrial unit on short weekday hours; wholesale is the main trade.
Tip: This is a roastery door, not a cafe: weekday hours only, and the beans come from the family's own low-impact Brazilian farms.
Address: 1713 East Lincoln Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80524
The OBC Wine Project is Odell Brewing's urban winery on Lincoln Avenue in Fort Collins, its 2023 Colorado Red a Governor's Cup winner on tap.
Why locals love it: A working winery hidden behind a brewery patio; most visitors stop at the beer and never find the fermenters next door.
Tip: It shares a patio with the Odell taproom, so a flight of Colorado wine and a 90 Shilling can happen in one sitting.
The OBC Wine Project is Odell Brewing's urban winery on Lincoln Avenue in Fort Collins, its 2023 Colorado Red a Governor's Cup winner on tap.
Why locals love it: A working winery hidden behind a brewery patio; most visitors stop at the beer and never find the fermenters next door.
Tip: It shares a patio with the Odell taproom, so a flight of Colorado wine and a 90 Shilling can happen in one sitting.
Waltzing Kangaroo hides an authentic Australian pie shop in Campus West, hand-making steak, curry, chicken and lamb pies in five-inch pastry shells.
Why locals love it: An Australian pie counter in a student-strip block on West Elizabeth; drivers pass it daily without registering it exists.
Tip: Every pie is also sold frozen to take home; the lamb and rosemary is the sleeper order.
Postcard Pan Pizza bakes Detroit-inspired pans only four evenings a week from 133 Remington Street, the address it shares with Equinox Brewing in Old Town.
Why locals love it: No standalone storefront and a Thursday-to-Sunday evening schedule keep it a word-of-mouth find inside a taproom.
Tip: Hours are short, Thursday to Sunday evenings only, and the crispy-edged pans routinely sell through, so go early.
Choice City has cooked American comfort food next door to the historic Armstrong Hotel since 2004, a locals' room that visitors routinely walk past.
Why locals love it: A corner room beside the Armstrong Hotel, it reads as hotel dining from the street and gets skipped for it.
Tip: It sits at Olive and College beside the Armstrong Hotel, so it works equally for a sit-down dinner or a pre-show plate; note the Tuesday closure.
Young's Cafe has long been Fort Collins' Vietnamese standard-bearer on South College Avenue, from crab cheese wontons to the house fried rice.
Why locals love it: It sits in an unglamorous midtown strip mall far from Old Town foot traffic, so visitors rarely find the city's best Vietnamese room.
Tip: Portions run generous and lunch is the value window; the dining room fills with regulars who have come for years.
La Piadina griddles Emilia-Romagna flatbread sandwiches from a container kitchen at The Exchange in Fort Collins, with Italian wine and local beer.
Why locals love it: A container kitchen at The Exchange is easy to dismiss as festival food; the flatbreads are the real Emilia-Romagna article.
Tip: A piadina crisped to order plus a glass of Italian wine on the plaza is one of the city's best cheap dates.
