Tin Cup Ice Cream & Desserts — Restaurant in Colorado

This place very much lacks authenticity. I grew up eating pasties. Traditional, Cornish miner style pasties in the upper Midwest, particularly the upper peninsula of Michigan. They are one of my favorite foods, and a beloved regional American cuisine to those familiar with them. I was strolling down main street and saw a pasty shop and got really excited. Then I walked in and looked at the menu and was horrified that a traditional miner pasty is not even on the menu! For those who do not know, the traditional ingredients are beef (Chuck, sometimes steak), potatoes, rutabegas, onions, sometimes carrots. Traditionally you have the choice of whether or not you would like it smothered in brown gravy. This is all entirely absent from the menu.

The menu is quite interesting, very different kinds of pasties like I have never seen before. And yes, I have been in other pasty shops outside the Midwest, even here in Colorado and seen some different interpretations on the dish. The ones here are pretty unique even for Colorado interpretations. This is all fine, experiment all you want, just have some respect for the roots of the tradition you are experimenting with. The miners of 100 years ago definitely were not eating pasties with tofu in them. Not having a real salt-of-the-earth, traditional miner style pasty on the menu is an insult to the dish, the tradition, and the people who invented it and brought it to Colorado many years ago. The lack of respect for a tradition dear to my heart saddens me. I would encourage the owners to honor this tradition. You clearly have an interest in pasties, kudos to you for that! But please at least give your customers the opportunity to experience an authentic pasty. By which I mean something simple with meat and potatoes and no extra frivolous ingredients, like what the miners who invented this dish actually ate. Yes it's simple, but when done correctly, which is difficult, it is...

EDIT post-response:

I actually am a “dairy free friend”—I believe you misread my original review below. I was expressing some constructive criticism that I thought pertinent to the dairy/dairy free confusion. Take it or leave it.

When you walk in, there is a board of flavors. My eyes immediately skipped to the “dairy free” section. Honey lavender was listed. So, I ordered it. . . by its listed name. After she scooped my ice cream and I passed the dairy free section next to the register, I realized I needed to specify and that there were 2 flavors of the exact same name. I only point this out as a potential area of confusion for future customers. I mention it for your benefit. Maybe calling it “dairy free honey lavender” instead of also “honey lavender” would help avoid this in the future.

I apologize, I am only trying to help.

RESUME MY OLD REVIEW:

Ice cream was great and line moved quick. I do want to offer a bit of constructive criticism, however.

Firstly, the flavors we came for (out of nostalgia) were all gone. The winners must be protected and stocked at all costs (honey cinnamon cayenne + the goat cheese cherry).

Second, it is extremely confusing to have duplicate flavors in the dairy free and regular ice cream. I only browsed the dairy free section and quickly found my choice—honey lavender. When I ordered honey lavender, I unknowingly ended up with...

This review is from about 11:30-ish on Wednesday 02/22/2023. Maybe the owner should review any camera footage that maybe available... My cost for that day in lift tickets for my family was over $400. So for the 7 hours of skiing availability that my family could have access to, breaks down to roughly $57 an hour, or about $1 a minute. This review is based on the 8-10 minutes that we stood in line waiting for the cashier to finish with her phone and counting coins from some previous sale. It's obvious that she already knew how much coinage value she had or she wouldn't have completed that sale. Next time put that coin money in a cup, set it aside until you're not busy and actually help customers that are waiting in line. I can assure you we would have spent more $$$ than what was in coin value that she was counting. We were eventually helped. But an apology after waiting on the cashier to count coinage really doesn't seem sincere. We asked a couple of merchandise questions, and then left. If there had been a true "situation" like an angry customer or a spill or something else truly pressing, I would have been more receptive to the excessive wait. But waiting on someone to count pennies and dimes. Uh no...

On a sincerely positive note, your establishment does smell...