Colletta brings pasta-focused Italian dining to Avon this summer

Colletta will bring a scratch-made pasta focus to The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa in Avon this summer, turning the former Stoke & Rye space into a destination Italian room with Beaver Creek Mountain and the Eagle River in view.

The new concept from The Indigo Road Hospitality Group is built around house-made pastas, antipasti, wood-fired pizzas and a family-style “For the Table” menu, alongside à la carte dining. The Westin Riverfront says Colletta will occupy the restaurant space that once housed Stoke & Rye, which is being reimagined for an all-new concept in summer 2026.

That matters in Vail Valley because Colletta is being framed as more than a hotel amenity. The restaurant’s mix of shared plates, large-format dining and mountain-facing patio space is aimed at the resort crowd, but it also gives locals in Avon a new Italian room with enough character to pull a drive from outside the property. The setting does a lot of the work: The Westin Riverfront sits on 19 acres in Avon with direct access to Beaver Creek Mountain and the Eagle River, giving Colletta a built-in destination angle that most pasta restaurants simply do not get.

The menu will lean into comfort dishes and regional nods at the same time. Signature plates include Chicken Parmesan, Lasagna Bolognese, Spicy Soppressata Pizza and Polpette, while the Vail Valley-specific lineup also includes Colorado Bass, Ravioli Puttanesca, Elk Saltimbocca and Rabbit Piccata. That combination suggests the kitchen wants to keep the familiar Italian classics front and center while giving the room enough mountain-market specificity to feel rooted in place.

The design follows the same playbook. Colletta will feature mosaic marble tile, rich red textures, exposed brick, a charcuterie bar and a hand-crank Berkel slicer, all of it meant to read as lively rather than formal. The restaurant will also have private-events capability and indoor-outdoor space for larger gatherings, which should make it useful beyond dinner service alone.

Indigo Road says Colletta already operates in Atlanta and Cary, North Carolina, and describes the brand as a Northern-Italian-influenced, community-oriented concept. Steve Palmer, the company’s founder, managing partner and chief vision officer, called the Vail Valley opening a “really special moment” as the group heads west for the first time.

For Avon, that is the real pitch: Colletta is not just another resort dining room, but a pasta-driven arrival with enough view, volume and hospitality muscle to stand on its own in the Vail Valley dining mix.