Ricochet Café & Terrasse

A hazelnut café glacé is the drink worth crossing the terrace for at Fairmont Tremblant’s café, which sits at the foot of the mountain with the pool terrace on one side and ski-in access on the other.

A resort café at the foot of the mountain

Ricochet is a Fairmont Tremblant coffee shop on the Terrace level, built for movement rather than lingering. Coffee, cold drinks and lunch on the go are what it does, and the ski-in, ski-out adjacency explains the shape: quick-access service before, during and after time on the mountain.

The name is literal about the setting. “Terrasse” matches both the terrace-level position and the hotel pool terrace next to it, and that is the difference between this and a street café: the room exists to serve people crossing between hotel, mountain, pool and village.

Counter service, casual and quick

The format is informal. Counter service, a relaxed atmosphere, and food and drinks put together for guests moving through Tremblant rather than settling into a dining room. It is scenic and friendly in the way resort cafés are, with the mountain doing the heavy lifting on atmosphere.

That role is also its limit, in a useful way. It is not built for a long meal and does not try to be. It is the stop between one thing and the next, which is what a busy resort base needs at the bottom of the hill.

Order the hazelnut café glacé first

The hazelnut café glacé is the drink most closely tied to Ricochet, and it is the one to order first: cold, sweet and easy to carry out onto the terrace. Beyond it the drinks list stays broad, coffee and specialty coffees and cold refreshments, made to be handed over quickly.

Food follows the same logic. A pre-made sandwich is the clearest order, with baked goods and portable items alongside. The café’s strengths are location, speed, the coffee and that hazelnut café glacé, taken between one Tremblant activity and the next.