Posted below dated 2018.
A whopping 13 new restaurants have opened – or are scheduled to open soon – in Aspen and Snowmass, just in time for lift lines.
* Aiming for a mid-December launch in the New Snowmass Base Village, Junk, whose tag line reads, “Good Junk, Bad Junk, (the only junk your mom will let you eat),” will offer “farm-to-fork” cooking. It comes courtesy of chef Allison Richman, whose kitchen cred includes time at Tantillo’s on the Bay in San Francisco and XYZ in New York.
* Richman also plans to unleash Liquid Sky (New Snowmass Base Village), a sizzle-and-swank apres ski hang, complete with an indoor-outdoor lounge, all-day dining and DJ booths.
* More than 200 flavors of ice cream will be churned out at The Sweet Life (69 Wood Road, Snowmass), a 1950’s-style diner, creamery parlor and candy store that opens later this month.
* Buchi Tavern, a Japanese comfort-food emporium brought to us by Jeffrey Klein, co-creator of Aspen’s Matsuhisa, will mark its grand opening just before Christmas in the New Snowmass Base Village. During the lunch crush, the restaurant will peddle a noodle bar featuring udon bowls, bento boxes and dumplings.
* Klein also has plans to set up a cubicle at The Office (125 Daly Lane, Snowmass), a casual spot that will dish out burgers, rotisserie chicken, pastrami and corned beef sandwiches and salads in the space that formerly held The Cirque. Bonus: Office hours are until 2 a.m. daily.
* Just steps away from the Village Express chairlift, Sneaky’s Tavern (New Snowmass Base Village), a Colorado-style bistro turning out everything from stews and salads to bison meatloaf and beef burgers, is shooting for a late December launch.
* Sam’s Cookhouse, Snowmass’ new $9 million, on-mountain restaurant, is banking on a chat-and-chew crowd to sop up the sauce delivered with its Texas, Carolina and St. Louis-style barbecue.
* In Aspen, a second offshoot of Il Mulino, the incredibly popular New York Old World Italian restaurant, will open in the new Residences at the Little Nell (501 E. Dean St.) in late 2008.
* Meanwhile, Fun Worldwide Lab (414 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen), with its demonstration kitchen, cooking classes, 200 different menus and themed, private dinners, also is scheduled for an end-of- season unveiling.
* Brexi (620 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen), a classic French brasserie from the owners of Wild Fig and LuLu Wilson, is set to open in early 2009.
* Ajax Tavern (685 E. Durant Ave.), which lay dormant for nearly a year because of extensive renovations, is gearing up to reopen its doors for lunch, apres ski and dinner with an expanded indoor bar area and large outside deck.
* Buenos Aires Fusion (308 S. Hunter St.), the third restaurant owned by the clan behind Buenos Aires Pizzeria and Buenos Aires Grill in Denver, opened in July.
* Crystal Palace Grille (300 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen), situated inside the historic Crystal Palace Theatre, let loose in June to crowds clamoring for live piano music, veal chops, slabs of Kobe and Piedmontese beef and house-ground burgers.
From the Rocky Mountain News
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