{"id":2880,"date":"2011-03-06T12:57:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eataspen.com\/blog\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2011-03-06T12:57:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T19:57:19","slug":"review-of-the-silver-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/review-of-the-silver-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of the Silver Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"

We ate in the bar lounge of the new Aspen Silver Queen restaurant<\/a> this past month. \u00a0The chic streamlined feel gave my date an “at home” feeling. The minimalist bar decor flows into dining room highlighted by the bling of the chandeliers and the best window tables in town. The average age on this particular night was refreshingly younger than one comes to expect in other upscale Aspen restaurants.<\/p>\n

Ordering mostly from the bar menu we mixed it up, starting with Aspen Brewing Company Blonde ($5\/draft) which is a new favorite. \u00a0As for bites, the first was the hummus, pita, & olive plate ($7). \u00a0Unfortunately for us hummus lovers, it just didn’t hit the mark. \u00a0To tempting not to test was the cheese stuffed pretzel ($6), which once presented looked alot like the dinner rolls and not like a traditional pretzel, hesitantly we cut into it and were pleasantly surprised at how good it was, served with a tasty dipping sauce. \u00a0 The chicken wings ($8) with chim-chirri were served sauceless, which was great to expose the natural crispy goodness of the wing but the chim-chirri sprinkled atop the wing, although good, just kept falling off making it hard to eat with the wing.<\/p>\n

The menu was in for a bit of a change, so we had to forgo the mussels altogether and exchange the lobster gnocchi ($15) for a scallop gnocchi, which was a small disappointment. \u00a0The Papusa ($12) was deconstructed so it just wasn’t what we were looking for, a papusa. \u00a0The kale salad served atop couscous ($11) was another great surprise, fresh, clean, and good. \u00a0Also a favorite among the table, was the\u00a0roasted red pepper and\u00a0tomato soup ($10), which was a beautiful hearty soup in a\u00a0freshly baked bread bowl.<\/p>\n

With only two desserts offered that evening we order both the soft chocolate cake ($9) & \u00a0trio of ice cream ($9, apple cider, sage, chocolate) and\u00a0quickly realized we should have passed on both. \u00a0 The apple cider ice cream seemed to lack any flavor while the sage had way to much. \u00a0The chocolate cake didn’t taste like chocolate nor cake, we are still trying to figure that one out.\u00a0Disappointingly we left the desserts unfinished at the table, which is nearly a first for us.<\/p>\n

Throughout our dinner at the Silver Queen<\/a> it was a series of hits and misses. \u00a0While\u00a0there were some tasty treats that would definitely bring us back,\u00a0the food didn’t completely wow us, however the great service and good atmosphere made it all a pleasant and comfortable evening out in Aspen and\u00a0the total bill of $111 seemed rather affordable for 3.<\/p>\n

– an eatAspen DKD review<\/p>\n

Visit the Silver Queen<\/a> listing for Restaurant Menu<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n

Share your Aspen restaurant review<\/a> of the Silver Queen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout our dinner at the Silver Queen it was a series of hits and misses. While there were some tasty treats that would definitely bring us back, the food didn’t completely wow us, however the great service and good atmosphere made it all a pleasant and comfortable evening out in Aspen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[460,485],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aspen-restaurants","tag-reviews","tag-silver-queen","author-eataspen-reviews","aspen-restaurants"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aUGV-Ks","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}