Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Aspen from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Aspen
Aspen Flyover 1/4 Section Grid holds the city’s strongest concentration of award-backed wine programmes and structured dining rooms.
Element 47 is Colorado Contemporary Fine Dining with a Wine Spectator Grand Award and an exceptional wine program. The cellar holds over 2,000 bottles, service is sommelier-led, and the menu runs à la carte, prix fixe, and tasting menu formats inside The Little Nell.
Cache Cache is a high-end French bistro with an exceptional wine program and repeated World's Best Wine Lists recognition. It pairs an extensive list with à la carte and prix fixe dining in Aspen Flyover 1/4 Section Grid, with a lively courtyard setting.
French Alpine Bistro brings French Alpine cooking to Aspen with candlelit dining and an extensive wine list. Its 6,000-bottle cellar has earned Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence recognition and a Star Wine List White Star, with lunch and dinner service.
Aspen’s clearest fixed-course and chef-led dining formats include tasting menus, omakase, prix fixe service, and a single Michelin-starred room.
Bosq is Aspen's Michelin-starred restaurant in our guide, holding a Michelin 1 Star (2026) in Aspen Flyover 1/4 Section Grid. Tasting menu and prix fixe formats use foraged and fermented ingredients, including juniper-grilled lobster among the local Colorado twists, with an extensive wine list, an exceptional wine program, and sommelier-led service.
Prospect is Seasonal American Bistro inside Hotel Jerome, with à la carte service and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence in 2025 and 2026. The wine list includes 450 selections, anchored in France and California, and the room has Opinionated About Dining recognition from 2023 through 2025.
Matsuhisa Aspen is Modern Japanese-Peruvian Fusion with omakase, à la carte, and family style formats. The wine list sits alongside sake and craft cocktails, and the restaurant appears in Opinionated About Dining North America rankings.
Aspen has 1 Michelin-starred restaurant in our guide, Bosq in Aspen Flyover 1/4 Section Grid. It is the city's only starred room, and its dining format centres on tasting menu and prix fixe service.
Aspen Flyover 1/4 Section Grid has the strongest cluster of wine-led restaurants in our guide. It contains 44 venues overall and includes Element 47, Bosq, Cache Cache, French Alpine Bistro, Prospect, and several other award-recognised rooms with serious wine programmes.
Aspen has 9 Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence winners, 3 Wine Spectator Award of Excellence winners, and 1 Wine Spectator Grand Award in our guide. The list includes Element 47, French Alpine Bistro, Prospect, The Monarch Steakhouse, Steakhouse 316 Aspen, Catch Steak, Aosta Ristorante, and Cloud Nine Alpine Bistro Aspen Highlands.
Tasting menus are clearest at Bosq and Element 47. Bosq is built around tasting menu and prix fixe service, and Element 47 also offers a tasting menu. Matsuhisa Aspen adds omakase in Aspen Flyover 1/4 Section Grid, while Mawa's Kitchen also offers a tasting menu in Aspen Flyover 1/4 Section Grid.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Element 47 at The Little Nell holds a Michelin Plate (2024), a La Liste score of 76.5 points, and consecutive Star Wine List recognition through 2025 and 2026. The restaurant occupies the ground floor of Aspen's premier ski-in/ski-out hotel, with a 20,000-bottle cellar overseen by a credentialed sommelier team and a seasonally driven contemporary American menu.
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Bosq holds a Michelin star on Aspen's restaurant circuit, where Chef Barclay Dodge builds tasting menus around foraged ingredients, fermentation, and local farms. The format lets diners configure their own four-plus course progression, and the dimly lit Mill Street room rewards those who lean into the sourcing story behind each plate. Book ahead; it fills consistently.
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French Alpine Bistro on East Hopkins Avenue brings a specific culinary tradition to Aspen's dining scene: the French Alpine format, where Austrian and French mountain cooking overlap, backed by a wine list of 6,000 bottles awarded a White Star on Star Wine List (2025). Lunch and dinner service, with wine pricing in the $100-plus range and cuisine at the $$$ tier, position it among Aspen's more serious dining addresses.
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Inside Hotel Jerome, one of Aspen's most photographed properties, Prospect runs three meals a day on a menu that moves between American breakfast classics and Mediterranean-inflected dinners. Chef Pamela Mazzola draws on local Colorado producers for seasonal ingredients, and a wine list of 450 selections, anchored in France and California, makes it one of the more complete cellar programs in the market. Opinionated About Dining has ranked it among North America's top restaurants each year from 2023 through 2025.
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Cache Cache has anchored Aspen's serious dining scene for decades, holding a Wine Spectator White Star and a 3-Star World of Fine Wine accreditation that signal a wine program operating well above resort-town norms. Positioned on South Mill Street at the heart of town, it draws a crowd that comes as much for the cellar as the kitchen, a combination that defines the upper tier of Aspen's year-round restaurant circuit.
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Nobu Matsuhisa's original Rocky Mountain outpost on East Main Street, Matsuhisa Aspen predates the brand's global expansion and holds a sustained position in the Opinionated About Dining North America rankings, reaching #362 in 2024. Under Chef Philip Tanaka, the kitchen applies Japanese technique to high-altitude dining, offering a nightly dinner service that places it in Aspen's upper tier of destination restaurants.
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Set in Aspen's Airport Business Center, Mawa's Kitchen brings West African and contemporary American cooking together at a price point that runs against the grain of the resort town. Owner Mawa McQueen, originally from the Côte d'Ivoire, built a menu where black-eyed pea hummus and boldly spiced gumbo sit alongside accessible desserts. returning crowd.
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Ajax Tavern is Aspen’s mountainside lunch-and-après address, built around the social rhythm of Aspen Mountain rather than formal fine dining. The draw is concrete: truffle fries, an Ajax double cheeseburger made with award-winning wagyu beef from Emma Farms CMC, a sunlit patio in ski season, and live music on the Ajax Stage in summer.
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Aosta Aspen earned a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in March 2025, placing it among Aspen's most seriously curated dining addresses for wine-forward guests. For visitors building a high-end Aspen itinerary, it belongs on the shortlist alongside the mountain resort's most considered rooms.
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"Most people go to Aspen for both the skiing and the scene. On December 13, Catch Steak, known for its buzzy, club-like outposts in New York and Los Angeles, will officially add to the latter. Their Colorado outpost is steps from the Aspen gondola, and will have a heated year-round rooftop dining terrace with views of Ajax in addition to their main dining room and bar. As the name implies, they’ll serve up an abundance of premium steak (although their endlessly popular chili tuna tartar is also on the menu)."
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At the summit of the Cloud Nine lift in Aspen Highlands, this mountain bistro occupies among the more singular dining positions in Colorado skiing: a mid-mountain lunch destination where the altitude and the après culture converge. The format rewards those who plan ahead, particularly during peak ski season, when tables at elevation carry a different set of expectations than anything in town.
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A long-standing fixture on West Main Street, Hickory House sits in the casual-to-mid register of Aspen's dining spectrum, offering a counterpoint to the resort town's fine-dining concentration. The address at 730 W Main St places it within easy reach of the mountain corridor. For visitors looking beyond tasting menus and expense-account counters, it represents a practical anchor in a city that often prices out its own middle ground.
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Inside one of Aspen's most storied hotels, the Century Room has built a consistent presence on Opinionated About Dining's North America rankings, appearing in 2023, 2024, and 2025, under Chef Marlon Rambaran. Open from 4pm daily, the restaurant serves American cuisine in a setting where the town's ski-resort energy meets the measured pace of a proper dining room.
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The format centres on the American steakhouse tradition, with a wine program serious enough to earn independent editorial notice. For Aspen, where $$$$ contemporary tasting menus dominate the upper tier, a focused steakhouse with credentialed cellaring occupies a distinct position.
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A Star Wine List White Star recipient on South Monarch Street, The Monarch Steakhouse occupies a precise tier in Aspen's high-end dining scene where serious wine programs and the ritual of the steakhouse meal converge. Published by Star Wine List in May 2024, the recognition signals a wine list with real depth. For those working through Aspen's restaurant options, it sits alongside the town's most considered dining rooms.
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Located at 300 Puppy Smith Street in Aspen's mid-town corridor, this address sits within one of Colorado's most competitive dining and hospitality markets. Aspen's restaurant scene spans everything from high-altitude tasting menus to neighbourhood bistros, and this address places visitors within reach of that full range. Check our full Aspen guide for current programming and booking details.
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39 Degrees belongs to Aspen’s mountain-base dining rhythm: après-ski energy, hotel-bar pacing, and a crowd that often moves between slopes, lounges, and late dinner. With no public awards, chef, cuisine, or price details listed, the smarter read is contextual: treat it as part of the city’s social dining circuit rather than a destination tasting-menu address.
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The venue draws a crowd shaped by Aspen's particular mix of serious skiers, arts-week regulars, and year-round locals who expect both energy and substance from a night out.
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Campo De Fiori sits at 205 S Mill St in the heart of Aspen, Colorado, drawing a loyal crowd that returns season after season. The restaurant occupies a position in Aspen's Italian dining scene where familiarity and craft operate together, rewarding regulars who know what to ask for. It is the kind of address where the room itself tells you something about how the town eats when it isn't performing for visitors.
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CHICA Aspen brings a Latin-inflected menu to 501 E Dean St, occupying a position in Aspen's dining scene where bold flavors and a shareable format sit alongside the mountain town's more familiar steakhouse and European fare traditions. The menu architecture favors communal eating over tasting-course formality, making it a different kind of evening than the white-tablecloth options dominating the upper end of the market.
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Positioned along Highway 82 at the outer edge of Aspen, Cliffhouse occupies a category that few mountain venues attempt: destination dining shaped as much by its physical setting as by what arrives at the table.
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In a town where dinner reservations often run to three courses and four figures, CP Burger at 433 E Durant Ave keeps things deliberately grounded. Aspen's appetite for quality doesn't stop at the fine-dining tier, and CP Burger sits in that counter-service niche where sourcing discipline and direct execution matter more than tablecloths. A useful address for skiers and locals who want substance without ceremony.
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Aspen's only ski-in/ski-out hotel sits at the base of the Silver Queen Gondola, holding both the Forbes Five Star and AAA Five-Diamond awards simultaneously, a combination no other property in the city has achieved. Across 92 rooms with Champalimaud-designed interiors, a 25,000-bottle wine cellar, and an Adventure Center running everything from snowcat tours to fly fishing, The Little Nell operates at a tier of its own in the Mountain West.
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Mollie Aspen honors the well-known silver mine that built Aspen through 68 luxury rooms and suites where contemporary Scandinavian design meets mountain town heritage. This downtown boutique hotel features the signature Roof Terrace, spa pool, and accommodations from the panoramic Mollie Suite to intimate below-ground Cozy rooms.
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Built in 1889 during Aspen's silver boom, Hotel Jerome is the town's oldest surviving hotel and its most historically grounded luxury address. A 2024 Michelin Key recipient and part of the Auberge Resorts Collection, it occupies the corner of Main Street with 93 rooms starting at 525 square feet, a spa drawing on Ute healing traditions, and a social identity that predates the ski resort by decades.
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Positioned at the base of Aspen Mountain, The St. Regis Aspen Resort holds a Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star spa rating and serves as a host hotel for the FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen. With 179 rooms, five dining outlets, and the signature St. Regis Butler Service operating around the clock, it occupies the formal upper tier of Aspen's luxury hotel market.
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Aspen Meadows Resort occupies a quieter position in the Aspen lodging market, with 98 rooms spread across a campus-style property on Meadows Road. The setting places guests at a remove from the pedestrian core, making it a practical choice for those prioritising space and a lower-density environment over ski-in convenience or downtown proximity.
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Limelight Aspen occupies a deliberate middle position in the town's accommodation spectrum: less formal than the trophy properties on Galena Street, more thoughtfully designed than the functional ski lodges at the mountain's base. At 355 S Monarch St, the address places guests within walking distance of the gondola and the town's better restaurants, which matters considerably when Aspen's winters arrive in force.
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W Aspen holds a Michelin Selected distinction in the 2025 guide, placing it among a small group of Aspen hotels recognised for consistent quality. Located at 550 South Spring Street, the property sits within the W Hotels portfolio and pitches at travellers who want a design-forward base close to the mountain without sacrificing urban energy. The dining and bar programme anchors the in-house social scene.
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The only hotel in Aspen operating a year-round rooftop venue, W Aspen positions itself at the intersection of alpine sport and design-forward hospitality. At 550 S Spring St, the property draws a crowd that skis hard and recovers with intention, backed by a resort fee structure that folds in airport transfers, ski concierge, and daily bike access. The Sky Residences add a private ownership tier with rooftop WET Deck access reserved exclusively for residents.
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White Elephant Aspen occupies a prime position on West Main Street in one of Colorado's most competitive luxury hotel markets, earning recognition from Star Wine List in 2026. The property sits within walking distance of Aspen's core, placing it inside a small tier of in-town addresses that trade on access as much as amenity. For travellers who want proximity to the mountain without sacrificing the formality of a full-service stay, it reads as a considered alternative to the larger resort brands on the hillside.
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Positioned on the quieter south end of Aspen's core, The Gant occupies a different register than the town's flagged luxury towers, suite-format accommodation, a residential pace, and proximity to the mountain without the lobby-scene energy. For travellers who want space over spectacle and a base that reads more like a private residence than a hotel, it represents a practical alternative in a market that skews heavily toward branded grandeur.
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Aspen Mountain Club occupies a distinct position among Aspen's private membership venues, drawing a crowd for whom altitude and exclusivity are non-negotiable. Located at 675 E Durant Ave, the club sits at the base of Ajax Mountain, where ski culture and après social ritual converge. For visitors calibrating where this fits in Aspen's broader scene, it belongs in the conversation about the town's most rarefied social infrastructure.
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A bookshop-café hybrid on East Main Street in Aspen, Explore Books and Coffee sits at the intersection of literary culture and daily ritual that defines the town's quieter, non-ski identity. Located at 221 E Main St, it offers an alternative to the resort's more prominent dining and drinking circuit, drawing locals and visitors who want something closer to neighbourhood routine than mountain spectacle.
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