In his latest blog Jonathan Lekstutis discusses the high prices at restaurants in Aspen.
Ah, Summer time in Aspen. Leave it to Post blogger Rochelle to find a most unusual caffeine fix: "Last night I met a friend at Brunelleschis in Aspen. I haven't been to the place since winter and this summer Brunelleschis has open aired the place by getting rid of the windows and offering patio seating. The place was packed last night with locals and tourists alike. It was a fun crowd and the staff was quite entertaining. After explaining to our waiter that I could not take a second glass of merlot as we had three concerts to attend last night he came back with an espresso martini and stated 'If you don't like it I will drink it'...well for a non-martini drinker it was wonderful!! It tasted like chocolate milk and kept me awake till 2 a.m."
"From the Marriott in Cherry Creek," writes Post blogger Michael Conniff, "you don’t have to go far to find anything, including food. There’s a bunch of great places in the building and on the block—including a hip and happening spot called North—but we ventured a few blocks away to Elway’s, the steak place named after you-know-who. Without aforethought, it turned out our experience at Elway’s was in keeping with the shopping theme of the weekend. With a piano bar and plentiful drinks, the restaurant was the epicenter of baby boomers shopping for company, with the up close and personal costumes to match. A couple of drinks and my guess is that a couple of the couples got lucky that night."
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Thanksgiving has always been one of the more interesting holidays in my book. It all started with a "stray dog" thanksgiving one year at college. A few of us stayed at school for the holiday break and were invited to a faculty member's home for the holiday. There we found 20 unrelated people enjoying each others company with a feast of food and cocktails.
That is what sets this holiday apart. Its key ingredients are good food, good drink, and good people. Family is nice, but not necessary. A large part of Aspen is made of transplants that left friends and family "Back East" or elsewhere, and because of this, Aspen has a great tradition of welcoming randoms together to form that "family". So I hope you find yourself at someone's table or find someone at your table. If not there are a few Aspen Restaurants and others that invite you to dine.
Continue Reading November 25th, 2008
The thing I love most about the Food and Wine festival here in Aspen is the famous people I’ve never heard of and would not know from Adam. It’s like going to the Super Bowl with no clue about frozen tundra—you should have stood in bed instead of taking up space in the stands.
A couple years back I was saving a chair at the Hotel Jerome for my fiancée when a woman took the chair for her husband without asking. She said something that indicated her husband was some kind of a big deal in the world of food, but I could not have cared less if he were Wolfgang Puck. It was our chair. I had saved the seat under the universal law found in the Constitution that decrees all men are created equal no matter how nifty you might be with pulled pork and coleslaw.
Continue Reading June 15th, 2008
I live and work in Glenwood Springs, and like most men my age I'm looking for a way to drop a few pounds that doesn't involve a six mile run out to Noname and back. So I read weekly emails from Chef Church's Garnish Restaurant, and the only thing that bothers me more than the fact that I don't eat anything like the healthy cuisine he serves, I sometimes serve Eggo waffles to my kids before school.
Despite this embarrassing admission, I relish seeing Chef Church's weekly menus in my in-box, if only because rare occasions, Chef Church inspires me to cook.
Please--nobody tell my wife...
Cheers,
April 13th, 2008
This week at
Garnish Cafe we will be featuring a few different lunch specials which are listed below.
Continue Reading April 7th, 2008
Following in the footsteps of some of Aspen's other institutions, the Crystal Palace Dinner Theater is on its last performance. The creation of The Palace harkens back to 1957 and has been entertaining Aspen locals and visitors alike ever since.
Despite the many conspiracy theories that the Crystal Palace is being forced to close it’s doors do to combined pressure from the Vatican, Billary, and “W”, its just not so. Mead Metcalf, Owner, Operator, and Performer has decided it is time to retire, and with that, so goes the Palace. Mead is set to relocate to a small mountain town that is a little more like Aspen in the 50’s. It is understandable but also a bit sad to see him and the Palace move on. It has been over 50 years after all.
The Crystal Palace’s official “Last Show Ever” is set for April 12th 2008. That show and April 11th, the night before, are already sold out with seats for the other remaining nights filling up fast. So this is it folks, your last chance to enjoy the Crystal Palace.
If you’ve seen the show before you know what your missing, if you haven’t seen the show it is a must. We at EatAspen have had the privilege to attend for the last several seasons and have always enjoyed it, the old and the new. Definitely a fine dessert after a fine meal.
6:45 pm seating Mon.-Sat.
Call 970-925-1455 for reservations
EatAspen.com
April 3rd, 2008
We had entered the “practice” portion of the “Women’s Health Conference: From Theory To Practice”—and that meant a group of us was walking in the woods to the Rio Grande Trail and thence into Clark’s Market in Aspen with Dr. Bob Vogel, the University of Maryland professor of medicine who doubles as chief of medicine for the Pritikin Longevity Center and Pritikin Research Foundation.
The idea of the conference, sponsored by the forward-thinking Aspen Center for Integral Health (acih.org) was to dig down deep into what goes down in the real world. Thus: the walk, a moveable lecture about what remains for us to feast upon in the healthiest of worlds.
Continue Reading March 24th, 2008
Michael Conniff continues his inaugural week of "Con Games" online with Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform co-founder Mike McGarry and Colorado State Senator Dave Shulteis. The subject: the insistence by the Glenwood Springs city attorney that the city need not comply with state law.
Also, the Con Man chats with Dish Aspen chef and co-proprietor Matt Zubrod about plans Sunday for a five-course feast at the downtown Aspen restaurant to benefit the International Midwife Assistance organization's efforts in North Uganda and Haiti.
Continue Reading March 12th, 2008
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)--Chef Ryan Hardy and Montagna Restaurant here cleaned up when it came to the announcement of semifinalists for the prestigious James Beard Foundation awards.
Hardy was nominated for best chef in the Southwest, while sommelier Richard Betts in the category of wine and spirits professional. Montagna in The Little Nell here in Aspen also received a nomination for outstanding service.
Chef Mark Fischer from six89 on Main Street in Carbondale will vie with Hardy for best chef in the Southwest, with finalists in all categories to be annoucned March 24, 2008.
Continue Reading March 6th, 2008
Chef Clark Church does it again! That's right, Garnish cafe won the title again this year with Church's chowder. Way to go Clark!
Continue Reading January 11th, 2008
A chef is fundamentally accurate in their technique. It's like someone who can read poetry and break it down into whatever structure it takes to make it accurate in terms of meter. A great cook, on the other hand, may not understand the reason for the poetry, but he likes it, and will feel his way through it intuitively. There are great cooks and talented chefs, but finding a great chef that can cook is difficult. I know chefs that can't cook for more than 12 people. However, I know cooks who can cook for 500 and make everything wonderful, and I think that this is equally as good a skill as that of someone who can put together something that is aesthetic and ambitious. I consider myself to be an upper level cook rather than upper level chef because my interests don't lay 100 percent in doing that. It also comes down to dollars and sense for me. It's good to be the most creative person in the world, but if no one buys your stuff, it's not going to matter.
Continue Reading October 6th, 2007
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