The Top 74 Places to Eat and Drink Near Blue Moose Pizza
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Rank 1. Beano's Cabin
Colorado
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Rank 3. Grouse Mountain Grill
Colorado
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Rank 4. Splendido
Contemporary New American
Chef Brian Ackerman balances refined technique with unpretentious cooking, as in a pomegranate-marinated Colorado lamb that justifies the grand setting. Tableside Dover sole and ethereal soufflés confirm this Vail Valley destination takes craft seriously without pretense.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The 12 Best Restaurants in Beaver Creek, Colorado
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Rank 7. Mirabelle
French
In a homesteader's cabin near Beaver Creek, Chef Daniel Joly cooks European comfort with a Belgian accent: lobster bisque, seared foie gras with caramelized peaches, frites with Dijon mayo. The house is his home, which shows in the warmth, and the desserts—roasted apricot posset, hazelnut crumble—demand you arrive hungry.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The 12 Best Restaurants in Beaver Creek, Colorado
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Rank 8. Sakaba
Sushi
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Rank 16. Tavernetta Vail
Italian
- Wine Enthusiast 2025 · Top 50 New Restaurants
- Sunset 2025 · Inspired Italian · Where to Eat and Drink
- Eater The Best Restaurants in Vail, Colorado
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In a modest Vail storefront, Osaki's seats a handful of guests at a counter facing the day's offerings chalked on a board. The sushi here forgoes sauce and ornamentation—hagatsuo, Japanese snow crab, silky akamutsu—letting the fish speak with the clarity of a purist's conviction.
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Rank 19. Sweet Basil
Fusion
Nearly five decades in, Sweet Basil shows no signs of resting on its reputation. The kitchen plays loose with global flavors—tempura mahi mahi tacos with peanut salsa macha, bone marrow pho with scallop—while desserts match ambition with whimsy. A serious cocktail program and wine list complete what feels like a restaurant enjoying its own freedom.
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Rank 21. Vintage
French
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Rank 22. La Nonna Ristorante Vail
Authentic Italian
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Rank 23. Alpenrose
European
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Rank 24. Matsuhisa
Japanese
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Rank 25. Chasing Rabbits
Mediterranean
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Rank 32. Avanti
Global
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- James Beard Awards 2024 · Winner · Best Chef: Mountain · Matt Vawter
- Eater The 18 Best Restaurants in Breckenridge, Colorado
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Rank 35. Keystone Ranch
Colorado
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Rank 53. Woody Creek Tavern
Comfort Food
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Rank 54. Element 47
Contemporary
Element 47 trades Aspen's mining heritage for contemporary refinement, its sleek dining room warmed by fireplace light and anchored by an impressive wine collection. The menu scales from daytime comfort—tortilla soup, salads—to dinner's ambition: lobster, duck, Wellington.
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Wine Enthusiast The Wine Restaurant Hall of Fame
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Rank 55. Mawa's Kitchen
Contemporary
Tucked into an airport business center, Mawa's Kitchen rewards the search with a sun-lit room of wildflowers and bare tables, plus a breezy terrace. Owner Mawa McQueen brings West African technique to accessible cooking: black-eyed pea hummus with charred vegetables, a boldly spiced seafood gumbo, a cheesecake worth saving room for. The place trades prestige for genuine hospitality and value.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The Best Aspen Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mountain · Mawa McQueen
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Rank 56. Bosq
Contemporary
In a dimly lit room that feels both withdrawn and welcoming, Chef Barclay Dodge builds a seasonal tasting around foraged ingredients, fermented condiments, and the Colorado pantry, each plate arriving with meticulous attention to source and technique. Even lobster from New England submits to local inflection—grilled over juniper, transformed—in a menu that treats ambition as a form of generosity.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Barclay Dodge
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mountain · C. Barclay Dodge
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Rank 57. Prospect
Mediterranean
Inside the Hotel Jerome, Prospect trades Aspen's stuffiness for a casual, colorful dining room where seasonal cooking built on local sourcing unfolds across three meals. Lumache pasta with pesto and stracciatella arrives alongside Colorado lamb with caponata and babaganoush—Mediterranean inflected, approachable, unburdened by pretense.
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Rank 58. Spring Cafe
Vegetarian
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Rank 61. Sant Ambroeus Aspen Restaurant
Milanese Italian
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Rank 65. Cache Cache
Traditional French
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Rank 66. Las Montañas
Mexican
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Rank 67. Ellina
Italian
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Rank 68. Duemani
Mediterranean
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Rank 69. Clark's Oyster Bar
Seafood
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Rank 70. Aspen Public House
New American
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Rank 71. Wayan
French/Indonesian
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Rank 73. YUKI Aspen
Japanese
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