Aspen Delivers an AprÃs-Ski for Every Taste

Photo: Kristen Whitaker

A time connected the slopes isn’t implicit unless it ends with a fewer drinks, delicious food, and a large clip with bully friends. This occasion, different known arsenic après-ski, is simply a European-born conception that has taken connected its ain unsocial individuality successful posh American skis enclaves wherever wintertime sports and partying spell hand-in-hand. This play Aspen, Colorado leads the battalion with a scope of après-ski options designed to cater to each desire. Whether it’s a mountainside pop-up party, a laidback hangout successful the bosom of town, oregon an elegant meal astatine a 5-star upland lodge, Aspen offers après-ski vibes for each tastes. Here’s a usher to 3 of Aspen’s champion après-ski experiences.

ASPENX BEACH CLUB WITH GRAY MALIN

Situated astatine the highest of Aspen Mountain, AspenX Beach Club is simply a chic wintertime acquisition that invites some avid skiers and non-skiing enactment goers to bask après-ski festivities connected Aspen’s postcard cleanable slopes. With striped cabanas, lounge chairs, and panoramic views, the AspenX Beach Club is the cleanable spot to bask Aspen’s picturesque mountainscape and glamorous societal scene. Curated by renowned manner lensman Gray Malin, AspenX Beach Club merges the ski-chic benignant of the AspenX brand, with dedicated service, and Malin’s signature vibrant aesthetic. The venue is simply a Gray Malin photograph travel to life, implicit with 360-degree views of the surrounding slopes and peaks, reddish and achromatic striped cabanas, and the Instagram-worthy reddish lifeguard operation with its matching customized longboard. The seasonal pop-up enactment is exclusive and constricted to 100-guests per day. Live DJ sets, peculiar events, and gourmet eating bring the enactment to beingness and make the vigor of a formation party; wherever guests tin mingle nether sunny skies, lounge connected striped chaise chairs, and bid signature spritzes, bottles of rosé, oregon adjacent a three-course repast with unlimited Dom Pérignon.

AspenX Beach Club is unfastened until April 16 (Fridays done Sundays) from noon to 3 p.m. with a constricted availability of up to 100 radical per day. Guests indispensable beryllium 21+ to participate and a assistance summons is required to entree the Beach Club via the Silver Queen Gondola. tickets spell fast, truthful effort to marque your preservation acold successful advance.

AJAX TAVERN

Located astatine the basal of Aspen Mountain and adjacent to the Silver Queen Gondola, Ajax Tavern is an Aspen classic. Known for its casual yet elevated atmosphere, Ajax Tavern is wherever everyone successful municipality gathers for bully vibes and arsenic awesome après-ski favorites. The sun-drenched, mountainside patio is the spot to beryllium for lunch, cocktails, and immoderate of the astir epic radical watching successful Aspen. That being said, don’t fto the societal country distract you from Ajax’s main attraction, the food. Inspired by Colorado's sustainably raised meats and seasonal produce, the paper astatine Ajax Tavern is an innovative instrumentality connected accepted tavern fare. Signature paper items see a Colorado lamb bolognese and of course, the iconic Ajax Wagyu treble cheeseburger with truffle fries. For diners looking for lighter fare, the après-ski paper features caller earthy barroom selections, including oysters, shrimp and crab, arsenic good arsenic an abundance of good wines, determination microbrews, and signature cocktails specified arsenic specified arsenic the Hot Apple Pie with Van Gogh Salted Caramel, Cider, Caramel, the Chocolate Caliente with The Nell’s Dobel Barel, oregon the Bad Santa made with Amaretto Cookie Liquor, Hot Chocolate, Crushed Peppermint Rim. For guests wanting thing other peculiar Ajax Tavern’s has unveiled its Boozy Builds concept, which allows guests to amusement disconnected their creativity by choosing a liquor, a basal and a topping to marque a customized libation. Ajax Tavern is unfastened regular from 11:30 americium - 10 pm

ELEMENT 47 

Widely regarded arsenic Aspen’s “finest spot to wine, dine and unwind.” Element 47 astatine The Little Nell takes après-ski to different level. Led by a cautiously vetted squad of culinary and vino professionals, Element 47 is an acquisition to retrieve with the benignant of ambiance that sets the signifier for a casual yet elegant evening — representation candle-lit tables, ceiling-height solid cases with immoderate of the world’s rarest wines, archetypal works of creation by Michelle Grabner, Scott Reeder, Philip Vanderhyden and José Lerma. Whether you ski-in for après cocktails successful the Living Room, settee successful astatine the barroom for a casual meet-up, oregon reserve a array for 1 of Aspen’s astir elegant eating experiences, Element 47 astatine The Little Nell edifice has an après-ski vibe for everyone.  

Discerning foodies and jazz aficionados looking to instrumentality their après-ski acquisition to the adjacent level tin reserve a array astatine Element 47, wherever The Little Nell and Jazz Aspen Snowmass person partnered to make Jazz Nights astatine Element 47. On Thursday and Sunday nights from 6-9 p.m. guests tin take from a database of innovative cocktails and award-winning vino programme paired with seasonally-inspired dishes from Culinary Director Matt Zubrod and Executive Chef Oscar Carrasco.

Those fortunate capable to beryllium successful Aspen connected March 9th tin be the Frasca Pop-Up with Bobby Stuckey. The James Beard award-winning restaurant, Frasca Food & Wine from Boulder, volition instrumentality implicit Element 47 for an evening with Master Sommelier and Co-Owner Bobby Stuckey, formerly the Wine Director astatine The Little Nell. Offering refined Northern Italian plates based connected locally sourced ingredients paired with top-shelf wines. Pairings see dishes specified arsenic Frico gambero croccante paired with Ronco Del Gnemiz FriulanoSan Zuan2020, seppia and achromatic truffle ink with salumi crumble paired with Vodopivic VitovskaOrigine2018 and achromatic cherry panna cotta with mascarpone bavarois, almond fuiellitine crisp, and orangish curd paired with Marco Sara Verduzzo FriulanoPassito2021. Reservations are disposable from 6 – 9:30 p.m. $300++ per person.