Saturday, Oct. 3 is the last night of summer service at Cache Cache, 205 S. Mill St. BOSQ, a block up Mill Street at No. 312, starts its seasonal closure the same day. Duemani on South Monarch has been closed since Sept. 29. Mawita, out at the Aspen Airport Business Center, closed back on Sept. 6.
Each of these restaurants picked its own dates, and they don't all match. Lay the fall 2026 closure dates from the eatAspen offseason hours listing against the 2026-27 lift schedule, and you can see how Aspen's offseason works. Dining rooms close a few at a time from late September through early November. The thinnest stretch is roughly Oct. 25 to Nov. 25. Restaurants then come back in two groups. The first group returns around Nov. 26, when Aspen Mountain opens. The second returns in December, mostly in the days around the Dec. 12 opening of Aspen Highlands and Buttermilk.
The closures run through October
Autumn Restaurant Week was the season's last big dining event. It ran Sept. 21 to 27 with prix-fixe menus at $45, $75 and $95. Mawita had already closed Sept. 6. Most of the other closures came after Restaurant Week ended and continue for about five weeks:
- Duemani, 216 S. Monarch St., closed Sept. 29.
- Cache Cache, 205 S. Mill St., serves its last night Oct. 3. BOSQ, 312 S. Mill St., starts its closure the same day.
- PARC Aspen, 620 E. Hyman Ave., closes Oct. 11.
- The Wild Fig, 305 S. Mill St., closes Oct. 18.
- French Alpine Bistro, 400 E. Hopkins Ave., serves its last night Oct. 21.
- Aosta, 219 E. Durant Ave., and The Monarch Steak House, 411 S. Monarch St., both close Oct. 25.
- Mawa's Kitchen at the Aspen Airport Business Center serves its last dinner Saturday, Oct. 31, and its last brunch Sunday, Nov. 1.
Red Mountain Grill at the Aspen Golf Course will close for two weeks in early November, but it hasn't set the dates yet. The listing still says "TBD." By the first weekend of November, nearly every closure on the list has started.
Late October to Thanksgiving week is the quietest stretch
From Oct. 25 until French Alpine Bistro reopens Nov. 25, every closure listed above is in effect at once, Red Mountain Grill aside. Some places stay open but cut hours, and the cuts start in the first full week of October:
- CP Burger, 433 E. Durant Ave., is open all offseason. Starting Monday, Oct. 5, hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
- Las Montañas, 205 S. Mill St., stops serving lunch after Oct. 5 and brings it back in mid-December. Happy hour runs 3 to 5 p.m., and dinner starts at 5 p.m. every night.
- Matsuhisa, 303 E. Main St., is open all offseason. Its upstairs room closes Oct. 6 and reopens Dec. 11, except on Mondays, when it runs Monday Night Football specials upstairs and at the downstairs bar.
- Yuki, 450 S. Galena St., closes Tuesdays and Wednesdays from Oct. 6 through Nov. 18.
- Campo de Fiori, 205 S. Mill St., is open all offseason. Starting Oct. 11, it serves dinner at 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and closes Sundays and Mondays.
The fall listing also marks these places open: Crepe Therapy Cafe at 401 E. Cooper Ave. is open daily, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Explore Books Cafe at 221 E. Main St. runs its cafe from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and its bookstore from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week. Little Ollie's, New York Pizza, Phatt Pho, Steakhouse No. 316, Limelight Lounge, Roxy's Market & Cafe, Woody Creek Tavern and Clark's Market Aspen are also listed as open. Acquolina Trattoria at 415 E. Main St. opens at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
Many restaurants on the same listing have no fall status yet, so a blank entry doesn't mean a place is closed. Hours change quickly at this time of year, so calling ahead is a good idea.
Two places from this summer add dinner options downtown during the slow weeks. LoLa 41 at White Elephant Aspen, 110 W. Main St., lists daily breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m., lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., happy hour from 3 to 5 p.m. and dinner from 5 to 10 p.m. The Golden Horn, a gastropub in the basement of its namesake building on the Mill Street pedestrian mall, has posted a fall menu with weekday happy hour from 3 to 5 p.m. It hasn't published its full fall weekly schedule.
The reopenings follow the lift schedule
Aspen Snowmass plans to open Aspen Mountain and Snowmass on Nov. 26, which is Thanksgiving this year. Aspen Highlands and Buttermilk follow on Saturday, Dec. 12, conditions permitting. The restaurants that closed this fall split into two groups around those dates.
| Restaurant | Last service or closure start | Back for winter | Lines up with |
|---|---|---|---|
| French Alpine Bistro | Oct. 21 | Nov. 25 | Aspen Mountain, Nov. 26 |
| The Wild Fig | Oct. 18 | Closure listed through Nov. 26 | Aspen Mountain, Nov. 26 |
| Aosta | Oct. 25 | Closure listed through Nov. 26 | Aspen Mountain, Nov. 26 |
| The Monarch Steak House | Oct. 25 | Closure listed through Nov. 26 | Aspen Mountain, Nov. 26 |
| Duemani | Sept. 29 | Dec. 4 | Highlands and Buttermilk, Dec. 12 |
| Mawa's Kitchen | Nov. 1 | Brunch Dec. 10, dinner Dec. 15 | Highlands and Buttermilk, Dec. 12 |
| BOSQ | Oct. 3 | Closure listed through Dec. 10 | Highlands and Buttermilk, Dec. 12 |
| Cache Cache | Oct. 3 | Dec. 11 | Highlands and Buttermilk, Dec. 12 |
| Matsuhisa, upstairs | Oct. 6 | Dec. 11 | Highlands and Buttermilk, Dec. 12 |
| Mawita | Sept. 6 | Closure listed through Dec. 13 | Highlands and Buttermilk, Dec. 12 |
| PARC Aspen | Oct. 11 | Closure listed through Dec. 15 | Highlands and Buttermilk, Dec. 12 |
The first group is small. French Alpine Bistro, The Wild Fig, Aosta and The Monarch Steak House all close in the second half of October and are listed back around Thanksgiving. The others take a longer break. None of them returns before December. Duemani, one of the first to close, comes back earliest, on Dec. 4. The rest reopen between Dec. 10 and Dec. 15. Thanksgiving Day itself is limited too: Matsuhisa and Yuki both list a full Thanksgiving closure.
The weekend of Dec. 10 through 13 is the second turning point. Mawa's Kitchen brings back brunch on Dec. 10. Cache Cache and Matsuhisa's upstairs room reopen Dec. 11. Highlands and Buttermilk open Dec. 12. Mawita's listed closure ends Dec. 13. Mawa's Kitchen resumes dinner the following Tuesday, Dec. 15, the last day of PARC Aspen's listed closure.
New this fall: an all-local building on Hyman Avenue
The biggest dining addition this offseason opened in the middle of the closures, after Mawita had shut and before the October closings got going. ThreeFifteen, at 315 E. Hyman Ave. across from the Wheeler Opera House, held its grand opening Sept. 17. The building used to house Eric's Bar and, more recently, Gravity Haus. According to the Aspen Daily News, every tenant is local.
Sisters Liz and Sondra Savickas run both upstairs food spaces. Eddy's Market is a coffee shop, artisan market, bakery and grab-and-go counter. Eddy's Sit and Stay is a sit-down restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating. Liz Savickas describes the food as "all-American": an all-day menu of salads, sandwiches, wraps, chicken Parmesan and meatball subs, along with family recipes and rotating specials. Eddy's Marketplace currently lists hours of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. The Sit & Stay kitchen is open Thursday through Monday, 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., with happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m. Neither schedule lists an end date.
The rest of the building is local too. Buckhorn Public Arts runs the Aspen Arts Club, which leased eight offices and turned them into rent-free studios for eight artists on six-month residencies. Buckhorn also runs The Grove, the downstairs event space where Eric's Bar used to be. It has already hosted comedy, yoga and breathwork. Tattoo Aspen, the new Mischief Vintage store and the Aspen Daily News newsroom are also in the building. Developer Mark Hunt backed the locals-only idea. Aspen Daily News publisher David Cook, one of the project's partners, explained the goal:
"We wanted to set out to prove that locals could do something that was as reliable and meaningful, both from an output perspective as well as a well-curated perspective."
Because ThreeFifteen opened in mid-September, its first slow season falls in the same weeks covered above, from late October through Thanksgiving week.
One storefront to watch on East Cooper
ZigZag at 624 E. Cooper Ave. has closed. A farewell message on its website says, "Tonight, we close the door," but gives no date. The fall eatAspen listing shows the same address with "Le Cafe coming December 2026." No news outlet or business source has confirmed that plan yet. If it opens as listed, it will join the December group that reopens around the Highlands and Buttermilk opening.
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