The Wild Fig has been around a long time, and while no substitute for the fabulous Torino Pizza place there before, it has served its purpose. Colette had a nice gaspacho with shrimp and I had a plate of largely cold seafood items - a terrific white fish ceviche, a pretty good hot octopus bits with cherry tomato "salad" and an absolutely bland tartare of salmon.
With a glass of red wine and one of iced tea, no desserts nor coffee, our bill before tip was $87.21.
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The Meatball Shack has gotten rave reviews from Aspenites and wildly divergent reviews on Yelp and after our meal I think I know why. The bread was stale until toasted; Colette's quinoa salad was deemed by her only "OK", e.g. she sees no need to return; my three "classic" meatballs with a tomato, capers and olive sauce were pale whispers of what my Mother prepared; but the sauteed spinach with garlic was "the" single best dish of this week in Aspen - it was super-spectacular - maybe I'll return for more of Florentinian chef Eddie Baida's Italian stuff.
With two glasses of California red, one iced tea and no desserts or coffee, our bill before tip was $55.
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The Brexi Brasserie is a pseudo-French place that usually satisfies quite well. I must admit that we loved going/coming here for lunch in the past because dinner is such a wild scene with all the nursing home escapees/Bobo's/rich face-lift tummy-tuck breast-enhancement trophy wives in abundance and deafening music. (we were seated on an outside table so the music was not as intrusive.) Colette had the scallops a top a pea puree with diced carrots (no salt & pepper required because it was "quite well seasoned") that she quite liked and I thought my sardines with tomato sauce were also quite acceptable. No fireworks but quite pleasant so long as one was far from the deafening noise (see todays NYT by Katherine Bouton).
Our bill, with a bottle of Zin with nothing else, was $73.05 before tip.
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