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| Mr Five Star and World Travel and Dinning Reviews & Resources |
| Aspen, Colorado |
  Coffee-table magazines might have you believe that a tollgate outside
Aspen only admits film stars and the super-rich. This elite ski resort,
two hundred miles west of Denver via Leadville, is indeed home to the
likes of Cher, Jack Nicholson and Goldie Hawn, but it can be a very
appealing place for anyone visit.
From inauspicious beginnings in 1879, this pristine mountain-locked
town developed slowly, thanks to its remote location, to become one of
the world's top silver producers. By the time the silver market crashed
fourteen years later, it had acquired tasteful residential palaces,
grand hotels and an opera house. In the 1930s, when the population
slumped below seven hundred, it was, ironically, the anti-poverty WPA
program that gave the struggling community the cash to build its first
crude ski lift in 1936. Entrepreneurs seized the opportunity presented
by the varied terrain and plentiful snow, and the first chairlift was
dedicated on Aspen Mountain (now known as Ajax) in 1947. Skiing has
since spread to three more mountains – Aspen Highlands, Snowmass and
Buttermilk Mountain, and the jet set arrived in force during the 1960s.
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Wild Fig
Standing conveniently opposite the Wheeler Opera House (the same Wheeler who brought the Jerome to town), sunflower-yellow-walled Fig burst on the scene in the 2003 ski season and has been packed ever since-which isn't hard when there are only ten tables. It's a local couple's labor of love-together, they've worked in every other Aspen hotspot, and they clearly took the town's pulse accurately. What everyone wants is mixed-Med dishes like clams and chorizo and "fish in ...
( Added: 2006-06-20 20:47:00)
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