Everyone is talking about this new Italian eatery. I haven't been there yet, but soon will. It seems that everyone who is anybody was there during the 2006 Food and Wine Classic this past June. There was Batali, Lagasse, Dana, Cowin and Doug Gonano to name a few.

At restaurant D19 There's no sign outside this new pan- Italian spot, but it's around the corner from the Mediterranean-style Wild Fig; chef Dena Marino oversees both places. At D19, she serves what I think is a quintessential Aspen dish-a hearty minestra soup with tiny meatballs and all the requisite vegetables-and some great entrées, like Tuscan marinated grilled skirt steak.