Takah Sushi has for years been our reliable first meal stop in Aspen and the cross-country flight and it never disappoints; very fresh fish, nice wine choices, innovative alternatives, such as a Viet-Namese type lettuce wrap with not pork but minced shrimp and chicken with the usual cilantro and mint and nuts and hot sauces.
With a bottle of wine and no desserts our bill before tip was $91.56.
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With a bottle of great Sangiovese and no desserts or coffee our bill before tip was $89.38.
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Above the Salt (you'll remember the Days of the Kights when the noble folk ate above the big salt cellar and we underlings, peasants and serfs and neer to well relatives sat below). In any case, it opened this March in the old barrel structure D19 inhabited and has genergally received nice notes but we cannot agree. Colette's panzanella with lettuce, beet greens, red onions, baby tomatoes and parmesan was "so-what" in her words and my special pizza with sausage, black olives, wild mushrooms, kale and two cheeses on tomato paste was a confused mess that was typical of what I call Aspen-Los Vegas very, very busy food.
With a bottle of red Eyetalian, no bottled water, desserts or coffee, before the tip our bill was $77.40.
