Downtown Aspen Off-Season Restaurants: Where to Eat Fall 2026

Across Hyman Avenue from the Wheeler Opera House, the building that once held Eric's Bar and later Gravity Haus now has a market that opens at 7 every morning. It goes by ThreeFifteen, for its address at 315 E. Hyman Ave. The building houses a market and bakery, a sit-down restaurant, eight artist studios, a tattoo studio, a vintage shop and the newsroom of the Aspen Daily News. It held its grand opening on Thursday, Sept. 17.

Within six weeks of that opening, most of the core's best-known dining rooms on Mill Street, Cooper Avenue and Hyman Avenue will have gone dark for the season. This is the first fall off-season with a building full of local operators sitting in the middle of the core, open every day while the closures stack up around it.

The Closures Come in Waves

The fall 2026 off-season guide from eatAspen shows the core emptying out on a schedule, not all at once. The guide updates daily as restaurants adjust, so treat these dates as current as of this writing, not as promises.

1. Sept. 29: Duemani on South Monarch Street closes and plans to reopen Dec. 4.
2. Oct. 3: Bosq on South Mill Street closes through Dec. 10, and Oct. 3 was also Cache Cache's last summer night before a Dec. 11 return. The Aspen Saturday Market closed out its season the same day.
3. Oct. 6: Matsuhisa closes its upstairs dining room through Dec. 11, except on Mondays.
4. Oct. 11, today: PARC Aspen on East Hyman closes until Dec. 15. Betula on East Cooper closes until Nov. 26, after finishing a $65 two-course dinner special that ran through Oct. 10.
5. Oct. 18: The Wild Fig on South Mill closes through Nov. 26.
6. Oct. 21: French Alpine Bistro on East Hopkins serves its last night, with a Nov. 25 reopening planned.
7. Oct. 25: Aosta on East Durant and The Monarch Steak House on South Monarch both close through Nov. 26.
8. Nov. 9 to 17: Aspen Brewing Co. on South Galena takes a short break of its own.

ZigZag at 624 E. Cooper Ave. is already closed for the season, and eatAspen reports that Le Cafe is coming to the space in December 2026, with no opening day announced.

Downtown retail lost a longtime storefront before any of this started. The Aspen Daily News reported that Aspen Eclectic, the toy, game and gift shop at 635 E. Cooper Ave., would close its store on Friday, Sept. 4, as its lease neared its end. The owners said they would keep making and selling some items.

The Quietest Weeks Run From Oct. 25 to Thanksgiving

The deepest stretch of closures begins Oct. 25, when Aosta and Monarch join a list that already includes PARC, Betula, Wild Fig, French Alpine Bistro, Bosq, Cache Cache, Duemani and ZigZag. That stretch lasts about a month, until French Alpine Bistro reopens on Nov. 25. Aspen Snowmass lists Nov. 26 as Aspen Mountain's opening day for the 2026–27 season, which is also the day Betula, Wild Fig, Aosta and Monarch's closure windows end.

These downtown places are listed as open through the off-season, with the adjustments the fall guide notes:

The address 205 S. Mill St. shows how uneven the season is. Cache Cache, Campo de Fiori and Las Montanas all list it. Cache Cache is closed until December, while Campo de Fiori and Las Montanas keep serving dinner. Yuki's has also posted fall 2026 specials, with specially priced dishes, cocktail and wine deals and a separate bar menu.

Most of the open list is dinner, burgers, pizza or a quick crepe. Eddy's Market is the only place on it that opens at 7 a.m. every day of the week, and it sits in a building designed to keep people around after they finish their coffee.

What Makes ThreeFifteen Different in a Quiet Month

The building came about almost by accident. In its Sept. 16 report on the opening, the Aspen Daily News explained that its own sale to Hoffmann Media Group in February meant the newspaper would lose its longtime offices at 625 E. Hyman Ave. Publisher David Cook asked developer Mark Hunt about renting a couple of unused offices at 315 E. Hyman, and Hunt encouraged him to take on much of the building instead.

The paper reported that most downtown landlords are pursuing leases with national and international companies. Cook went the other way and filled the building with locally run businesses and community space. "We're really hoping to shift the trend back towards favoring locals for these important buildings in downtown Aspen," he told the Daily News.

Sisters Liz and Sondra Savickas run both upstairs food spaces. According to the same report, Eddy's Market combines 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 and an all-day menu that Liz Savickas called "all-American": salads, sandwiches, wraps, chicken Parmesan, meatball subs, family recipes and rotating specials. The operator's site lists the kitchen as open Thursday through Monday and closing at 6 p.m. The opening time is listed differently in different places, so check before planning an early lunch.

The rest of the building gives a weekday coffee somewhere to go. Buckhorn Public Arts, under founder Tim Sack, leased eight offices for a year and turned them into rent-free studios for the Aspen Arts Club, with each artist given a six-month residency. Sack estimated that six of the eight artists had never had a dedicated studio before. Downstairs, a flexible event space called The Grove has already hosted comedy, yoga and breathwork. As of the Daily News report, no fall dates had been announced.

Liz Savickas described the idea to the paper as something like a downtown block party, where you can get coffee, run into a friend, meet an artist working upstairs or catch an event downstairs.

The Block Around It Stays Busy in October

ThreeFifteen also sits next to the core's busiest fall calendar. The Wheeler Opera House calendar is full across the street through the end of October:

• Oct. 14: Craig Robinson
• Oct. 15: In the Company of Wolves: An American Journey
• Oct. 16 and 17: Shining Mountains Film Festival screenings
• Oct. 20: Kiliii Yüyan, Indigenous Wisdom for a Modern World
• Oct. 21: a free Wheeler Open House, 4:30 to 6 p.m.
• Oct. 24: Vienna Boys Choir
• Oct. 31: The Lost Stop

Eddy's Sit and Stay's 4 to 6 p.m. happy hour ends just before most evening curtains, and the Oct. 21 open house begins half an hour into it.

The rest of the core fills in the remaining days. Aspen Film is showing The Met Opera HD|LIVE: MACBETH at 11 a.m. on Oct. 16 at the Isis Theatre, 406 E. Hopkins Ave., followed by a CARMEN encore at 1 p.m. on Nov. 13. On Oct. 24, Aspen Film and Belly Up are pairing a 7:30 p.m. Rocky Horror Picture Show screening with a 9:30 p.m. set by Jocko Homo. Aspen Words is holding its Fall Writers Workshop on Saturday, Oct. 17, in the Dunaway Room at Pitkin County Library, 120 N. Mill St.

November belongs to the Aspen Art Museum. Its Community Ofrenda will be on the rooftop from Oct. 27 to Nov. 8, and visitors are invited to add notes and flowers. The museum's Day of the Dead celebration runs from 3 to 6 p.m. on Nov. 8. Two exhibitions stay up all season: Kerstin Brätsch's Fossil Psychic Stone Mimicry (Aspen) through March 31, 2027, and Adrián Villar Rojas's First Gods, Lost Animals through April 18, 2027.

When the Lights Come Back On

The reopenings are spread out much like the closures. French Alpine Bistro plans to return Nov. 25. Betula, Wild Fig, Aosta and Monarch reach the end of their closure windows on Nov. 26, which is also Aspen Mountain's listed opening day. Duemani follows on Dec. 4, Bosq after Dec. 10, Cache Cache and Matsuhisa's upstairs room on Dec. 11, and PARC after Dec. 15. Las Montanas plans to bring back lunch in mid-December, and Le Cafe is expected at the former ZigZag space sometime that month.

Between now and then, Eddy's Market keeps its listed hours of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day in the old Eric's Bar building across from the Wheeler.

I watch downtown change every season, and whether a building like ThreeFifteen can stay in local hands is something I'll keep following as ski season begins. If you'd like to talk about the core, from where locals spend a quiet November to what happens to buildings like this one, Aspen Luxury Real Estate is always glad to hear from you. Let's Connect.