Willow Creek Bistro

Great food. Large portions. Reasonable prices.
Mountain décor with great atmosphere. Friendly staff, quick service.
Great for lunch and dinner.

Great dinner, excellent service.
Located inside the Ritz Carlton Aspen Highlands.
We had the Calamari and Truffle Parmesan fries as appetizers. Both were great and enough for 5 to share.
The meatloaf, ribs, burgers are great and large portions for hungry skiers. The service was excellent and attentive. Definitely would eat here again!

I have to say this was one of the most disorganized lunches I have ever experienced. They could not get any of our orders right and they brought all of our food at different times. I appreciate that they kept apologizing but needles to say I never enjoyed my lunch.

We’ve enjoyed coming here after hiking Maroon Bells. It’s great to sit outside and enjoy a few drinks. The Elk Flatbread is tasty.

I would highly recommend making your way down here for lunch. We did not get to see dinner options, but lunch was amazing.
The lobster roll with truffle Parmesan fries was big enough for an entire party of 3 people. Not kidding. There was more lobster on my plate than lobster rolls purchased at roadside stands in Maine. Awesome!

A fun place to have lunch after a long bike ride! The guacamole was delicious as was my hamburger. A casual place with good service

I had lunch on the patio at Willow Creek on June 21^st as I was passing through Aspen. Unfortunately, it was not a good experience. I ordered the chicken quesadilla and it arrived — with no chicken, and really wasn’t very satisfying. The waitress was kind enough to not charge me for it, which I appreciated. However, after dropping off the bill, she returned 3 minutes later for payment, and my friend and I hadn’t even looked at the bill yet. We scrambled to pull out our credit cards so that she could run them through. (I was thinking that perhaps her shift was ending so I wanted to let her close out so I wasn’t bothered too much by it.) BUT when she returned with the credit card receipts, she thanked us and took away our unfinished drinks without asking if we were done.
(Also, there was a couple at the table next to us and eventually the gentleman just went into the restaurant bar to get drinks as he was not getting any service whatsoever.)
Overall, the entire experience was really disappointing.

If you are going to have a bad dinning experience it will most likely not happen at a Ritz Carlton. The food is pleasing both visually and the wonderful flavors that originate from behind the kitchen doors. Every waiter usually has a great story and the staff is friendly. A great place to Apre after watching me speed by you all day on skis. See you on the hill.

I was pleasantly surprised by the turnaround of this restaurant. For dinner, they have a «burgers and sandwiches» section of the menu that is reasonably priced, and the food is tasty. I had the Latin-​style grilled chicken sandwich — huge flavor and great price. The waiter also recommended a red wine that paired perfectly with the sandwich. It is out of the way at Highlands, but I’ll find a way to get back there.