Zane’s Tavern

Zane’s Tavern is one of my favorite local hangouts. Just the other day I had a really rough night at work and every other restaurant in town was closed for food by the one my shift ended. Zanes stays open late and I love them for that reason. Red, the bartender, had my chili ready the second I walked in the door and a nice strong Don Julio drink. He saved my night and my sanity and by default the customers that I serve at my restaurants’ as well.
I love coming here for football Sundays and any other night that I just need to have a drink and relax with chill people. No pretense, just a good old fashioned neighborhood bar.

Im 24 years old and a few friends and I were vacationing in Aspen. The first night, we went out for a few drinks and stopped in to Zanes. It was a good atmosphere and the bartender did a good job. A couple nights later, we went out again and again we stopped at Zanes. It was a good crowd and there were only a few seats left at the bar. My friend and I say at the bar and ordered two beers. The tall, reddish haired, male bartender asked us for our Ids. He took them and handed them back and told us and said he couldn’t serve us because there was no hologram on our IDs. We proceeded to show him the hologram and nicely explained that we are 24 years old and we would love to sit and have a drink at the bar. He told us to leave, and an argument ensued. He then told us to get the f*** out of his bar or he was calling the police for trespassing. Zanes was the only negative that came of our trip to Aspen and I would not recommend it.

You want to watch your favorite sports channel in Aspen? This is the only place to go! Beer flows and I swear chicken wings are the item most consumed on the menu.

Went down last week to have some beer and chicken wings. The kitchen is open so that you can see the cook and all that he does. He must of had a cold and was blowing his nose into a Kleenex and continuing to prepare food without washing his hands. We got up and left. Disgusting.

The best place to watch sports in Aspen. They have a bunch of TVs and the best wings in town. Their cheese steak spring rolls are a hidden gem.
Service can be a tad slow because they usually have just one person working the whole bar. But that one person is always great.

Great locals bar. Favorite place to go for happy hour. Excellent food and chicken wings. Affordable prices for both food and drinks. Plenty of screens with sports so it’s a good place to go out and catch the game as well.

Excellent American/​bar type food if you’re in Aspen village and looking for a smaller local venue to eat, but is rather pricey for what it is.

This was a great place to go to and enjoy some nfl action they have all the games playing on their 11 screens. The service was great and food just as great. The closest thing to back home in aspen

Great Spot with great prices!

Red is the man !!! Great food great prices, best hot wings anywhere

Zane’s does one thing exceptionally well: Their wings are so delicious. You must go any day of the week from 4 – 6 PM for the Happy Hour special of $.50 wings. I ordered five hot wings one night, and they were some of the best wings I have ever had. The Korean BBQ and Terriaki I sampled from my friends’ plates were good too. These wings are super meaty and wonderful.
Other experiences were significantly more lackluster. Zane’s is dive bar ish, but I wasn’t really impressed with the bar food options. I ordered the Fried Mac & Cheese ($ 8.95) one night, and it was on par with the fast-​food version. For the price, totally not worth it. Other appetizers did not impress me either.
Service is hit-​or-​miss. The tacos are supposedly quite good. This was never one of my top places to come in Aspen, but it’s OK.
Credit cards accepted.

Just got horrible service, 3 of us took 5 – 10 minutes to get our drinks ordered, when we got our drinks we placed our food order.
We could see our order sitting in the window and no one was bringing it over, a couple orders cam and went and ours never moved. We eventually decided to tell the guy at the bar that we wanted our food to go, all he said was, «your food is sitting right there it’ll be right out!»
But of course we knew that our food was there, it had been there at least 5 – 10 minutes. and keeping on with our theme, It easily took another 5 minutes to get our food boxed up and ready to go. Did I mention that we never were offered a 2^nd beer or refills on our lemonade either.
Won’t be coming back anytime soon or ever!
Ps: our food was cold by the time we got to eating it, 5 minutes away from this place

After eating at Zane’s I had indigestion for two days. Zanes signature poppers literally destroyed the lining of both my large/​small intestine allowing a seemingly endless stream of feces out of the darkness of my butthole. Several days after my experience at Zanes my friends and I continued talking about how we wanted to go back, semi serious at times, but mostly we all knew that Zanes was now synonymous with a terrible shitting experience. We even joked about driving a snowmobile down a hill and through the bar/​restaurants façade. ⁵⁄₅

We had a great time here, small place, casual. Good prices good food. make sure your order the «tots».

Divey spot great for a small intimate group of friends. I don’t frequent here except for when I have out of towners who wants to watch the game or something.

Pretty cool spot for late night drinks and happy hour. I wasn’t able to go to happy hour but came across it while exploring Aspen for late night eats with friends during our first night. It was a weeknight so it wasn’t packed. My friends ordered the mac and cheese wedges, which are a definite must! My bf and I shared a mushroom philly and a house salad and it was pretty good.
Place isn’t too huge, so if it’s a weekend night, happy hour, or game day/​night, try to get there early. Their kitchen closes earlier than the actual bar, I believe 9 P.M., so try to order food before then.

Been here twice, on e in the summer of 2013, and now in the winter of 2014. Local bar. Amazing wings!!(really meaty and choice of 8? Different flavor all made fresh to oder), a couple local drafts and happy hr before 6pm! It’s doesn’t smell like a dive bar, which is a huge plus for me.
Bartenders are nice. Great place for happy hr :)

Horrible bar… smells like fried food and is dingy and not comfortable to watch any game at. We walked in and after a few min left and luckily found Finbarr’s a awesome Irish pub. The décor is old and had no atmosphere whatsoever.
Not sure how this place got the reviews it has

Could the bartender be less interested? I don’t think so.
We walked up to the bar on a Monday night, sat down to watch MNF. The place wasn’t crowded when we got there at about 8pm but it did get more crowded as the night went on. The bartender gave me a menu and took our drink order. For some reason he never asked if I wanted anything. Not even close. Not even a «you good?» I was sitting at the bar… right in front of him. Wouldn’t you want to sell more. Perhaps I foolishly think that is how places make money. Needless to say, I didn’t. Eventually we paid for our drinks and left.
The place was pretty nice and not pretentious, that was worth an extra star.

My wife was busy one night, so I was looking for a chill place to grab a beer and some food. I lucked out finding this place. It was totally chill and I grabbed a seat at the bar. I had a couple of tasty Shock Tops before ordering some wings (apparently the local specialty). I wasn’t even that hungry, but they were amazingly delicious. They were steaming hot (as in straight out of the fryer hot), and coated with the delicious original hot sauce. I would definitely go back just to sample a different variety.
If you’re looking for an unpretentious way to spend a few hours, grab a beer and perhaps a bite, check it out.