2 Best Restaurants in Redstone and Marble, Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley

Slow-cooked baby back ribs smothered in homemade BBQ sauce are what the Crystal Club Cafe is known for. But this pastel-colored, riverside restaurant with a wraparound porch also serves comfort-food staples like beef tenderloin with a raspberry chipotle sauce and Colorado lamb chops with rosemary mint sauce. Plenty of picnic tables on a grassy lawn beckon in the warm-weather months.

A giant smoker sits in front of the two-story wooden structure, with rocking chairs on a large front porch and a line of picnic tables outside. Barbecue sandwiches and platters are what you would expect, served in heaping helpings and coated in messy, delicious sauces. A second location in Snowmass is open year-round.