ASPEN MOMENTS · CAFÉ GUIDE
Aspen's coffee scene has grown up: a coffeehouse inside a historic hotel, a Milanese espresso bar off the mall, a café on the Art Museum's roof, and bakeries locals have lined up at for decades. Here's where we'd go first — for a quick coffee before the lifts or a slow breakfast on a day off.
The Aspen Moments Index
Our 11 favorite cafés in Aspen, ranked.
The order is our team's: where we'd send a friend first. Beside each one, its rating on Google Maps, live, and a tap to Yelp and Tripadvisor to compare. Prefer the crowd's view? Sort by Google rating.
11 cafés
01
Photo: Nicole · Google Felix Roasting Co.
Coffee & Pastries
A coffeehouse inside the historic Hotel Jerome, with a lavish old-European interior by designer Ken Fulk. The bar makes its own non-dairy milks and syrups and is known for elaborate signature lattes; breakfast and lunch are served too.
- Quick coffee
- Pastries
02
Photo: Dave K · Google Paradise Bakery
Coffee & Pastries
On the corner of Galena and Cooper for decades — locals simply call it Paradise Corner. Cookies and muffins are baked from scratch every day, there's a long case of gelato and sorbetto, and it stays open into the evening, so it doubles as the after-dinner stop downtown.
- Pastries
- Late-night treats
03
Photo: Sant Ambroeus Aspen Coffee Bar · Google Sant Ambroeus Aspen Coffee Bar
Coffee & Pastries
The Milanese café's Aspen coffee bar, just off the pedestrian mall at 520 E. Hyman. Order Italian espresso drinks like the shakerato at the counter, with cornetti and light breakfast plates. The full Sant Ambroeus restaurant is a separate spot on Main Street.
- Quick coffee
- Pastries
04
Photo: Swedish Hill at Aspen Art Museum · Google Swedish Hill at the Aspen Art Museum
Coffee & Pastries
The café on the roof of the Aspen Art Museum, the Shigeru Ban building downtown, with a terrace facing Aspen Mountain. Intelligentsia coffee, pastries baked in-house — the Nutella morning bun and the kouign amann — plus breakfast tacos and sandwiches.
- Pastries
- Quick coffee
05
Photo: Explore Books and Coffee · Google Explore Books and Coffee
Coffee & Pastries
Aspen's landmark bookstore, in a Victorian house on Main Street, opened a café upstairs in 2025 in its skylit solarium. Bonfire Coffee from Glenwood Springs, pastries from the local French Pastry Cafe, and beer and wine — an easy place to linger with a book.
- Work-friendly
- Pastries
06
Photo: Meadows Café · Google Meadows Café
Coffee & Pastries
A calm café on the lower level of the Walter Isaacson Center at the Aspen Meadows, in the West End. La Colombe coffee and pastries from the resort's own pastry chef — pair it with a walk around the Bauhaus-inspired campus.
- Quick coffee
- Pastries
07
Photo: Eddy's Marketplace - Market & Kitchen · Google Eddy's Marketplace
Coffee & Pastries
A neighborhood gourmet market and specialty coffee shop on Hyman Avenue, open from early morning. Handcrafted coffee and specialty drinks, chef-prepared sandwiches, fresh salads and pastries to go — plus gourmet groceries and local goods, handy for stocking a rental.
- Quick coffee
- Grab-and-go
08
Photo: Poppycocks Aspen · Google Poppycock's
Breakfast & Brunch
Open since 1971, when it started as a crêpe shop, and still serving breakfast and lunch a short walk from the gondola. The oatmeal buttermilk pancakes are the order, and sweet and savory crêpes are still on the menu.
- Sit-down breakfast
- Kids
09
Photo: Silvers Bagel Bar and Peak Provisions · Google Silvers
Breakfast & Brunch
A bagel bar and small market a block from the Silver Queen Gondola, in the space Jour de Fête used to occupy. Bagels are boiled and baked in-house; lox sandwiches are the signature (there's even a caviar option), and grab-and-go provisions make it a fast start to a ski day.
- Quick coffee
- Sit-down breakfast
10
Photo: Ben Blue · Google Spring Café
Breakfast & Brunch
An organic, all-vegetarian café on Spring Street since 2013, with plenty of vegan and gluten-free choices. Locals come for fresh juices, smoothies and veggie omelets, with a small patio for breakfast outside.
- Healthy
- Sit-down breakfast
11
Photo: John Bokram · Google Fuel
Breakfast & Brunch
The long-time locals' café on the Snowmass Mall, an easy walk from the slopes. Espresso, smoothies, breakfast burritos and bagels all day, for skiers and lodge guests alike.
- Quick coffee
- Healthy
Practical Tips
In ski season the lines peak in the hour before the lifts open — go early, or after 10. Many places shorten their hours in the off-seasons (mid-April through May, and October until Thanksgiving), so check before you go.
Staying in Snowmass? Fuel is on the Village Mall, and the free RFTA bus gets you to downtown Aspen's cafés in about 20 minutes.