Pacifica (closed)

excellent service and food; best place in town to watch people go by as you eat

Great Rock Shrimp & Calamari appetizer, really tasty and not to spicy.

Service was attentive and friendly without being intrusive or contrived. The food was up there with the best I've ever eaten. Don't go past the Alaskan King Crab or the scallops and Foie Gras, they were both heavenly! Great value too, for such world class food,

Ordered from happy hour menu. Shrimp and calamari fresh but a slightly greasy. Caesar salad excellent, tuna tartare fresh and tasty but not as many chips as needed. Beer was nice & cold at a great price of $3. Surprised they were out of fish & chips as holiday weekend had just begun. Overall a good experience.

Sunday afternoon a friend and I stopped at Pacifica in downtown Aspen for happy hour and to watch the people on the Aspen pedestrian mall. We shared the tuna tar tar. My friend had the happy hour $5 wine. The service was fast and friendly. The tuna tar tar was excellent.

I absolutely LOVED Pacifica! It was such a wonderful surprise to be fed such delicious meals. Not only was the service spectacular, but the food is something we are still talking about days later! The ahi tuna tartare, salmon tartare, glazed pork belly, guacamole seafood cocktail and scallops and foie gras were all amazing dishes. We had them paired with a wonderful chardonay and were extremely pleased with the ambiance and service. I would highly recommend Pacifica even if you are not a serious seafood lover. This restaurant in my opinion surpasses Montagna in the Little Nell as far as food quality. Spend your money here! Our hats are off to the chef and all of the employees of this fine establishment!!

Had heard good things but was very disappointed. Food was overpriced, dried out, and had very little flavor.

My second time here because it is one of my favorite restaurants in Aspen! This is my third winter in Aspen and ever since we found out about this restaurant, we just kept coming back. They have EXCELLENT food, and the service is great! We had a very experienced waiter. The only downfall about my recent visit was that they made my family wait 20 minutes when we had a reservation assigned for 7:30pm and did not get seated until 7:50pm. The fantastic food made up for the poor service, but this should not happen again!

Pacifica is a seafood restaurant with an adjacent outdoor seating. It is not big - the raw bar taking up a lot of space and it's very noisy. We went there on a Saturday night and the place was full. The menu is big enough, the list long and the prix fixe offers nice selections at $39. We chose from the prix fixe menu. The heirloom tomato salad was good. The Ono was very good and peach dessert very good. The service is scarce. Hordes of service people parade up and down - no one looks at you. There was one person who did but he was busy elsewhere too.

The Pacifica portions are too small.

I really liked Pacifica because this restaurant was a perfect place to chow down after a long day of skiing. On menu they had a nice mix of hot and cold seafood plates, including sushi and sashimi. I had the Hamachi Sashimi for appetizer, which was incredible. It was topped with blood oranges and pears, with some avocado mixed in. For my entree I enjoyed the Seafood Pasta, which came with lobster, scallops, mussels, shrimp and sablefish, braised fennel all in a saffron broth. These people know how to cook! The waitress was very attentive and responsive, and really helped us hurry our meal along as we had to catch a John Oats concert at the Wheeler after the meal. Was sat in a cozy spot shielded from the cold, yet right by a window so we could people watch as we dined. The bar was decorated with several artsy martini glasses filled with fake ice to give the bar a trendy, cool look. I would definitely dine here again if I had the chance.

My wife and I love going to Pacifica during our visits to Aspen it is our favorite. The food is fresh and fabulous. Nothing beats happy hour on the patio in the summer!

I wish that I could give this restaurant ZERO stars. To start, I've never written a review on any site before, but this experience was so bad that I've felt compelled to do so to warn others. While we recognized that the restaurant was busy the night that we were there, we had no problem waiting since we didn't have a reservation. However, there were only two of us and we were the only ones waiting. Two tables became available and it took them 15 minutes (yes, I was watching my watch intently) for them to clean them off when they knew we were waiting and there was hardly any room to stand in this tiny restaurant. It took them another 5 mins or so to reset one. Once we were finally seated, it took forever for the waitress to show up. Once she did, and found out that we weren't interested in appetizers, she apparently decided that we we not worth her time and took an age to show up again to take our order, bring food, bring check. She was terse, rude, sort of threw things around like "how dare you make me actually do my job", slow, and overall the ABSOLUTE WORST waitress I've ever encountered. The food was EXTRAORDINARILY EXPENSIVE (expected for Aspen), but we were shocked by the PATHETIC portions relative to the price. And the food wasn't even that great. For the price, you'd expect the food to at least be above average - it wasn't. We live in CO, so I've been to Aspen many times. I know that it's expensive to eat out there, but this was the most egregious price/portion ratio I've ever seen in Aspen or anywhere else, including Manhattan. Again, no appetizers, no alcoholic drinks - only two MEDIOCRE entrees and we left the restaurant $100 poorer and starving because we couldn't bear to give them another DIME! To sum up: - Too expensive - Mediocre food - HORRIBLE service - Poor atmosphere - Rudeness everywhere - patrons, hostesses, waitress, everyone!

We stumbled upon Pacifica and had the best meal of our trip in Aspen. I had trout and my husband the tuna and we shared lobster crabcakes. Great Service as well!