Marea at The Snow Lodge. Marea

Marea will open at The Snow Lodge within The St. Regis Aspen Resort on December 22, and executive chef PJ Calapa has a clear vision for his version of après-ski dining. 

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“When we toured the space, they were like, ‘Eat your carbs and drink your chlorophyll water,’” Calapa tells Observer. “And I was like, ‘Well, I’m bringing all the carbs.’”

Marea is an elegant Italian seafood restaurant that’s been a fixture on New York’s Central Park South since 2009. It opened its second location in Beverly Hills last January. Like in California, Marea will serve its most popular plates (like its fusilli with octopus and its lobster with burrata) while unveiling new dishes at its Aspen residency. 

Calapa is bringing staples like his branzino tartare and his caviar-topped garlic bread bruschetta to Aspen, while also considering the winter weather and appetites he’ll encounter at The Snow Lodge.

“I don’t want it to be so cookie-cutter in the sense that you go to Marea anywhere and it’s going to be the same,” Calapa says. 

Cooking in Los Angeles led Calapa to create dishes like avocado filled with spot prawn tartare and a shaved artichoke salad. In Aspen, Marea will have a new crab-and-caviar dish and a new frisée salad with tuna lardon.

At the same time, “We took a little inspiration from Aspen and the mountain and went a little less........

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