Aprés hotspot Slopeside on the mountain has a new look this winter, but same awesome vibe. After a summer-long renovation, it’s been upgraded from top to bottom, replacing 30years of debauchery with a motif that’s a little more…groomed.
“The renovation entailed a lot more than it looks like,” says director of operations Collin Kelley.“It was a beast, once we got into it.”
Kelley says they completely removed the elevated dining area, bringing the floor down to grade; installed new slip-resistant LVT flooring(for walking in those ski boots); and added a whole new bar, down to the concrete.“We re-built it in its original location, with new materials that will make it waterproof and able to last another 30 years,”he says.“The old bar was completely molded and rotted out from 30 years of spilled beer, mop water and drips coming off the bottom of ski boots from patrons sitting at the bar. It was in desperate need of reconstruction.”The new bar, he adds, is 27 inches wider with more seats, with the center console and TV island moved for easier traffic flow. “That thing behind the bar was the bane of hundreds of bartenders over the last three decades,”he says.
On the food side, they redesigned and rebuilt the pizza kitchen with a state-of-the-art 96-inch Wood stone pizza oven that weighs 6,800 pounds, added new refrigeration, nonslip kitchen tile, and a new point of sale system that accepts Apple and Google Pay. They also have a new order kiosk letting them take two orders at any given time as well as a new walk-up order window dishing out pizza by the slice and canned beers at lunch and breakfast burritos and coffee in the morning.Throw in afresh coat of paint and new tables and chairs and it’s Slopeside II.“It has largely the same look and feel, just a refreshed ambiance and reimagined flow,”he says. You had us at beer.
