Base Village in Snowmass can now lay claim to an outdoor ice-skating rink, the new Limelight Hotel and, if you’re to ask Mawa McQueen, the world’s most expensive crepe.
“Google it,” she said with a laugh. “Nobody has a $120 crepe.”
McQueen, an Aspen chef who was born on the Ivory Coast and raised in Paris, opened The Crepe Shack earlier this month in conjunction with the expanded Base Village.
Part of her mission with the new take-out restaurant, she said, was to defy what she believes is an unfair stereotype about the underrated crepe — as if the culinary fare’s potential is limited to Nutella and bananas, or ham and cheese — a French term which when translated to English means pancakes.
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Base Village in Snowmass can now lay claim to an outdoor ice-skating rink, the new Limelight Hotel and, if you’re to ask Mawa McQueen, the world’s most expensive crepe.
“Google it,” she said with a laugh. “Nobody has a $120 crepe.”
McQueen, an Aspen chef who was born on the Ivory Coast and raised in Paris, opened The Crepe Shack earlier this month in conjunction with the expanded Base Village.
Part of her mission with the new take-out restaurant, she said, was to defy what she believes is an unfair stereotype about the underrated crepe — as if the culinary fare’s potential is limited to Nutella and bananas, or ham and cheese — a French term which when translated to English means pancakes.
Read the rest of the story on The Aspen Times.