Local Italian eatery Campo de Fiori will celebrate its 30th anniversary on Wednesday, Dec. 4, bucking the trend of independently owned restaurant closures in Aspen. “Campo has always been about the locals and making every guest who walks through the door feel special,” owner Elizabeth Plotke Hall said. “No pretense whatsoever. Great food, great energy and service, all with lots of love and little details to make things feel beautiful.”

Plotke Hall arrived in Aspen when she was 25 years old, fleeing a post-college corporate job in search of a different kind of life. She had only skied a couple of times before quitting her job as a buyer for a pharmaceutical company. She intended to spend six months here and then move to Europe. Eighteen months later she had saved $50,000 and saw an 800-square-foot space that had sat empty for two years.