80 Proof is a speakeasy cocktail bar inside the Four Seasons Resort in Teton Village, at the base of Rendezvous Mountain (about 6,300 feet up) and 12 miles from Jackson Town Square. The door is behind a painting and opens with a room key, which means the price of admission is a night at the resort.
It opened in the summer of 2024, part of a round of upgrades to a resort that has been here since December 2003, when it opened as Four Seasons' first mountain resort. The hotel has 150 rooms, so the guest list is not long. The bar itself is 750 square feet with seats for 30. The design is by CLB Architects, a Jackson firm, and the opening menu is by Nick Gatz, the resort's lead mixologist, who wrote it as a book of cocktails with a story behind each one.
Behind the Painting
There is no sign. One writer who visited in July 2025 described "an obscure door in an unmarked alcove off a corridor." Find the alcove, find the painting and hold up your room key. Keys from other hotels need not apply.
The bar opens at 8 pm, Tuesday through Saturday, and closes at 1 am. On that July visit a cocktail workshop was still finishing when the doors opened, and the first hour was the quietest of the night. Guests who review the hotel say the bartenders explain every drink, and on a slow night there may be just two of them. If you want a counter stool and that explanation, go early.
The Room
The 30 seats are split between counter stools and banquette tables. The bar is red marble with maroon tile, and most of the room follows suit: red velvet curtains, a red plaid couch with velvet pillows, leather chairs, damask wallpaper, a custom toile wall covering and accents of brass. The lighting is soft and the music is 1930s jazz. The resort's own press release calls the maroon-plaid carpet "playful" (that's one word for it).
The menu comes inside an old hardcover book, with a page and a story for each drink. The drinks have ski-inspired names.
What to Drink at 80 Proof, Jackson Hole
Gatz grew up in Maine, visited all 50 states by the time he was 30, and worked in fine dining, construction and guiding before he landed behind this bar. "What makes a cocktail interesting to me is not just the combination of tastes," he has said, "but the intentionality of each element and the story behind its inclusion." His favorite house cocktail to build is the Pedro Romero, layered in several colors and served in a glass shaped like a powder horn. It is "perhaps our most visually compelling," he told Four Seasons Magazine. The resort hasn't published what goes into it, so ask when you order it, and order it first.
The Gunner's 45 is made with Wyoming whiskey and tastes of tobacco, leather and coffee. The tobacco comes from Fee Brothers Tobacco Bitters, which the bartender keeps in an ornate perfume dropper on the back bar.
The Black Diamond is reposado tequila, cucumber and lime, turned black with activated charcoal.
The zero-proof drinks come from bartender Jhett Brown, who makes them without added sugar and uses local flavors like pine and wild berries. The Riki-Tiki is house orgeat (almonds, sugar, rose water), passionfruit, lime, cinnamon syrup and an Italian orange non-alcoholic spirit. The Piña Picante is grilled pineapple, serrano syrup and lime. The No-York Sour uses the same orange spirit with lemon, simple syrup, egg white and alcohol-free orange bitters.
If nothing on the list appeals, tell the bartender what flavors you like and you'll get something that isn't on it. Food is light: marinated Greek olives, caviar deviled eggs, charcuterie and house-made huckleberry macarons. We couldn't find prices published anywhere. It's a Four Seasons, so plan accordingly.
Getting In Without a Room (You Can't)
80 Proof is for resort guests only, and the room key is the only way through the door. Groups can book the bar for private events. Guests also get the resort's complimentary activity calendar, which includes cocktail and mocktail workshops, whiskey tastings, "Sip and Shred" morning mocktails and "The Perfect Pour," a spirit tasting alongside a finished cocktail. The "12 Days of Festive Cocktails" series has run at the bar from late December since 2024, and Brown presents this year's edition. In February 2025 the bar brought in Michael Aredes from New York's Superbueno (Tales of the Cocktail's best new US bar in 2024) for a two-night guest shift with Gatz, 8 to 10 pm, drinks à la carte, so check the calendar before you book.
If you're staying somewhere else in Teton Village, the resort's lobby bar, Ascent Lounge, pours Wyoming Whiskey flights in winter, and The Handle Bar is the resort's ski-in, ski-out pub from Michael Mina. Steadfire Chophouse, which opened in 2025, brings an Old Fashioned cart to the table. For a secret door without the hotel bill, Las Vegas has one behind a working barbershop at The Barbershop Cuts & Cocktails, and New York has one inside a phone booth at Please Don't Tell. For ski-town whiskey with no key required, Park City has the High West Saloon.
Photos: Four Seasons Resort and Residences Jackson Hole, Four Seasons Magazine
