Baby, You're a Rich Man

The time is right for Bastien's.

A A A Comments By Jason Sheehan Thursday, Dec 11 2003

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Mark Manger

A room for all seasons: Bastien's could be decorated for Christmas 1958.

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Bastien's Restaurant

3501 E. Colfax
Denver, CO 80206

Category: Restaurant > American

Region: Central Denver

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3501 East Colfax Avenue, 303-322-0363. Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Friday, 4-10 p.m. Saturday-Sunday

16 oz sugar steak: $21.95
Bite Me: $24.95
20-oz. T-bone: $20.95
Prime rib: $17.25/$19.25< br> Club steak: $11.50/$13.50
Pork chops: $11.75
Veal parmagiana: $14.50

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And maybe that's what happened to Bastien's fans from the glory days -- an entire generation sped like dinosaurs toward extinction by one too many Club Steaks, one too many pieces of fried cheesecake -- but that's not all that cut back the crowds. There were years -- okay, decades -- when Bastien's looked tired, dated, not hip at all. It lost some of its charm to the natural attrition of the times, to capricious fads and the cannibalism of fashion du jour. But the family was patient. Now a third generation of owners (sisters Jeannine Bastien, Colette Bowdish and Mary Paula Vigil) and a fourth generation of employees (Jessica Vigil on the floor and Ryan Bastien in the kitchen) have managed to wait out the clock. Today there are places that hire designers to copycat the brand of cool Bastien's has naturally; scenesters and scooter kids and armies of the retro-hip are content to hang out and sip whiskey at places based on the model of supper-club swank that Bastien's invented for Denver almost fifty years ago.

The world has moved on, but Bastien's did not. And now its time has come again.

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