Steak Bar putting down stakes in Highland

When Jason Sheehan checked in with Joe Vostrejs a couple of weeks ago, he had high hopes that the LoHi Steak Bar that's moving into 3200 Tejon Street -- the old home of North Star Brewery -- would be open in June. He just didn't know when in June. "We...

By Patricia Calhoun

May 15, 2009

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When Jason Sheehan checked in with Joe Vostrejs a couple of weeks ago, he had high hopes that the LoHi Steak Bar that's moving into 3200 Tejon Street -- the old home of North Star Brewery -- would be open in June. He just didn't know when in June.

"We have all the hard stuff out of the way," said Vostrejs, who's bringing Sean Kelly in as chef and partner on the project. Hard stuff like the plumbing, the electric, the inspections. The rest, he said, is just "finishing work" -- little things like walls and furniture.

But while Steak Bar already has a billboard up on Tejon, around the corner from the Masterpiece Deli and Lola in this increasingly hot restaurant neighborhood, there's still plenty of "finishing work" to be done to the place, as seen in the photo below, taken this morning.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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