Houston's promo card shows a crowd, but they're not your average CreekersAn hour after getting all the appropriate permits, the long-awaited Houston's finally opened this past weekend at 303 Josephine Street. This sibling of the Cherry Creek Grill and other restaurants in the Hillstone chain has an expansive, sleek dining room and an inexplicable eleven seats at the bar. Eleven seats? With all the barflies in Cherry Creek? It also has a no-cell-phone rule in the dining room, and on Sunday night
When I ran into Bill Ward at Houston's in early April, he said that his MiniBar, a new watering hole that will be tucked into space under the old Village Inn in Cherry Creek, was moving slowly but steadily along. Now comes news that Ward has set a date fora a grand opening party of May 5, with regular service to the public starting May 8.Michael Wahaltere is working with Ward as exec chef, consultant and manager. It's a "tiny slip of space," he told Lori Midson, that
will "bring New York, Los An
miniBAR opened on Cinco de Mayo, serving specials and drinks, of course. "We are ramping up throughout the week," promises miniBAR's e-mail announcement, "serving food and our full menu starting this Friday."
The grand opening is May 8 and 9 -- and since this spot tucked under the old Village Inn at 2623 East Second Avenue is another venture by Bill Ward, who brought us Slim 7 and Below, you can expect a grand opening, indeed. Get ready, Cherry Creek.
Nancy Levine
Stopped in at Bill Ward's miniBAR Friday night, for an early look at the start of its grand-opening festivities. It's tucked below the old Village Inn at 2623 East Second Avenue.
And although the place is tiny, it's definitely big on style.
MiniBAR, the subterranean Cherry Creek hot spot recently opened by Bill Ward and Michel Wahaltere at 222 Columbine Street, is holding its patio launch party tonight from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., but the tiny bar with the really big patio is also doubling as a Denver Nuggets fan bar and TV viewing pad for game six of the Western Conference Finals between the Nuggets and that other team we won't mention.As part of the bar's Denver Nuggets Stimulus Cheering Package, you can imbibe $3 Nuggets martinis and
​ Just got word from Denver chef/restaurateur Michel Wahaltere that he's been bought out of MiniBAR (222 Columbine Street), the five-month-old miniature lounge (and unofficial viewing headquarters for ABC's Cougar Night) in Cherry Creek. According to Wahaltere, MiniBAR owner Bill Ward is "taking full control of that vision and concept." That means that Wahaltere can focus on another project: opening the Sportsbook at 1432 Blake Street. Wahaltere is looking at a mid-October debut for the
