Subject: Denver Department of Excise and Licenses

• We'll Drink to That

  June 28, 2007

• KJ's Coffee Bar going for its bar exam

  KJ's Coffee Bar opened last summer at 1710 East 25th Avenue, but it finally held its grand opening celebration on May 23. And KJ's could soon have more reason to celebrate. This community gathering place for the Whittier neighborhood is going for a beer/wine liquor license, with a hearing slated for 9 a.m. today before the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses. If KJ's gets the license, it has plans to stay open as late as 9 p.m. on weekends, 10 p.m. on weekends.

  June 1, 2009

• All Wet

  June 15, 2000

• Mezcal cabaret application decision due soon

  After dueling meetings with business and neighborhood groups last week, Mezcal's application for a cabaret license went before a hearing officer with the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses on Monday. Supporters of the application -- which would allow owner Jesse Morreale to regularly feature live music, including mariachi bands (including the great Mariachi Vasquez), rather than just offer music at ten special occasions a year -- far outnumbered opponents. The city is expected to make a d

  January 7, 2009

• Backwash

  March 15, 2001

• Backwash

  April 12, 2001

• Backwash

  April 19, 2001

• Backwash

  May 31, 2001

• The Bite

  July 26, 2001

• Cheba Hut finds itself in a sticky situation

  June 4, 2009

• Backwash

  May 2, 2002

• Backwash

  May 9, 2002

• Backwash

  January 9, 2003

• The Beatdown

  October 23, 2003

• What's wrong with mariachi music at Mezcal?

  January 8, 2009

• 15th St. Tavern

  The search for a home continues.

  May 8, 2008

• Bare Necessities

  Sometimes a girl -- even an almost-naked girl -- just needs a mom.

  July 10, 2003

• Thirst Fridays

  You don’t need liquor to appreciate art — but it helps.

  June 28, 2007

• Pour It On

  Art goes dry.

  May 3, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  From the week of 5/10/2007

  May 10, 2007

• Shape Up Or Ship Out

  Fighting neighborhood crime is just the tip of the iceberg for Capitol Hill's Unsinkables.

  June 13, 2002

• The Home of the Rave

  Promoters hurry to get their acts together -- before parents, police and the courts decide the party's over.

  February 22, 2001

• Neighborhood Watch and Wait

  March 12, 1998

• Dry Society

  Dottie Grisby created a club and applied for a liquor license. That was fourteen years ago, and the city's still a party pooper.

  November 20, 1997

• IF THAT DON'T BEAT AL!

  A NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP MEETS THE UNSINKABLE AL AVRAM.

  March 2, 1994

• Cellar Wine Bar pours out its plans

  The folks behind the Cellar Wine Bar, slated for the former home of the Red Door at 2556 15th Street, have applied with the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses for a beer and wine liquor license. They'll meet with neighbors and the board of Highland United Neighbors tonight at the Asbury Church, 2215 West 30th Avenue, to dsicuss their plans. If the HUNI board votes to support the application, they've agreed to enter into a "Good Neighbor Agreement," as have many other new restaurants/bars

  May 26, 2009

• Taqueria Mi Pueblo goes for a liquor license

  The burrito wars are heating up on North Federal Boulevard, with a new Santiago's and Jack-n-Grill duking it out in the 2500 block, and Taqueria Mi Pueblo offering $1.99 breakfast burritos, as well as other authentic Mexican fare, just two blocks away at 2300 Federal. And Mi Pueblo could soon have another big draw -- alcohol -- if today's liquor-license hearing, slated for 9 a.m. at the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, goes well. Mas cerveza, por favor.

  May 29, 2009

• Wine Cellar, Brio liquor license hearings today

  As reported here in March, the Wine Cellar could soon uncork in Highland. This morning, the prospective owners of the joint, which would take over the spot at 2556 15th once occupied by the Red Door shop, are at their liquor-license hearing before the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses right now, but there shouldn't be a problem, since no one had registered an objection as of last week. And although parking is tough in this area at the area on the edge of Highland -- and getting tougher,

  July 15, 2009

• Chili today, hot tomorrow

  Lori Midson​We're hearing good things about Chili Verde, a new restaurant cooking up southern Mexican cuisine at 3700 Tejon Street. Good things, that is, about everything but its lack of alcohol -- but that could change next month. Owner Eder Yanez-Mota has a liquor-license hearing with the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses on September 11.

  August 25, 2009

• Chile Verde liquor license hearing tomorrow

  Lori MidsonWouldn't these tables look better with beers on top?​ Cross your fingers for Eder Yanez-Mota, the owner of Chili Verde, the spot at 3700 Teon Street that's been cooking up southern Mexican cuisine for a few months now. He opened the restaurant without a liquor license, but all that could change after tomorrow morning's hearing with the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses.

  September 10, 2009

• Confusion over Fusion Cantina, the former downtown Zaidy's

  Zaidy's in Writer's Square​Zaidy's Deli, a mainstay at 121 Adams Street in Cherry Creek for decades, opened a downtown outpost several years ago in Writer Square. It did a decent breakfast and lunch business there, but the crowds flocking to LoDo and Larimer Square in the evening -- and walking right past Zaidy's -- were hard to ignore. So this past spring, the downtown Zaidy's took on a split personality. At breakfast and lunch, it was still a regular deli. But in the late afternoon, it

  September 14, 2009

• Zaidy's turns into Fusion Cantina and goes for a cabaret license...maybe

  The vision for the new Writer Square -- it doesn't look like this now.​David Hannes, president of the Writer Square Condominium Association, has had his hands full dealing with the ongoing renovations at Writer's Square, which have turned the downtown oasis into a concrete desert. He lives above the restaurant that had been Zaidy's Downtown Deli, and he's also kept a close eye on the the changes in the space downstairs, which have added another level of frustration regarding the area's unc

  September 15, 2009

• Zaidy's liquor license up tonight

  The lights were off on Monday, and the listing suddenly disappeared from the upcoming hearings schedule at the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses -- but by all accounts, the liquor-license hearing at which the city will consider whether to expand Zaidy's license to allow live entertainment at the Writer Square location is still on for 6 p.m. tonight. Stay tuned for the next installment in the story of what's now being called Fusion Cantina.

  September 16, 2009

• Confusion reigns over Zaidy's Fusion Grill

  Zaidy's in happier days.​The residents of Writer Square were ready last night with their petitions complaining about a proposed liquor-license change for the former Zaidy's Deli Downtown, which morphed into Zaidy's Fusion Grill this spring and was planning to transform itself again into Fusion Cantina, offering salsa dancing and live entertainment. But the application for a cabaret license, which would allow such entertainment, was dismissed at last night's hearing before the Denver Depar

  September 17, 2009

• Another Asian joint arriving on Alameda

  Lori MidsonThe future site of Asian Diner​ Directly across the street from Swing Thai, less than a block away from Fontana Sushi, exactly one block from Thai Basil and a short three-block walk from Crazy Asian Cafe, sits the future home of Asian Diner. And once it opens at 295 South Pennsylvania Street, that will make five Asian restaurants within a bamboo plant of each other. The vacated space -- a former bookstore -- doesn't show any inward signs of an impending restaurant, Asian or otherwis

  October 14, 2009

• The Tavern's Frank Schultz encounters some flak on Colfax

  The former Flix cafe could become a Tavern.​ It's been a year since Neighborhood Flix, the ambitious movie theater/cafĂ© in the Lowenstein project, pulled the plug -- but with any luck, the lights will soon be back on at 2510 East Colfax Avenue. That's because Frank Schultz, who runs Tavern Hospitality Group (owner of the Cowboy Lounge, the Soiled Dove and all those Taverns -- including LoDo, the one-year-old Wash Park, Uptown, Tech Center and Lowry), already has a contract with the bank d

  November 3, 2009