Mel’s Anti-Bistro spills onto a patio

Welcome to Mel's. July's heat dried up the outdoor patios, but now that temperatures have cooled off, patios are heating up again. Promising to be among the hottest in town: Mel's Anti-Bistro at 1120 East Sixth Avenue. Charlie Master reports that the new patio opened this week, and it's already...

By Patricia CalhounAugust 14, 2008

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Welcome to Mel’s.

July’s heat dried up the outdoor patios, but now that temperatures have cooled off, patios are heating up again.

Promising to be among the hottest in town: Mel’s Anti-Bistro at 1120 East Sixth Avenue. Charlie Master reports that the new patio opened this week, and it’s already a popular gathering spot — just as this address was thirty years ago, when it was home to Dudley’s and the owners included Mel and Jane Master, Charlie’s parents.

But unlike Dudley’s, which was intimate and enclosed, Mel’s patio is wide open. To almost anything. — Patricia Calhoun

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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.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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