Tiki Torch extinguished

It was fun while it lasted, but the Tiki Torch Restaurant and Bar has been extinguished after less than six months. Last summer, the tiki bar/restaurant took over the former home of the Okoboji Inn at 5280 West 25th Avenue in Edgewater. But Mykel Martinez, who'd owned the legendary 15th...

By Patricia CalhounJanuary 27, 2009

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It was fun while it lasted, but the Tiki Torch Restaurant and Bar has been extinguished after less than six months.

Last summer, the tiki bar/restaurant took over the former home of the Okoboji Inn at 5280 West 25th Avenue in Edgewater. But Mykel Martinez, who’d owned the legendary 15th Street Tavern, has now closed the Tiki Torch and put the place up for sale while he concentrates on converting the former Continental Club, at 475 Santa Fe Drive, into One-Eyed Jacks, slated to open next month.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor emeritus of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She was editor-in-chief from 1977-2026. 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 (probably for her bar tab). She’s 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, and is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS12’s public affairs roundtable.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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