The customized marble bar is in, the chandelier put in and atmosphere is ready.
Time to pour drinks.
Executed Deal, Troy Guard’s latest idea and first wine and cocktail bar, opens Tuesday, Jan. 16., within the Republic Plaza foyer at 370 seventeenth St.
“I believe it’s an attractive bar,” Guard advised BusinessDen inside Executed Deal final week. “I believe this space up right here wants one thing like this. All the pieces is concentrated down in direction of Union (Station) and nothing is up this manner.”
Guard, his spouse and sommelier Nikki, and supervisor Miranda Thomson, crafted Executed Deal’s drink menu. The bar will serve signature and basic cocktails, wine, beer and lightweight bites akin to charcuterie, duck leg rillettes, crab cocktail and the unique TAG tuna tacos (Guard’s private favourite).
And, if you happen to get actually hungry, Guard mentioned you’ll be able to order off the menu of Bubu — his customizable bowl idea one stage down — and workers will deliver it up.
The lounge itself contains cozy cubicles tucked into the partitions, lengthy curvy couches, and pink velvet chairs set round wood tables, all surrounded by greenery.
The constructing’s proprietor, New York-based Brookfield, approached Guard concerning the area two years in the past wanting an amenity for these working in and round it. Guard, who has two different ideas in Brookfield Denver workplace buildings — the aforementioned Bubu and 1801 California’s Guard and Grace — jumped on the chance.
“I really like being in huge buildings,” Guard mentioned. “Should you’re in a freestanding restaurant. you need to get folks to cease. Right here, they’re already in right here, now I simply need to get them to take a seat down.”
Plus, he mentioned he likes Republic Plaza as a result of it’s subsequent door to the Brown Palace and the sixteenth Avenue Mall, which is beneath renovation.
Guard beforehand advised BusinessDen he anticipated opening in October however, echoing others, mentioned he hit delays getting metropolis approvals.
“The town has been actually backing us up on loads of issues, which is an actual bummer,” he mentioned. “There needs to be an even bigger give attention to, ‘We need to get downtown again, so let’s do no matter we will to try this.’”
That is Guard’s first cocktail bar. TAG Restaurant Group, which he based in 2009, operates 5 restaurant ideas — Bubu, Guard and Grace, HashTAG, Los Chingones and the not too long ago revitalized TAG Burger Bar.
However Guard mentioned he’s not frightened about working a spot that focuses extra on drinks than meals.
“I used to be at all times a chef till I opened my first restaurant,” Guard mentioned. “While you open a restaurant … there’s 200 transferring items I’ve to fret about … I can’t simply give attention to one factor. I like doing all the things.”
This story was reported by our accomplice BusinessDen.
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