Also known as the Bar Bar, the longtime dive bar has endured multiple near-shutdowns in recent years.
The building that houses the beloved Denver dive Carioca Cafe, unofficially known as Bar Bar, was damaged by a fire set outside the 134-year-old structure on Monday morning.
The fire began along an exterior wall, but damage revealed a long-hidden brick doorway, said bartender and manager Rich Granville, who did not know it existed until he arrived on the scene Monday. A quick response prevented the fire from spreading too much inside the structure, he said.“Somebody burned her. They burned our bar,” Granville wrote in the post. He added that he didn’t know “if or when it can be fixed.
Firefighters used forced entry on the doors, leading to some structural damage. Granville, who plays in the bands Poison Politics and Drink Drink Punk, spent Monday and part of Tuesday retrieving undamaged amplifiers, microphones, cables and other music gear out of a storage room. He said all alcohol stock had been removed from the bar, and that firefighters had boarded up the windows.
However, Granville said social media responses and news coverage have helped draw attention to the fire, and he’s confident that if there’s any way he and his employees can reopen, they will. Long known in the DIY art and music scene as Bar Bar, Carioca Cafe is one of central Denver’s last historic, free-standing bars, followingin downtown Denver. Haunts slightly further afield, such as East Colfax Avenue’s Knob Hill, and the nearby Ballpark neighborhood’s Herb’s, have never carried the same punk-rock reputation as Carioca Cafe.
Carioca Cafe at one point late last year was also surrounded by unhoused people in tents, which were moved during a city clearing and replaced with high chain-link fences — which have also since been removed. The aging, one-story bar sits in a building erected in 1890. It started as a saloon and brothel in downtown Denver, according to Bar Bar’s website.
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