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Carioca Cafe (Bar Bar)

2060 Champa St.
Denver, CO 80202

303-296-1250

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Category: Bars/Clubs

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It's fascinating to watch how the clientele at the Carioca Cafe, better known as Bar Bar, changes over the course of a day (and three happy hours) -- especially when this classic dive, one of the last left downtown, brings in live music. Get there a few hours before a gig and you'll find some of Denver's finest barflies, a few of which might have been there since the doors opened that morning. As the hour gets later, an assortment of hipsters, punks and rockers mixes in with those barflies, the music gets loud, and the next thing you know, you're in a veritable drinker's nirvana. Dive, he said.

  • Hours: 12pm-2am

  • Features: ATM

  • Entertainment: Live Entertainment

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  • 2010 | Best Place to Watch Day Turn Into Night

    It's fascinating to watch how the clientele at the Carioca Cafe, better known as Bar Bar, changes over the course of a day (and three happy hours) — especially when this classic dive, one of the last left downtown, brings in live music. Get there... More >

  • 2009 | Best DIY DJ Night

    Everyone who has been around the scene within the last decade either knows Sarah Slater or has seen her at some of the most interesting shows, local and otherwise. For the past couple of years, she's organized and hosted her Bring Your Own... More >

  • 2007 | Best DIY DJ Night

    Everyone has a little disc jockey inside of them, and once a month (or so), Carioca Cafe -- better known to scene kids everywhere as Bar Bar -- hosts a coming-out party for all the wicky-wicky wannabes. The concept is simple: Bring your records,... More >

  • 2003 | Best Place to See Chicks Fight

    Carioca Cafe, also known affectionately as "BAR," after its generic neon sign, squats on the desolate corner of 21st and Champa. The astoundingly cheap drinks and great Tuesday-night DJs Chuck and Brian attract a strange mix of clientele: scooter... More >

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  • Review: The Skeleton Show at Bar Bar, 1/7/12

    By Tom Murphy | Sun, January 8, 2012

    THE SKELETON SHOW @ Carioca Cafe ("Bar Bar") | 1/ 7/12Halfway through her set, after hitting who knows what chords and wailing about being hatched from a witch's egg and flying high, Sara Century held More >

  • Bar Bar will soon be serving coffee for all of your early protest-planning

    By Bree Davies | Fri, December 30, 2011

    ​The sign didn't quite seem right: Carioca Cafe -- better known to patrons as Bar Bar, one of the best and last true dives in downtown Denver -- will soon be serving espresso? But the Budweiser- More >

  • Mile High Horror Film Festival adds music component to this year's festivities at Bar Bar

    By Stephanie DeCamp | Thu, October 6, 2011

    ​The second Mile High Horror Film Festival is upon us, and in an effort to make it even bigger and badder, Timothy Shultz and company added a music showcase to the event at Bar Bar this Friday, More >

  • Downtown's last true dive

    By Drew Bixby | Thu, December 04, 2008

    The bummer about Bar Bar (officially the Carioca Cafe, at 2060 Champa Street) is not that the bathrooms are glacial, grimy, graffiti-covered dungeons. It's not that the volatile mix of white, black, brown and out-of-town patrons are wont to drink ... More >

  • Consumed

    Consumed

    By Marty Jones | Thu, April 25, 2002

    It's game day at Coors Field, where thousands of fans are enjoying America's alleged favorite pastime. A few blocks to the east, inside the Carioca Cafe, at 2060 Champa Street, a handful of Americans are reveling in a more revered, longer-lived pa... More >

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