Jax Fish House in Denver closes Jan. 1 for two-week remodeling
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Jax Fish House in Denver closes New Year’s Day for a two-week remodel. But staffers such as star bartender Tim Harris, in photo, return. (File photo)
Jax Fish House in Denver is taking New Year’s Eve to heart, ringing out the old and ringing in the new with a two-week remodeling that will close the restaurant starting Jan. 1. Of course, they’ll still do their annual Dec. 31 blowout, complete with bubbly and noisemakers.
“This is just a matter of continuing to evolve,” says owner Dave Query, who opened Jax’s LoDo room in November 1996, refurbishing the old Terminal Bar memorialized in a Tom Waits song. “The bar will expand and it will have a new look and menu, but with the same staff, which is a team crucial to our success,” says Query, who has been an area restarateur for more than 20 years.
Jax, which opened its first restaurant in Boulder, is arguably responsible for bringing super-fresh seafood to Denver — at least in a way that stuck. More than a few Colorado residents had their first bites of Kumamoto and Fanny Bay oysters at the raw bar, thanks to Jax and air couriers.
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