Handlebar Tavern

«Closed for renovation,» hopefully the are renovating their menu and beer prices because this place was very questionable on multiple occasions.

Trivia, shuffle board, beer, bar food. They’re in a great west-​Wash Park location and they have parking. They announced that they’re renovating this summer and I hope they’re changing the layout. There is a large bar in the middle of the room which makes be place feel smaller than it is. Also, it makes the area around the bar crowded.
I’ve only been here for dinner/​trivia, never late night so I’m not sure what the crowd is like then. During dinner, it’s a lot of 25 – 35 yr olds and usually a softball and kickball team.
It’s a fine place but doesn’t exactly stand out.

Great local Wash Park bar and grill.

The last time I went here was in the 90’s and it changed A LOT. I’m sure it had a different name or different owners because this space was much different.
On one side of the bar was a birthday party.
First thought that came to mind was WTF? How can you have a birthday party at 6 pm on a Saturday night.
Second thought was, wow that’s a lot of kids, I hope the idiots that brought them don’t let them run amok.
Disclaimer: I have a kid and when you have a kid you’ll understand that parents of today are self-​centered child worshiping assholes. I wish men would grow a pair and tell their wives, «taking johnny and suzie to a bar is a stupid idea and I wish your parents raised you to have some common sense.» Alas most men have vaginas and so the rest of the world has to put up with their lack of balls.
To our surprise, the idiots kept their kids at bay.
Service was awesome. There were several beers on the menu that I had never tasted. No problem. The waitress brought us different beers to taste.
We started with the duck wings. One word: awesome!
Then onto the nachos. One word: fantastic.
We had such a good time we didn’t even watch the NCAA tournament.

Literally swung into the parking lot on a whim. I was a little confused by all their specials (Burger night, wednesday night, starts at 6, the same time happy hour ends). I got a fish taco on HH that was VERY good. Got a burger special ($ 10) that was also really good. Truthfully it was a great meal especially for the price.

Gone are the good old days of the Handle Bar with Mike Miller (original owner). The Handle Bar has gone thru a few changes after its original start (the failed Downing Street Grill circa 2010ish) before coming back to something like the original a couple of years ago. However, they recently changed the menu — it is now limited and entirely uninterpretable. The service was inattentive. The kitchen was slow. I live around the corner and have been a regular since its start back in 1997 but doubt I will be going back.

We live right around the corner and have enjoyed this neighborhood bar… but last night we took some guests with us and we had a less than enjoyable experience.
The new menu is limited and nothing looked that great. My husbands favorite burger is gone. I got the Curried Quinoa… it was less than impressive. It was too creamy… made me feel sick. I ordered it with chicken, it came with out and our waitress still
Charged us.
Service was friendly but SO slow. It took our food at least 40 min to get to us. It took our waitress 20 minutes to take out order… so it was well over an hour that we just sat there. Waitress didn’t check to see if everything was ok… hence I never got my chicken!
All 4 if us just shrugged and said «it’s ok» when we we’re talking about our meals with one another.
I’m so disappointed. I don’t think we will be back.

Handlebar is a great little bar with great service. Good beer selection, and their Tuesday night Ladies night specials are awesome.
But above all, their food is some of the best bar food in Denver. Lots of great sandwiches, and lots of great vegetarian options. What bar serves vegetarian quinoa sautes? And one that’s good? No other bar, that’s what. Great vegetarian options, which not a lot of bars can say.
Overall, great bar to go to!

This place has hands down the best chicken tenders I’ve ever had. Those belong on a «best of Denver» list.
I’ve come here sporadically over the years, and always considered it an average bar with nothing particularly outstanding about it. They seem to have done a makeover since my last visit. I met a friend here for drinks and we decided to order some food. Enter the aforementioned tenders. Soaked in buttermilk and cooked to order. Amazing! I ordered the Godzilla sauce to go with them assuming that was the hottest offered. The bartender corrected me and gave me both that and the habenero sauce. The former is great with fries, but the latter is perfect for the tenders. Nice and spicy and extremely flavorful as well. My friend ordered the green chili, and I’d recommend this as well.
The service was great at the bar when we were there. They have a great tap selection and it’s a comfortable neighborhood spot.
I may have come back the next day for lunch and had those tenders again…

I went here for the first time a couple of nights ago and was really impressed by the service, the atmosphere, and the food. The waiters were attentive and very friendly. The atmosphere was very comfortable (my friend and I sat in a booth). I love that they have a parking lot. I ordered the green chili cheese fries and the green chili was superb! I love a good green chili! Overall it was a great visit. I can’t wait to go back.

One of the Pour Kids bars, this one is the best. An energetic and friendly staff, lots of beers (many local), and a cook staff that knows what they’re doing. I’d recommend a few items: The Morning After Skillet, The Steamboat Burger, The Preggo Burrito, and the Mac & Cheese with Bacon and Mushrooms (delish). Voted Best Green Chili by Westward 2013! Lots of TVs for the sports fan and many out of town team fans hang out here. Trivia and other activities too. Highly recommended!

We had the nachos tonight. Value under $ 10 was perfect to split, beer specials at $ 3. Can’t go wrong.
Krystn was great and even introduced herself at the get go.

If you’re looking for a place to go in the area, but without the riff-​raff of Broadway, Handlebar is a really good option. Don’t get me wrong, i love Broadway just as much (if not more) than the next guy, but sometimes you just need a break from it all.
They have good drink and food specials (generally better than those you would find on Broadway), and you’re just far enough away from the bar crawl crowd that theres a good chance you can actually have a low key (but still fun) time here.
Good drink selection — and the huge center island bar means you usually wont be cramming through a crowd to get them.
The flat breads are great… I had the Greek and it was excellent… fresh ingredients and a great flavor… definitely a step above your typical bar food. During happy hour i think they are $ 3 bucks too. Definitely worth it.
Add skee ball and great service to this mix — and you’ve got yourself an all around solid spot to hang out and grab dinner and/​or drinks.

Good food, but not great. Everything tasted like stuff I could make at home. If I wanted to eat at home… I would. I ordered the sriracha chicken flatbread which was good and spicy (lots of sriracha and jalapenos) but like I said it literally was like something I could throw together at home in 5 minutes. My dad ordered the Asian quinoa sauté which was also nothing to write home about.
Not sure about the nightlife which I’m sure is fun, but I wouldn’t go here just to eat because it was pretty dang boring

Tip #1 — Thursdays are trivia night and they prizes are better than any other place I’ve been to in a while.
Tip #2 — It’s a bar, not a restaurant, so eat before or afterwards. The barfare isn’t worth writing about.
This place was one of my favorite places to hit after a few games of tennis over at Wash Park. Cheap beer, plenty of variety, tons of large screen TVs and very cute and helpful waitresses. It’s still a great place to meet up after work, and it’s location is more conducive for people who live down south to join you.
Bonus for having their own parking lot!

The Handle Bar used to be a staple but with multiple owner changes, it is just not the same. It has improved since being the Downing Street Tavern for a short stint, where it had really gone down hill and only worthy of one star.
Most notable disappointment is the food. The menu looks relatively unchanged but the ingredients and culinary skill has definitely suffered. Too many Cisco items now replace fresh made food.
If you are just looking for good drink specials to watch a sporting event, then its a good spot but for a place that used to be a neighborhood eatery, we want some better grub to go with our beer and sports.

We came here to watch a UFC fight — it’s the perfect spot! We had a nice table in the corner — lots of TVs, good service, and reasonably priced beer! Service was fast and attentive.
I also tried their house-​made veggie burger which was surprisingly good. A little bit of spice, nice hearty texture — all in all, pretty decent! We’ll definitely come here again to watch a fight.
But I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the bathrooms — really pretty disgusting. The ladies room has one stall, the door barely closes, and everything inside looked to be falling apart, rusted, dirty. pretty gross, and I don’t really consider myself a squeamish person. This is one area that definitely need improvement.

With a Monday night special boastin $ 3 Oskar Blues Pints and Cans and .50 assorted wings — it’s enough to get you out of your warm house and into a loud and noisy sports bar. I’ll begin by review as my experience began at the Handlebar — Not living far from this seemingly fun and energetic joint, we were eager to see what all the fuss was about inside. The server from the get go made it pretty clear that were some sort of nuisance or bother for ordering what any normal person would do… order. Though, the service did improve as my smile became increasingly and kiss-​ass attitude became increasingly bigger each time she visited our table as to avoid spit in my food.
This spot is definitely loud inside, but can be a great spot to catch the game. I can speak on behalf of the standard Sports Bar menu items, i.e. burgers, wings, sandwiches, but I can say the Buffalo Chicken Salad was overloaded with hearty ingredients and the chicken had an interesting twist on the Buffalo chicken. It’s as if the chicken was baked in a dry rub. Nonetheless, it was tasty and I enjoyed every last bit of it. Oh — and they have a few arcade like skee ball and a shuffleboard to let competitive side run free like the wind (especially if your team is losing. womp. womp.)

Came here to check out their Tuesday night karaōke show. The remodel definitely updated the look of this place. It’s clean and roomy now. Service is a bit slow, but the waitress was really nice. Another plus is that they have off-​street parking.
There weren’t very many people here, but most that were came to sing. And I do have to say that there really weren’t any bad singers. Everyone did pretty well. Due to the lack of people, the rotations were short. Not always a bad thing. The sound is really good, so that helps to ensure that everyone sounds good when singing. It’s Uncle Dutchie’s karaōke which means the song selection is vast. If you don’t see it in the book, just ask the KJ and he just may have it.
Drinks were a bit on the pricey side and not very strong. Stick with the cheapest beer you can find if you come here. The battered mushrooms I ordered was very good and definitely not the frozen stuff. The other stuff on the menu was typical bar food.

2 stars based solely on the meal I had here but definitely willing to give them another shot. Walked down for lunch with my neighbor and each grabbed the buffalo chicken salad. The lettuce was on the cusp of wilted and the chicken seemed to be overcooked. It was huge and the blue cheese dressing was yummy so points for that.
Checked out the new menus and found it odd that they had chicken wings at market price? Being curious I asked why that was and our waitress said she really didn’t know why they did that. There may be a perfectly reasonable explanation i had just never seen that before.
They have a limited breakfast menu during the week and full breakfast on weekends. I look forward to going back and am hopeful that they were still working out the kinks when we went in. It would be great to have go to place so close to the neighborhood.