Frank Schultz isn’t just turning down that music. He’s turning it off.
The co-owner of LoDo’s 9-year- old Soiled Dove is moving the music out of the Dove in mid-January and heading east to a state-of-the-art 6,000-square-foot new room in Lowry.
The Soiled Dove will become Tavern Downtown with a bar, games, restaurant and rooftop patio, echoing his popular East 17th Avenue joint, Uptown Tavern. The new Lowry club-restaurant will be called the Tavern Lowry with the Soiled Dove Underground providing the new music hall down under.
This is one smart move. The three venues should open this spring.
Shooting Blanc’s
Blanc the Salon in the Golden Triangle is starring in a reality series, “The Stylist.” And salon owner Ty Tomlinson is producing the show himself. Then he plans to sell it to a network or a local cable outlet.
“Actually, there is a lot of interest in this,” he says. “We’re showing it in January to Bravo and A&E and UPN and Altitude.”
A film crew is in the salon about three days a week, taping the comings and goings of clients and stylists, and their relationships. Shooting should finish in mid-December. From what I hear, the demimonde of the stylist world is wild. “There’s this huge fashion community in Denver,” says Tomlinson. “We have this stigma that we’re a cow town and not up-to-date. What better way to get Denver on the map than to show the country how fabulous it really is.”
Nods
5280’s Top of the Mountains picks include: top bar, 39 Degrees; top spa, Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch; top mountain restaurant, Samplings in Frisco … Shhhhh. The Summit restaurant at the Broadmoor, which is guaranteed to turn Colorado heads with its Adam Tihany design and Rollie Wesen food, is poised for a very soft opening Dec. 1, visits by a bunch of journalists that first week, then an official opening in January … I had dinner at Kevin Taylor’s at the Opera House before “Carmen,” and it rules. You can get a three-course prix fixe for $37.50 or pick your entrees from a roster of 12, none over $26 … New on the bar menu at Strings: Chicken McNoel Nuggets, named for owner Noel Cunningham.
City spirit
The Men’s Dinner at the Palm Monday night attracted a full house at $750 each, all to fight cancer. “This is the real deal,” said Mayor John Hickenlooper, who stuck his head in on the way to a DPS function … William Matthews Gallery is moving after hanging for 15 years on Wazee Street – destination LoDo, but no site yet … Colorado U.S. Rep. Mark Udall was on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” on Wednesday night. Says Udall: “I’ve climbed Mount Everest, trekked across Utah’s desert lands, and even suffered through amoebic dysentery. I can say unequivocally that interviewing with Stephen Colbert was the worst experience of my life” … Gavi, the new Italian joint at 11th and Lincoln run by former Campo GM Sebastian Grazzini, opens with a party Friday night, and you’re invited … Sez who: “I do not seek, I find.” Pablo Picasso
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Husted also appears on Fox 31 News. You can reach him at 303-820-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.
