Tom Moxcey is good to go.
He’s the amicable restaurant guy who opened the impossibly popular Elway’s in October 2004 — and he’s been running it 2 4/7 ever since. I swear, when you see him there first thing Sunday morning after a hellacious Saturday night, you think he has been sleeping in the coat-check room.
But word came down Sunday morning that Saturday night was Moxcey’s last night running the steakhouse. It all seems very sudden — but the spin is that Moxcey wants to move on and it is time to move on. He will continue to be involved with Elway’s and owners Tim Schmidt and John Elway in some capacity yet to be defined.
(BTW, Schmidt also owns the mini-chain Hacienda Colorado, with a new one set to open May 5 at East Mexico Avenue and South Colorado Boulevard.)
I hope Moxcey finds a way to work less, make more money and spend more time with his beloved grandkids.
He says he is not jumping ship to head up another steakhouse.
“I have a pretty good idea about managing a restaurant and what people ought to be doing — so I’m going to go sell that as a consultant,” he says. “I think I can help other companies with that.”
“It’s all very copacetic,” Schmidt says. “Elway’s has always been Tom, John and Tim, and still will be.”
Tats entertainment.
Tambien launched its Sunday afternoon Rockabilly and Ribs picnic this past weekend — and Cherry Creek might never be the same.
About 100 motorcycles and classic cars were lined up on Steele Street as Eddie Clendening and the Blue Ribbon Boys blasted the rockabilly beats onto the street. An eclectic convention of peeps shoehorned into the bar, sporting so many tattoos that the place could have been renamed Tat-bien. The Q was getting quiet biker nods of approval: turkey legs as big as children, BBQ spare ribs, corn on the cob, whole chickens — all washed down with midday doses of bourbon, beer and tequila. A slop hop is born — 2 to 7 p.m. Sundays, 250 Steele St.
Free advice.
Denver couples therapist Carolyn Bushong gets quoted in Star Magazine, giving advice to Britney Spears about her splintered relationship with Kevin Federline.
“There’s no way to put a relationship that was so destructive back together without counseling,” Bushong says. “That involves a lot of work, but it can be done.”
Maybe Brit can stop in to see Bushong next time she makes an imaginary shopping trip to the outlet stores in Castle Rock.
City spirit.
Sightem: Denzel Washington, Doug Moe and George Karl at Bill Ficke’s Big Bill’s New York Pizza in Centennial on Friday night. Washington was in town with his son for a Pump N Run basketball tourney — and Big Bill’s is the hoopster hangout because bighearted Ficke is a former assistant coach of the Nuggets . . . Sez who: “Remember, folks, streetlights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.” Jim Samuels
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