Six buddies walked into a gay bar and couldn’t hear the sounds of their own voices over the blasting DJ music. So, they decided to open their own.
This month, Denver bar veterans Andrew Glardon, Phil Newland, Jack Herrick and Drayvon Gonzalez, along with couple Keifer Mansfield and John Varsames opened Buddies at 504 E. Colfax Ave., where Prohibition Bar previously operated.
“We just want to have a bar to come to where it’s not so loud and you can’t talk to your friends or anything like that,” Glardon said. “It’s not a dance club; we’re not blowing your ears out with music. It’s a come-as-you-are bar, where you can come out and hang with your buddies.”. Glardon, Newland, Herrick and Gonzalez all met while bartending at the longtime Denver gay bar.
Buddies has a pool table, darts, 12 beer taps and plenty of “gay water,” as the owners call vodka sodas with a splash of cranberry juice. The East Colfax bar also kept Prohibition’s chef, Ryan Smith, who is serving up “never-frozen” bar food, like bacon and gouda mac-n-cheese bites, chicken tenders, burgers and wings.
“Almost every gay bar in town always has some kind of dance component, so we wanted to do something completely different,” Newland said. “We wanted to add to Denver’s gay bar community, not compete, and so far, it’s paid off.”
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