Denver Happy Hour @ Highland Tap & Burger
The Co-Host for the Marchs’ Denver Happy Hour is Juan Padro, Proprietor, Highland Tap & Burger. I met Juan maybe a year ago when I hosted a Denver Happy Hour at Highland Tap & Burger. Since then we've become friends and he and his wife Katie let me host one of my Supper Clubs at their personal residence. Fun & Great people that I wanted to share with you.
Highland Tap & Burger, located in the old Aztec Sol. Great neighborhood bar…event space…Juan & Katie will take great care of you.
Please join us on Monday, March 26th
Denver Happy Hour is the way you want networking to be. Here's the Concept. A New Co-Host(s) & Bar/Restaurant Once a Month. Free Appetizers and Happy Hour Cocktails from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. A Great way to meet new people, catch up with friends, help local businesses and Explore Denver. It's the Best Excuse to mingle during the week. www.denverhh.com
Highland Tap & Burger
720-287-4493
2219 W. 32nd Ave (32nd/Vallejo)
Denver, CO 80211
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Juan Padro
Info@highlandtapdenver.com
720-287-4493
A little about me:
I’m a bit of an extremist in everything that I do. If there is food or drink in front of me I probably go overboard. It’s the same with my friendships and my marriage, I put a lot into them and expect a lotback. Some of you may know me as the owner of Highland Tap and Burger; either that or the guy that’s always at Highland Tap and Burger. What you might not know is that HTB is “my side gig”. I was the first employee and orchestrator of a management consulting firm called Centerline Partners which has offices in Boston and Warren, NJ. We do process improvement work for Life andHealth Sciences, Financial Services and Media and Content. Some of our clients include Merck, Northern Trust, CVS/Caremark, Warner Music, Sanofi-Aventis and State Street Bank. We started in October of 2008 and currently have about 95 full time employees. When I’m blessed with some free time you’ll likely find me on the ice playing hockey (I played college hockey and baseball), on the slopes, at a LoHi restaurant or doing something to help the schools in the community that has welcomed me with open arms. There is a saying “show me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who are”. Well, I’m really proud to be co-hosting Denver HH with my friend Lydia and I hope to prove that old saying correct.
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Highland Tap & Burger
720-287-4493
2219 W. 32nd Ave (32nd/Vallejo)
Denver, CO 80211
Open 7 Days a week 11pm-Close
Highland Tap and Burger is a true community gathering place. We subscribe to theory of “locavesting” where business invests in the communities they reside in, both monetarily and with their time. Core to our values is our neighborhood schools to which we donate minimally 2k per month through fundraising efforts and cash donations. We also sit on boards of numerous groups that strive to improve public education in Denver. HTB, as we have become known has numerous community clubs such as our Wednesday night Run Club which has over 500 members, 50-60 of which meet each Wednesday for a neighborhood run and free pasta, salad and garlicbread to go along with 20% off Avery beers. We have Crafty Ladies, our women’s craft beer club that Katie O’Shea runs. It currently has over 400 members and meets 2 times per month. Breweries from around the Colorado and the world have sent representatives to do beereducation and pairings with different foods. It has become so popular that it has been featured in the NY Times, Denver Post, Zane Lampley, Channel 9 news, Draft magazine and numerous blogs around the country. Both sessions usually sell out with 8 hours or so and this month the wait list for a seat is over 100. The women also were invited by Oskar Blues founder Dale Katechis to brew the first ever woman only conceived and brewed beer in CO. They made 16 kegs of Rye Chai Stout and named it Chi-no Mite! It sold out in one month.Of course, people also come to HTB for the food. We call it “fine dine between the bun”. Our chef Eli Odell came to us from Game Creek club in Vail and prior spent time at Vest Dipping Grill. We asked Eli to take some fine dine techniques and flavor profiles and produce an American style bar menu that was fun, delicious and made in house. He has succeeded. HTB won the people’s choice for best burger in Denver at the Denver Burger, was named best burger by Westword, best bar food by channel 9 news and was called the “Highland Mystique” by 303 magazine. I suppose the mystique comes from the fact that when you walk in you see walls with TV’s, beer on tap and basic tables but for some reason, people continue to fill the restaurant up every day. So what’s so special about HTB? The secret is the people, the reggae music, the feeling of ownership we grant our friends andmost of all hospitality which we hold as the greatest virtue of success. We hope you enjoy your time with us and please make the effort to meet as many HTB employees as possible. We think you’ll become a great friend as well.
Denver HH is the way you want networking to be. A New Bar/Restaurant Many Times a Year. Occasional Appetizers and Happy Hour Cocktail Specials. A Great way to meet new people, catch up with friends, help local businesses and Explore Denver. It's the Best Excuse to mingle during the week..
