Arvada barbecue enthusiasts will soon have a local outpost of a Denver favorite to frequent, as Post Oak Barbecue is opening an Olde Town location at the corner of Yukon Street and Grandview Avenue.
The property at 7611 Grandview Ave. has been occupied in a temporary capacity by Burd’s Nest Art Gallery since last year. Burd’s Nest has been leasing the space from the Arvada Urban Renewal Authority, which purchased the building to keep it activated until a permanent tennant could be found. Now, it seems like that tennant has emerged.
Post Oak began when owner Nick Prince took a trip down to Texas and was hooked by the state’s barbecue style. Upon return, he bought a smoker and eventually opened the Tennyson Street location of Post Oak in 2019.
Since then, Post Oak has won numerous accolades including winning top honors at the barbecue competition at Arvada on Tap in 2018 and being named “Best Barbecue Restaurant” by Westword in 2024.
Prince said that Post Oak is still in the planning stages and will need to submit a proposal to the Olde Town Design Review Advisory Committee before anything can move forward.
Nevertheless, he said, his goal is to have the restaurant open by Labor Day. Prince talked through the plans for the restaurant, which will have a fairly unorthodox setup, assuming that it gets approved by the Design Review Advisory Committee.
“Aside from where customers enter and order and exit and two restrooms, the entire building will be completely back of house,” Prince said. “There’s no seats inside or anything. What we’re going to do is put a rather large metal canopy outside to cover our dining area. I think our plans are drawn up for anywhere from 80 to 90 seats under this canopy.
“And it’s going to be important for me to make an extremely nice, welcoming environment, even in like February, when the wind is blowing out there,” Prince continued. “I still, I know it’s very doable to do with nice, roll down sides and a properly heated dining space. It will really feel like you’re just inside. And we’re going to have a bar installed outside.”
Prince added that the patio will have fire pits, cornhole and the ability to host live music. He said that Olde Town felt like the perfect place to expand Post Oak’s footprint too because it has a similar feel to Tennyson Street.
“I love hanging out in Olde Town for the same reasons. I love hanging out on Tennyson Street,” Prince said. “It’s more of a town square type deal, than just an entire retail street like Tennyson. But it has, it has similar notes to, park and get out and walk and go to multiple places while you’re down there. It’s very family friendly which is what we’re all about.“I think we fit in really well with the other types of restaurants and businesses that are down there because there’s nothing like us out there,” Prince continued.
Prince also said that there will be certain things specific to the Arvada location, like smoked turkey legs that allow mobile eating, that tie into Olde Town’s many community events.
Prince said he could not yet detail all of the differences between the Tennyson and the Arvada locations, but noted that the different configuration of the kitchen in Arvada will “allow us to do different things than the way our Tennyson kitchen is set up.”
Post Oak isn’t the only barbecue spot coming to the Olde Town area, as national chain Mission BBQ recently announced they were moving into the old Ruby Tuesday’s located at 5525 Wadsworth Bypass.
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