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Chef/Owner Justin Cucci has announced the reopening of downtown Denver’s acclaimed restaurant, bar, and music venue, Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox. Two years laying in wait, Ophelia’s can once again provide a unique dining and entertainment experience while adhering to ongoing health and safety recommendations. Restaurant, bar service, and live performances are scheduled to resume late spring. After two years of imposed live music celibacy, O’s is ready to rock hard and DTF !! (Down To Funk).
“Ophelia’s is one of Denver’s great gathering places. Its dynamic spirit—with friends enjoying great food, drink, and live music amid its boudoir-style decor—has been sorely missed. We’re excited to open our doors again for exceptional evenings out.” -Chef/owner Justin Cucci
Like the other five restaurants in Cucci’s acclaimed Edible Beats family, Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox honors the historical use of its space. Its 1890s-era Victorian brownstone, the Airedale Building, once housed a brothel and peep show; Ophelia’s flaunts its sultry origins in a playful style that also celebrates sexuality. The design aesthetic for Ophelia’s interior is inspired by vintage finds collected by Cucci over time, from the stage’s sex show booths and a backdrop festooned with 500 transistor radios, to the bars’ classic pinball machine tops and 400 Jager bottles. The décor pays homage to the building’s history and evokes an atmosphere of indulgence.
The ‘gastrobrothel’ offers fresh, interesting new takes on shared plates, flatbreads, skillets, and other pub fare, and reflects Cucci’s commitment to vegetable-forward healthful dishes, global flavors, and sustainability practices. The bar features bright handcrafted cocktails with local ingredients, bottles from around the world, and a 24-tap draft line of all-Colorado beers.
Ophelia’s sunken performance stage (the “Electric Soapbox”) hosts live groove-centric music, comedy sets, and DJ-led dance parties in a swanky Moroccan speakeasy décor. Shows can be enjoyed from all areas of the 8000-square-foot venue.There have been an array of notable performers in the past including Parliament-Funkadelic, Black Crows, and De La Soul, and more. Notably, Aron Magner from the Disco Biscuits is set to make his solo debut on tomorrow, April 7th at Ophelia’s. Tickets are available here.
Stay-tuned for this year’s line-up.
About Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox
Ophelia’s restaurant, bar, and live music venue—launched in 2015---knows how to throw down. This swank Ballpark gem serves up gastrobrothel fare paired with fresh kinks on classic cocktails and neo-old-school hospitality. The building, a Victorian brownstone on the National Register of Historic Places, was a brothel, sex shop, and peep show before becoming Ophelia’s, and now flaunts its sultry beginnings in a style both cheeky and sex positive. Ophelia’s is a boudoir-chic historical remix and Denver’s sexiest spot to indulge.
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About Justin Cucci
Chef/owner of Edible Beats restaurant group, Justin Cucci is constantly striving to create “craveable” culinary music in one-of-a-kind, innovative spaces. A pioneer in farm-to-table dining, his family of six Denver restaurants including Root Down, Linger, El Five, Vital Root, Root Down DIA, and Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox offer culinary excellence with a remix of local, seasonal and sustainable vegetable-forward cuisine. Raised in New York in a family of restaurateurs, Cucci transforms unlikely spaces including a gas station, a former brothel, and a mortuary into welcoming, contemporary eateries. An avowed music freak who named his first restaurant in the Colorado capital after the Beastie Boys album Root Down, Cucci has an ear for combining the languages of music and food, most notably at the newly renovated and reopened live music venue/gastropub Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox. He is also the author of The Edible Beat cookbook featuring 60 delicious recipes, and has another cookbook in the works.
Justin adeptly blends the rhythms of food and music with a backbeat of design and hospitality, creating a harmonious language completely unique to Edible Beats.
About Edible Beats
Edible Beats was born from a single idea: The creation of a vibrant neighborhood restaurant inDenver, starting in late 2008. In the span of a decade, Edible Beats has grown into six thriving, nationally recognized and award-winning restaurants known for thoughtful, vegetable-forward and sustainably sourced menus.
All of the Edible Beats restaurants—Linger, Vital Root, El Five, Root Down, Root Down DIA (at Denver International Airport), and Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox---share a commonality: taking inspiration from the history and location of their original buildings and mixing in design elements from Owner Justin Cucci’s reclaimed and mid-mod collections, creating interior spaces like nothing guests have seen before. Edible Beats is a collection of enticing ingredients—food-based, groove-friendly, and guest driven. Cucci is also the author of 2019’s The Edible Beat cookbook.
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