Fall in Golden: Enjoy Happy Hour Overlooking Clear Creek

Two Golden restaurants, the Bridgewater Grill and Grappa Mediterranean Bistro, have wonderful outdoor bar and dining patios overlooking scenic Clear Creek, which flows through our historic downtown. Outdoors or indoors, these are two of the best places in town to enjoy an afternoon or evening.

The Bridgewater Grill at the Golden Hotel has kicked off a new happy hour this month, with a different feature every night. Happy hour runs from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and all day Sunday.

Mexicali Mondays (half off Coronas and Margaritas), 2 for 1 Tuesdays, and Flip Night Wednesdays (flip for the chance to get your drink free) lead off the week. Then comes $5 You-Call-Its Thursdays, Ladies' Night Fridays (with $4 Absolut specials), and Wine Down Saturdays (discounted bottle wine). Bloody Mary Sundays feature $3 well and $4 Absolut Bloody Marys, along with $2 drafts all day long.

Grappa Mediterranean Bistro, just across Washington Avenue, offers a happy hour tapas menu from 3 to 5 p.m. daily. Mini antipasto, fried calimari, caprese salad, mini crab cakes, and buffalo burger sliders are only a few of the 13 dishes on the tapas menu.

A nice way to spend a late afternoon and early evening is to stop in at Grappa for a tapas meal, then walk across the street to the Bridgewater for a post-dinner drink. Both patios are still open, and our September weather is forecast to continue to be nice.

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Annette