{"id":792,"date":"2025-07-23T21:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/?p=792"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:24:15","slug":"denver-coffee-shop-bringing-expanded-menu-to-the-former-d-bar-space-in-uptown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/denver-coffee-shop-bringing-expanded-menu-to-the-former-d-bar-space-in-uptown\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver coffee shop bringing expanded menu to the former D-Bar space in Uptown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five-and-a-half years later, Brenda Godfrey is making good on her vision.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a long time coming,\u201d said the co-owner of Frank & Roze.<\/p>\n

The former Starbucks executive opened the coffee shop\u2019s first location at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in 2019 and never intended for it to be a one-off. Earlier this year, she finally signed a 10-year lease for a second location in Uptown, aiming to open by the holidays.<\/p>\n

Frank & Roze will fill 4,100 square feet at the corner of Pennsylvania Street and 19th Avenue that was formerly home to D-Bar, a dessert cafe that\u00a0closed\u00a0nearly a year ago<\/a>. The space is on the ground floor of the One City Block apartment building.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe community in that neighborhood is fantastic. (People) live and work there all within two to three blocks,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s 100% about providing a place where they feel welcome, and the community there is the reason we chose it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The restaurant will use its bigger kitchen to expand the shop\u2019s menu of breakfast sandwiches, baked goods, sandwiches and salads.<\/p>\n

Local chef Tom Coohill, the owner of downtown French spot Coohills, is the man behind the menu. He has\u00a0worked\u00a0with Godfrey since Frank & Roze\u2019s opening, serving frittatas and specialty toast alongside the shop\u2019s brews at the original 2,500-square-foot shop.<\/p>\n

Frank & Roze currently serves wine and beer at that location, but Godfrey wants a full liquor license to go with Uptown\u2019s 18-seat bar.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll have a proper brunch full of Eggs Benedicts and Bloody Marys and all the mimosas you can imagine,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The space will likely be open a little later than the 5:30 p.m. close the first location has. Godfrey wants to get a happy hour crowd in there through the early evening while still having time to hold private events like the work parties and anniversaries that she has at the other spot.<\/p>\n

She said the design of the new location will lean toward higher-end \u201cvibey\u201d fabrics rather than the mid-century modern aesthetic the original place is known for. Plants will still be prominently featured, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need to be able to sit at the bar and be comfortable working on a laptop in the morning and also having a Manhattan and chatting with friends in the afternoon,\u201d she said of the space.<\/p>\n

At Starbucks, Godfrey was in a divisional management role on the development and real estate teams. With Frank & Roze, she aimed to build a caf\u00e9 that was scalable. But opening four months before the pandemic hit affected her ability to grow, she said. Dealing with a three-month shutdown, inflationary pressures and a rising Denver minimum wage, Godfrey wanted to make sure the first spot was air tight before opening a second.<\/p>\n