# @denverwestword on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMa62CsJ0l5
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-22T18:45:52.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Denver Westword (@denverwestword) — https://gondola.cc/denverwestword

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Cap City Tavern is closing on July 27 after close to two decades in the shadow of City Hall in the Golden Triangle, and the sad news that Denver is losing another go-to bar even made Mayor Mike Johnston’s State of the City speech on July 21.

“My wife Courtney and I discovered one of our local favorites, Cap City, will be closing after 20 years because still not enough of their customers have returned post-COVID, and that’s not good enough,” he said midway into the speech. “I will promise you this: No one is more obsessively aware of the things that are broken in this city than I am, and no one is more relentlessly committed to fixing them. I notice every piece of trash, every construction project in front of a retail store, every unhoused person still looking for services, every restaurant just too empty for a Friday night.”

And Johnston no doubt noticed that in their announcement about the closure posted on Facebook July 19, the McTaggart family that owns Cap City took a swipe at the city, and warned that “the community of independently owned restaurants in Denver is literally going extinct.”

Stop by and raise a glass before this neighborhood bar closes on July 27.

✍️ Read the full story by Westword Editor Patricia Calhoun at westword.com or at the link in our bio.

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