They're up for Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar and Best U.S. Bar Mentor, respectively.
She and Hedges were told to keep the news under wraps until the public announcement the next day."I am so bad at keeping secrets," Wright admits."I just had to stay at home. It was a tortured experience, but with a big payout when we were able to share it with our staff."
The duo opened Yacht Club at 3701 Williams Street, next door to Brasserie Brixton, last December. They'd previously run an iteration of the bar inside the Source, but it closed in 2019. In the time between, they took on several other projects, including some Yacht Club teaser pop-ups, but they stayed focused on getting a new, permanent spot. And now that effort is being recognized on a national scale.
And she's feeling warm about the Tales of the Cocktail awards ceremony in New Orleans on July 28."We're going as a staff, we're counting down the days," she says.Yacht Club isn't the only Denver finalist this year. Sean Kenyon, who won Best American Bartender of the Year at the awards in 2014 and whose Williams & Graham nabbed Best American Bar of the Year in 2015 , is a finalist this year in the Best U.S. Bar Mentor category.
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