Upstairs Circus

The original location of a small Denver chain built on one idea: you sit at a long work table with a cocktail and make something. Leather cuffs, wood signs, jewelry, coasters. Projects run around thirty-five dollars, supplies and tutorial included, and the staff walk you through it. It works for a group that has run out of things to say to each other and for the visiting relative who does not want another brewery. Reserve, especially on a Saturday; walk-ins get whatever table is left. Closed Mondays.

Why go. The one downtown bar where nobody has to carry the conversation.

Book the slot, then budget more time than the listed session; almost every group runs long.