They are also behind Fuel & Iron, the Pueblo-inspired bar and restaurant that is set to open in the former home of Brass Tacks at 1526 Blake Street on April 28.Īfter visiting that space with Cytryn, Healy says she pitched the idea of putting a tiki bar in the mezzanine. Zach Cytryn and Nathan Stern are the Denver real estate agents who found the spot for Electric Cure. 'Eventually we wanted to, but we didn't have any plans or anything.' But then they ran across an ideal space in a haunted building.
'We weren't planning on opening a second one,' Healy admits. The Electric Cure quickly gained a reputation as an irreverent escape, leaning into one particularly vocal community member's fears about it being Satanic with such events as its recent Zombie Jesus 'Easter' Drag Show. The eclectic tiki bar with rotating themes and a commitment to keeping things weird is packed with odds and ends, most of which were collected second-hand by Healy herself. The two longtime industry vets opened their first solo venture, the Electric Cure, at 5350 West 25th Avenue in Edgewater last August. 'We're gonna give Denver the tiki bar it deserves.' 'It's a gay pirate ship meets Land of the Lost with phallic and bird undertones, is how I'm describing it,' says Lexi Healy of the fully immersive tiki bar she's working on with business partner Veronica Ramos.
