Get ready to strap down your spurs and dust off your best flannel shirt for the Cowboy Lounge. This rowdy country watering hole is like a confused little bastard child. Is it more of a cowboy bar or a rock'n'roll bar? Is it primarily consumed with drunken cowboys or drunken college students? Cowboy Lounge welcomes everyone from all walks of life. Some Wal-Mart shoppers, some Nordstrom shoppers. Even though there may be a lot of redneck cleavage hanging out of those Levi’s, no one can deny the power of a sexy Budweiser in the hand of a sexy cowboy. Or the power of cute college girls trying their hardest to line dance during the Electric Slide. No matter which way you lasso, you’ll always find something that’ll buck up your interest here.

The bar is set up with a giant dance floor in the middle with a huge projector screen highlighting rodeo clips and DJs ready and willing to play your requests. The bar itself is a huge horseshoe (coincidentally) with a full bar and a staff ready to get you blitzed. There are also a fair amount of booths lining the walls for you to rest your bowlegs. It is clear they have thought of everything a cowboy bar should be…down to the bathrooms. They might as well be outhouses for how they’re kept up. On most nights, not all the toilets work and there is water that leaks out on the floor. The toilets are definitely ones that girls aren’t comfortable to sit on, so they just hover over the seats trying to aim while they’re so drunk they can hardly stand. Now that we think about it, hopefully that is water on the floors.

The staff is there for the same reason the crowd is; to get drunk and have a hoedown. The DJs are masters at mixing it up between country and rock to where you don’t get bored quickly. It is definitely one hillbilly ruckus. There was even a time when someone asked for a “Jack & Coke and a cowboy hat” and the request was granted. They went and brought him a cowboy hat that he can borrow for the night.

So the next time you walk by the doors of The Cowboy Lounge and judge it for being a pure redneck bash, think again. There may be a fair share of drunken rednecks but also drunk Abercrombie & Fitch-wearin’ suburbanites. If you like Joan Jett but your friend digs Garth Brooks, we have found a way for you to meet each other in the middle—and to have a cowboy or two to bring home with you once the night is all said and done with.

Cowboy Lounge
1941 Market St.
Denver, CO 80202
303-226-1570

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