Star Bar

What Star Bar does

Star Bar is a single-location bar and live music venue operating at 2137 Larimer Street in Denver's RiNo (River North) arts district, open seven days a week from 4pm to 2am. Its offering is built around three revenue streams: alcoholic beverage sales (marketed through a dedicated drink deals section), live music programming (including a regular Tuesday and Thursday karaoke block, recurring annual events such as the Rockies Opening Day Parking Lot Party and the St. Patrick's Parade Day Party, and a first-ever ticketed parking-lot concert scheduled for April 2026), and private event bookings for the main bar or back patio bar.

The core product is a physical neighborhood bar experience layered with entertainment programming. Distribution is direct-to-consumer at the venue, supplemented by an Instagram presence (@starbardenver), a website event calendar with Google Calendar integration, a newsletter signup, and third-party ticketing through Etix for special events. The technology footprint is minimal: a Squarespace-hosted website, social media, and standard email-based inquiry handling ([email protected]). There is no disclosed mobile app, API, or proprietary platform.

Commercially, Star Bar positions on affordable drink pricing and a local, community-oriented identity rooted in Denver rather than tourist traffic, leveraging civic-calendar partnerships (Colorado Rockies, National Western Stock Show) to drive event-day demand. No financials, ownership structure, management team, funding history, or customer concentration data is publicly disclosed in the available source material.

Name

Star Bar

Legal name

Star Bar

Website

https://thestarbardenver.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1959

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Star Bar is a single-location bar and live music venue in Denver's RiNo arts district, serving walk-in patrons through affordable beverage sales, regular karaoke, ticketed concerts via Etix, and private event bookings for its main and patio bars.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Bar and Live Music Venue

NAICS

Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (7224)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Live Music Bars & Venues (CRANACAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Neighborhood Bars & Taverns (CRANACAA)

Keywords

• Bar venue services
• Live music events
• Private event hosting
• Beverage sales
• Karaoke nights

Headquarters

HQ city

Denver

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Alcohol and beverage sales: Traditional bar revenue from selling alcoholic beverages including beer, cocktails, and other drinks. The bar offers drink deals as a promotional feature.
2. Ticket sales for live music events: Revenue from ticketed live music events, including special parking lot events and concert-style performances. Tickets are sold through third-party platforms like Etix.
3. Private event bookings: Revenue from booking private events including the main bar or back patio bar for parties and gatherings. Pricing is provided upon inquiry.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Star Bar operates a single-location neighborhood bar and live music venue at 2137 Larimer St. in Denver's RiNo arts district. Its core business is on-premises sale of alcoholic beverages supplemented by recurring live entertainment programming (local bands, twice-weekly karaoke nights, and ticketed parking-lot concerts) and bookable private event space for the main bar or back patio bar.

Product overview

Star Bar is a single-location bar and entertainment venue offering a unified experience centered around its core bar service, supplemented by promotional drink deals, regular live music programming (including karaoke and ticketed concerts), and private event booking. The venue operates Tuesday through Sunday from 4pm to late.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Star Bar Venue

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• The Ogden Theatre: Denver live music theater pairing bar/concession service with ticketed concerts, comparable in the dual-format bar-plus-ticketed-events model that Star Bar is pursuing with its parking lot programming.
• Globe Hall: Denver bar and live music venue combining bar service with ticketed and free live acts in a comparable small-to-mid capacity footprint, sharing the same target audience of local live music patrons.
• Bluebird Theater: Denver live music theater combining bar service with ticketed concerts, comparable to Star Bar in layering beverage revenue with live entertainment — though typically at a larger production scale.
• Lost Lake: Denver bar and music venue pairing full bar service with live performances and events, operating at a comparable neighborhood scale and targeting similar local nightlife audiences as Star Bar.
• Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom: Denver live music venue offering ticketed concerts alongside bar service, comparable in the dual bar-plus-ticketed-event model though at a larger venue scale than Star Bar.
• Herman's Hideaway: Denver neighborhood live music bar combining regular band bookings with bar service at a comparable capacity and price point, targeting the same local live music patron base as Star Bar.
• 3 Kings Tavern: Denver live music bar offering drink service alongside regular live band programming in a similar neighborhood-scale venue format directly comparable to Star Bar's live music + bar model.
• Larimer Lounge: Denver RiNo neighborhood live music bar and venue operating in the same River North corridor as Star Bar, with a comparable model of bar service, ticketed live acts, and late-night programming.

Broad incumbents

• AEG Presents: Large national concert promoter and venue operator that runs multiple Denver-area live music venues (including Bluebird and Ogden), representing the broader incumbent competitor set that anchors the Denver live music market in which Star Bar operates.

Emerging players

• Your Mom's House Denver: Denver bar and live entertainment venue offering bar service alongside live music and comedy programming, comparable to Star Bar's combined bar + live entertainment positioning in the local market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/starbardenver/?hl=en
• Xx.com/starbar_denver
• Facebookfacebook.com/StarBarDenver

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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