It was fun…sometimes too much fun…while it lasted.
But in the next few weeks, the remaining walls of the Carioca Cafe — better known to lovers of dive bars everywhere as “Bar Bar,” winner of Westword‘s Best Dive Bar award in 2023 — will come tumbling down.
“I have mixed feelings,” says Rich Granville, the musician/booker/bartender who did so much to keep the place at 2060 Champa Street going. “I knew it wasn’t going to last forever…that’s why I did everything I did for the past seven years.”…