Olde Town Arvada’s longtime watering hole, the Grandview Tavern & Grill, is back with a new boss in the kitchen and behind the bar: chef-owner Jeremy Wolgamott. He quietly unlocked the doors this week, rolling out a Southern-leaning menu built around family-style small plates and a $20 hot-plate lunch special. To make things official, the tavern is throwing a grand-reopening crawfish boil on Saturday, April 18.
As reported by Westword, Wolgamott has taken over the Grandview, which has held down the same Olde Town corner since 2004, and quietly introduced his version of the neighborhood staple last week. According to the outlet, the April 18 celebration will feature an all-you-can-eat crawfish boil priced at $30, with roughly 150 pounds of crawfish coming in from Louisiana for the day. Wolgamott kept the Grandview name but reworked the interior to highlight historic brick and tin details while steering the menu toward Southern comfort.
What’s on the menu
According to The Grandview Tavern, the midday hot-plate special runs until 3 p.m. for $20 and lets diners pick a protein such as fried rainbow trout, smoked chicken with Alabama-style white barbecue sauce, or a pickled shrimp salad. Those can be paired with sides like potato salad, coleslaw, hushpuppies and cornbread. Dinner shifts into family-style mode, with shareable small plates and a gumbo built on a super-dark roux that trades the usual rice for potato salad. On the drinks side, the bar program splits the difference between Louisiana staples and classic cocktails, so a Hurricane can land on the same table as a Manhattan or Old Fashioned.
Chef’s background and approach
Wolgamott left his executive-chef post at Bistro Vendôme in 2024 to zero in on a Southern-focused project, testing the waters with Argot pop-ups at Create inside Stanley Marketplace. “I want to show that there’s another side to Southern food that’s more vegetable-centric,” he told Westword. His résumé includes kitchen time in New Orleans at spots like High Hat Cafe and Coquette, along with a front-of-house stint learning hospitality with the Frasca group’s Osteria Alberico.
Olde Town roots
The Grandview sits inside the historic Barth Building in Olde Town, a late-19th-century structure that has served as a neighborhood gathering spot for decades, according to Olde Town Arvada. The latest renovation keeps the tavern’s original bones intact, including exposed brick and tin ceilings, while shifting the food and service toward shareable Southern plates. Wolgamott describes the refresh as an evolution of the neighborhood tavern rather than a hard reset.
Hours, menus and reservation details are listed on The Grandview Tavern. The kitchen is open for lunch and dinner, with the hot-plate special running until 3 p.m., and a happy hour set to debut in the coming weeks. The bar is leaning beer-forward with classic cocktails in the mix, designed to play nicely with Wolgamott’s Southern dishes as the revamped program settles into its Olde Town groove. For information on the April 18 crawfish boil, including pricing and availability, the restaurant’s site is the place to check.
