"The Denver Tech Center is known for having some of the best, highest volume and most expensive restaurants in Denver, between Del Frisco's, Shanahan's, Ocean Prime, Guard and Grace coming down," Sean Huggard told the Denver Post in August. "But those are steakhouses."
Huggard runs Blue Island Oyster Bar, and he is opening a Nantucket-style seafood restaurant near Belleview and Ulster. He describes the Tech Center's dining scene as a row of steakhouses. Put his project next to the other restaurants that have filed plans or signed leases around Greenwood Village since June, and they share a pattern. Each still serves expensive food, but three of the four put fish on ice where a steakhouse would put a dry-aged case. They also open in a fixed order, and the only one inside Greenwood Village city limits opens last.
The format the new places share
G&G Surf Club is Troy Guard's seafood spinoff of Guard and Grace. Westword toured it in September while saws were still running and described an 8,500-square-foot space with a wraparound bar and lounge, a raw bar, a sushi bar, an open kitchen, a private dining room, about 225 seats inside and two large patios. TAG Restaurant Group's announcement lists seafood-forward cooking next to prime steaks, wood-fired dishes and fresh pasta. So the steak is still on the menu, but the room is built around the raw bar.
The Coastal Service puts the raw bar right at the entrance. Huggard told the Denver Post the space will have three zones. Guests walk in to a raw bar with high-tops and booths. Sliding doors behind the bar open onto a covered four-season patio, and the last room is meant to feel like a dining room in a converted Nantucket house. The menu skips fried clams and fish and chips. It leans on East Coast fillets like black bass, tautog and hake, plus a broiled New England scallop with garlic butter, white wine and cracker crumbs, which Huggard calls his favorite thing to eat. The name plays on the postal service, since the group ships seafood in from both coasts seven days a week. "Fresh seafood is not inexpensive, right?" Huggard said. "But we don't have $120 steaks on our menu."
The Brinkerhoff started in Castle Rock in October 2025. It is a Mexico City-inspired Mexican steakhouse with sushi, served family-style around an open kitchen. Its website lists prime steaks next to sushi made with Hawaiian line-caught tuna and fish flown in daily, plus cocktails made with house barrel-aged tequila. The Castle Rock menu is priced in the Tech Center's upper tier.
Barcelona Wine Bar is the one without a raw bar. It is bringing the Spanish wine and tapas format it runs in RiNo next to its sister restaurant Corsica. The plans call for about 4,000 square feet inside, a 1,000-square-foot enclosed patio and another 1,000 square feet of open-air patio.
Covered and four-season patios show up again and again, at G&G, at The Coastal Service, and at Barcelona's enclosed patio. The Brinkerhoff plans a covered patio with folding glass walls. All four are building outdoor seating that can stay open past September.
Fall 2026 to late 2027, in order
None of these openings is confirmed. These are the targets as of early October 2026, from earliest to latest.
- G&G Surf Club, 8100 E. Union Ave., Penterra Plaza. When the lease was signed in June, Guard told the Denver Post he expected to open "by Nov. 1." Westword's September 16 report gave a later and looser window, "eyeing an October/November opening," and no date had been announced. The restaurant's site has a sign-up form for opening news but doesn't yet list hours or a final menu.
- The Coastal Service, On The Square, Belleview Avenue and Ulster Street. Huggard signed a 20-year lease on 4,000 square feet. In August he said he plans to open "early next year," which means early 2027.
- Barcelona Wine Bar, 8101 E. Belleview Ave., On The Square. Also targeting early 2027, with construction timing not yet announced.
- The Brinkerhoff, 5390 Greenwood Plaza Blvd., The Landmark. Greenwood Village City Council approved the site plan unanimously in mid-September 2026. The builder told council construction would take about 15 months. If work started right after approval, 15 months would put completion around the end of 2027. No opening date has been announced.
The two middle entries are part of the same project. On The Square is Shea Properties' redevelopment of the former Marina Square. Reporting puts it at 13 acres and more than $200 million, with 481 apartments in a seven-story residential building plus retail. Sweetgreen and Solidcore had committed to the project by October 2025, and Shea's project page forecasts the development opening in late 2026. That means the salad counter and fitness studio could open months before the two restaurants. Developing Denver files the project under Denver's Hampden South neighborhood. For a Greenwood Village resident, it is a short drive north on the Tech Center street grid, not a stop on the way home.
One restaurant has left the list. Westword reported on September 5 that Mama Kim's restaurant at 8745 E. Orchard Road had closed, while the Mama Kim's spa next to it stays open.
Why the Greenwood Village address comes last
The Brinkerhoff opens last because of the site. The applicant told council that Lot 7 at The Landmark had been vacant for 20 years. The family found it well before this year's approvals. "It was 2018 when we first found this site," BusinessDen quoted in July. "It's taken us a long time for one reason or another."
The council meeting record shows how old the planning behind the lot is. City staff based the traffic assumptions on a single-pad restaurant of about 10,000 square feet that was approved in the master development plan review back in 2007. The neighborhood's stormwater retention pond, directly south of the parcel, already serves the restaurant site and the larger development. The Landmark had a restaurant-sized spot reserved on paper for nearly two decades before an operator applied for it.
The building will take time too. The contractor described fencing the site and hauling off about six feet of overfill that had been dumped on the lot before construction can start. The approved project is about 9,800 square feet. It seats about 150 diners plus 20 at the bar. Guests can use a valet drop-off zone, 39 parking spaces on site and more than 40 in a garage. The exterior combines handcrafted limestone, reclaimed brick and Corten steel. A solar canopy is designed to supply about 15 percent of the restaurant's power, and trash goes in an enclosed, conditioned room inside the building instead of an outdoor dumpster.
The operators already run restaurants in the area. Mark and William Brinkerhoff's company, Brinkerhoff Hospitality, listed Savina's Mexican Kitchen in Denver and Castle Rock, Sierra in Lone Tree, and The Brinkerhoff and Bar Hummingbird in Castle Rock as of September 2025. Savina's is the former La Loma. When the family split its restaurants, Mark and William kept the downtown and Castle Rock locations and renamed them. The Parker, McGregor Square and Tech Center La Loma locations went to other family members. So the Tech Center will have a La Loma and a Brinkerhoff run by different branches of the same family.
What each opening adds to the area
Each restaurant fills a different gap. G&G Surf Club, if it hits its window, gives the area a large new seafood room with raw bar and sushi before the holidays, from a chef whose steakhouse already draws Tech Center diners. In early 2027, On The Square adds a seafood restaurant and a tapas bar to the Belleview and Ulster corner, each with patio space. Within Greenwood Village itself, the change comes last, when The Brinkerhoff opens on The Landmark lot that sat empty for 20 years.
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