Jax Fish House
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: (303) 444-1811
Fax: (303) 444-1007
- Price:
- $$
- Cross Street:
- Ninth Street
- Hours:
- Sun-Thu 4pm-10pm, Fri-Sat 4pm-11pm
Message from Jax Fish House
Come to Jax and get hooked!
- Happy Hour Everyday
- Fresh Seafood
- Raw Bar
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Editorial Review for Jax Fish House – by Citysearch Editors
In Short
Jax fills early with 30-somethings who can afford the meal or occasional groups of students out to splurge. Many hover around the bar sipping infused vodka martinis or the infamous spicy shrimp bloody mary. Art covers the narrow space's walls, and every red brick is scrawled with someone's name or philosophy. The seafood is the fresh, from the raw oyster bar to the filet mignon of tuna with scallion hash browns.
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User Reviews for Jax Fish House
03/15/2008 Posted by SeafoodConnoisseir
Growing up an hour from San Fran, seafood was part of my life. Not only was it available everywhere, but my mom was a scuba instructor, so we had fresh fish most of my childhood. Many of the best seafood restaurants were on Highway 1 along the coast, and pretty cheap at that, but I've also been to some of the best ones on the West Coast. In Denver, seafood is rare, so you look downtown to the nicer restaurants to find it. Among those at the top the list was Jax. In my twenties, when I needed to be somewhere cool to feel cool, this place would have impressed me, but now, I just want decent service and good food. Jax was loud and overcrowded. My party was sat down so close to two other tables, we actually touched elbows. I wouldn't mind if it was Lazio's in Eureka, or the Sandpiper, where the party sitting next to you was friendly. The food was priced like Kuletto's in SF. The portions were small, but overall pretty good. The atmosphere was somewhat hip, if a little smug, and that doesn't improve the experience. Fifteen minutes after ordering drinks, I finally went up to the bar where they were sitting and retrieved them myself.
Pros: Food was good, if a little skimpy
Cons: Expensive, overcrowded, staff is slow and smug
06/28/2007 Posted by neurogirl
I went to Jax on a Sunday afternoon for happy hour. The hostess told us to sit anywhere in the restaurant, but after a while a waitress rudely told us we were not allowed to sit there and should move to a side of the bar and a cocktail waitress would serve us. Ha! We sat for over ten minute while the bartenders gave us wierd looks, the cocktail waitress chatted with some men on the other side of the room and the waitress who made us move blatently ignored us. We weren't even given menus. It wasn't all that busy and there were plenty of staff members, so I have no idea why we were treated so rudely. When we got up to leave we only received more dirty looks from the staff. I can't comment on the food, but I won't be going back because of the horrible service.
Pros: Good happy hour prices
Cons: Horrible service
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