Dog-themed dive bar coming to 15th and Champa downtown

You can get a free beer at Chase Phillips’ upcoming bar. Just as long as you drink it out of a dog bowl.

Two Lazy Dogs, his canine-themed watering hole, will open in 2,500 square feet at 1531 Champa St. in the next few months, the first-time restaurant owner said. Phillips, who is an executive adviser to Mayor Mike Johnston, said the spot will provide a dive for a neighborhood that desperately needs one.

“I think that’s one of the things that’s really missing and people are looking for,” Phillips said of Upper Downtown. “It’ll be a modern take on your comfortable neighborhood dive bar.”

The menu will include burgers, an onion-topped hot dog and street tacos. Phillips, a Westminster native, will also use his father’s recipes for smoked wings, brisket and the like. His dad, who hails from Texas, used to run a Vietnamese barbecue joint in town in the early 2000s.

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