Denver Dive Bar Carioca Cafe Victim of Arson Fire

The century-old Carioca Cafe, better known as Bar Bar because of the redundant, glowing red sign over the door of 2060 Champa Street, has survived tough times. Over the past few years, it survived the pandemic shutdown that closed bars, survived a city crackdown on its liquor license, survived a burst pipe and an inaccurate report that it had closed for good, and survived being in the center of a host of homeless encampments, one of which even set up its own illegal bar…