Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar has been serving seafood in LoDo since 1996, marking 30 years in the neighborhood. Sheila Lucero runs the kitchen as Chef & Culinary Director, working from a menu built around chilled raw bar selections — oysters, steelhead carpaccio, aburi scallop crudo — alongside heartier plates like the jumbo lump crab cake, blue crab cacio e pepe, and Mississippi catfish over Anson Mills grits with pot-likker sauce.
The hot side of the menu leans into dishes like made-to-order clam chowder, chargrilled oysters with creole butter, and a shrimp and crawfish gumbo built on smoked andouille. Cocktails include Jax originals like the 17th Street martini and a rotating list of infusions, poured alongside a deep draft beer list from Colorado breweries.
Regulars have kept coming back for decades, and the LoDo location has built a reputation as a downtown happy hour destination as much as a dinner spot, with fresh oysters and attentive service cited consistently by longtime guests.
The hot side of the menu leans into dishes like made-to-order clam chowder, chargrilled oysters with creole butter, and a shrimp and crawfish gumbo built on smoked andouille. Cocktails include Jax originals like the 17th Street martini and a rotating list of infusions, poured alongside a deep draft beer list from Colorado breweries.
Regulars have kept coming back for decades, and the LoDo location has built a reputation as a downtown happy hour destination as much as a dinner spot, with fresh oysters and attentive service cited consistently by longtime guests.