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title: Wireless Restaurants?
date: 2005-08-08T00:54:21Z
modified: 2005-08-08T00:54:21Z
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  - Travel
timestamp: 2005-08-08T00:54:21Z
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  - Travel
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It’s become rather commonplace over the past few years to find coffee shops and cafes that serve up some sort of wireless – free or paid – alongside their more usual fare. I wouldn’t quite put it in the “surprised by its absence” category, at least not nationwide, but it’s not hard to find it. The coffee shop’s close relative the restaurant and/or bar, however, seems to be much slower to catch on. I’ve run into a precious few of those establishments that have available wifi, unless it’s a bleed over from somewhere nearby. This is, I suspect, because eating at a restaurant is regarded as a less solitary endeavour than grabbing a coffee, but I think there’s plenty of opportunity for such businesses to monetize the working lunch and/or quick bite to eat on the way home from work crowds.

Citysearch doesn’t list many potential wifi enabled venues [here in Denver](http://denver.citysearch.com/roundup/40211), but one they missed as [recommended by Raible](http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd?entry=free_wireless_good_beer) proved to be a good find today. The Handlebar & Grill does indeed have good food (Southwest salad was very good) and excellent beer (solid selection of microbrews). I guess it’s time to start campaigning on this point to my local establishment, the [Wazee Supper Club](http://www.wazeesupperclub.com/).

It’s not that I have anything against coffee and wifi, it’s just that I personally prefer beer and wifi 😉