Hospitality & Tourism  January 24, 2020

The Rib House restaurant in Longmont closed

A sign advertising The Rib House restaurant space in Longmont for lease hung above the door Friday. Lucas High/BizWest.
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LONGMONT — Longmont’s popular Kansas City-style barbecue restaurant The Rib House appears to have closed abruptly this week.

The doors of the barbecue joint were locked Friday during business hours, and a sign above the front door advertised that the Prospect neighborhood restaurant space is available for rent. The Rib House’s phone line is no longer in service, and emails to the restaurant were not returned. As of Friday afternoon, there was no reference to the closure on The Rib House website or social-media feeds.

Restaurateur Tracy Webb launched The Rib House in 2001 and opened a second location in Boulder in 2009. The Boulder restaurant closed in 2015.

If The Rib House has indeed closed permanently, it would represent the second Prospect restaurant to shutter in the last three months. 2 Dog Diner closed in November. 

LONGMONT — Longmont’s popular Kansas City-style barbecue restaurant The Rib House appears to have closed abruptly this week.

The doors of the barbecue joint were locked Friday during business hours, and a sign above the front door advertised that the Prospect neighborhood restaurant space is available for rent. The Rib House’s phone line is no longer in service, and emails to the restaurant were not returned. As of Friday afternoon, there was no reference to the closure on The Rib House website or social-media feeds.

Restaurateur Tracy Webb launched The Rib House in 2001 and opened…

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Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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