The building was built by local chefs Paul Gelose and Tony Clinco, who ran The Powderhouse, across the alley, to house a barbecue.  Fat Alley opened in June 1995. Gelose left a few years later to become a personal chef for Oprah Winfrey and Fat Alley was sold to Robbie O’Dell, who moved the barbecue to the base of Lift 8 and renamed it Oak in 2011.

Before the building went residential, it briefly housed Flavor Telluride. I’m sure I’ve got some of this wrong, so please help me out here.