The 8,000-sf restaurant, on two floors, opened at the corner of 15th and Larimer streets in the heart of Larimer Square, a collection of historic buildings at the edge of Lower Downtown. It seats about 230 people.
The restaurant/nightclub is the latest brainchild of the Carlson Restaurant Group. The Carlson chain also owns T.G.I. Fridays.
This is the seventh Samba Room in the chain. Others can be found in Florida, Texas and Illinois. So far, the other restaurants boast sales of more than $3 million each.
The food is influenced by Argentinean and Cuban cuisine with a touch of Asian. Dinner entrees range from $7 to $26.
Rolando Diaz, whose family escaped Castro in Cuba, created a 25-foot mural to highlight the restaurant. The piece, ''Cuba 1957'' features images of ironwork common to Cuban architecture, tobacco and sugar cane that dominated the economy, palm leaves, and an old man smoking a cigar.
The restaurant already is open for dinner and opens for lunch.
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