This place is hot! Celebrate the Satire's grand re-opening starting at 5 p.m. today!
Joey Mestas , Shannon Hollingsworth and Alex Barakos stand under the photo of the late, legendary Pete Contos.Any seasoned barfly will tell you that drinking is what you make of it, especially on Colfax. That’s why it can be devastating when your favorite joint changes direction, changes hands or otherwise loses its soul.
That won’t be the first thing regulars notice, though. That honor goes to the ornate black-and-red paint job that snakes to and through the former dining area.will love that its design takes inspiration from the Satire’s original wallpaper, which Barakos found after taking sledgehammer to drywall.
Even if it does, the star of the show will forever and always be the glowing “Plates are hot…have a nice time” sign visible from just about every bar seat, just next to the revamped kitchen. It’s a not-so-subtle nod to the Satire’s food runner and veritable jack of all trades Joey Mestas, who in his fifty years at the joint has uttered that very phrase thousands of times as something of a Denver legend in his own right. Barakos loves the sign. “It’s a little hint at the history of things.
Sit at the bar, gaze up and squint your eyes. You might see very faint lines of shimmering paint that represent Barakos’s attempt to bring back the Satire’s famed glittered ceilings. It didn’t work. “I’ll try that differently once we have some money coming in,” he notes.
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