DG Afterhours: The Colfax Prowl #1

Every now and then the dinnergirls have a night where after dinner it just ain't quite time to go home, Thursday was one of those nights!

While heading out of the CityGrille we decided it just wasn't quite time to go home yet so we jay-walked our little butts across Colfax and found ourselves in a cozy booth at the Red Room
(320 E Colfax) where the majority of us decided what we needed was more vodka.

Rhonda and I both ordered the Key Lime Pie Martini...freakin' delicious. Sweet with a tinge of sour and quite creamy, but I think the that kind of foo-foo really needs a edge of sugar on the rim of the glass.

(Real Quick: I like my martinis freakin' ice cold. I really have never met anyone that doesn't. I like my vodka after it has beaten the edges off some ice cubes...maybe that is not how they are supposed to be made but that's how I like them. Every vodka martini I was served this Thursday was not "Siberia" cold, if you know what I mean...call me crazy, but vodka should be "freezing"!!!)

Meanwhile...back at the Red Room...this was after 9pm on a Thursday night and they were not busy at all...but they were slow, slow slow. I think there may have been only one wait gal and my guess is that she was new cause she didn't seem too familiar with what was available and we must have waited for 10 or 15 minutes before our drinks arrived. Needless to say, we decided that it really was not our night to sit and drink expensive drinks, so we departed and headed east down the 'Fax for more casual, less swank...and man, that's just what we found at the Satellite Bar (308 E. Colfax).

Welcome to Punk Rock Happy Hour...this place was exactly the kind of establishment that makes Colfax great. Cheap beer (Man, if you are into that kind of thing...their freakin' canned beer selection is GD unbelievable), reasonably-priced shots, games and a loud stereo.

Jared, the cute bartender that poured our prospective poisons was friendly, attentive and super fun. The music blaring out of the speakers, for one split second, made me feel like, "holy crap, they are so gonna take away my fake ID!" Plus, not only was there a pool table, pinball and video games, but, please, there was a shuffle board table, that, seriously, if I put my hand on it, the sand was probably warm.

The girls settled on a couple of drafts, some slow-sipping shots and a water (that Caroline, so smart!!!) and plopped our butts down at the end of the bar. A few minutes later, Rhonda decided shots were needed and asked Jared if he knew how to make a Butter Baby. It's one of my favorites but being the driver for the evening I declined, which made me a little sad when they arrived because they were unlike any Butter Baby shots I've ever seen! Instead of blending all the ingredients, Jared made them so the heavier cream was sitting atop the clear liquid...they were pur-dy!!!

And that was all she wrote.

We finished our drinks and paid the tab, left our fella with a hefty tip and made our way out to Colfax to hail Lara a cab...which, in all sincerity, I would say was the most fun of the evening!
With that said and wrote, I'm going for this...give me a dive bar over the "it" place any day, cause for this gal, my money was on Jared and his ability to seriously obliterate some ice with The Grey Goose and make me one happy girl, with extra olives to boot!
xo