“It is at all times been a dream of mine to open a bar,” says Andrew Harris, the proprietor of Rock N Lobster Roll, which began as a meals truck and moved into Zeppelin Station final September. Whereas Rock N Lobster’s time on the RiNo meals corridor was short-lived, earlier than it moved out Harris linked along with his new enterprise associate, Zeppelin bar supervisor Alisha Taylor, who has been bartending in cities throughout the nation since she was nineteen.

“We came upon we have been very a lot alike so far as type, music, so we turned associates fairly shortly,” Taylor says.

Now, the 2 are on the point of open their first bar mission as homeowners, which they describe as an “underworld speakeasy” known as the Satan’s Drink. They’re aiming to open in mid-August at 3330 Mariposa Road, under the 25-room Kasa Comma lodge in LoHi. “I am tremendous excited. That is what I’ve at all times wished to do,” Taylor notes.

The deal with was beforehand residence to the Comma Cafe, however the proprietor of that idea “wished out actually, actually unhealthy,” Harris says, so issues moved shortly after he first seemed on the house in late June. In only a month, he and Taylor have reworked the place with darkish, moody vibes, pink lighting and devilish design touches. “If this satan was within the underworld and had a spot to drink, this may be it,” Harris provides.

The theme is one which “does not exist an excessive amount of in our metropolis,” Harris notes. “I am excited to be opening an area Alisha and I are each actually keen about, from the music to the decor. Our motto is, ‘The Satan’s Drink, all are welcome.’ It is a spot to come back be your self.”

Harris describes himself as “a steel head, lined in tattoos. Typically I really feel misplaced,” he provides. “I wish to take pleasure in good cocktails, and I would like folks which may really feel misplaced to have a cultured place they’ll go to.”

Taylor, who’s designing the smoke and fire-inspired cocktail program, was instantly on board with the idea. “I imply, I bought married on Halloween,” she says.

Company can count on “Vegas present drinks with extraordinary garnishes on them,” Harris says, with names like Succubus in a Pink Gown, Coronary heart of Darkness and All Black Every part. “It is excessive.”

“We wish it to be a really visible expertise for our visitors,” Taylor explains. “So it isn’t solely good cocktails, however enjoyable for folks watching the method, too.” There may even be beers from Ratio and Bruz on draft, plus a pure wine program. The homeowners have plans so as to add happy-hour specials as nicely.

The meals menu consists of on-theme canapes like deviled eggs and steak tartare (dubbed Hannibal’s snack), together with caviar served with potato chips and bottomless truffle popcorn. The Rock N Lobster Roll truck will pop up on the bar weekly, too. That enterprise is “removed from gone,” Harris notes. “It is simply altering.”

When it makes its debut, the Satan’s Drink will probably be open from 5 p.m. to midnight Sunday via Thursday and 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday. From 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. every day, one other enterprise will function out of the house: Procession Espresso, which was Readers’ Alternative for Greatest New Coffeehouse within the Better of Denver 2023.

Procession was began by longtime associates Joshua Bosarge and Stephen Ashley as a cart in early 2022; final November it moved into Zeppelin Station, the place it’ll proceed to function. “The chance will get us nearer to that finish of objective having our personal bric-and-mortar,” Bosarge says.

It should additionally give the Procession group an opportunity to develop its choices, including choices like espresso cocktails, pastries and grab-and-go meals objects. But it surely does not plan to develop its minimalist espresso menu; in reality, minimalism is a core perception of the Procession model, influencing all the things from its design to its product. “We’re strictly no decaf,” Bosarge notes, and the store solely provides complete or oat milk and carries its housemade syrups in simply two flavors, vanilla and chocolate. Whereas it does add specialty drinks “right here and there,” he notes, it isn’t the type of place the place you may discover a lengthy checklist of choices.

Procession will certainly have its personal identification on the Mariposa house. “Our ideas couldn’t be extra completely different,” Bosarge says. At night time, he notes, the Satan’s Drink “will be capable to add sure components to make it theirs, then we’ll begin recent within the morning with a clear slate.”

Finally, Procession’s objective is to not solely transfer into an area that’s “100% ours,” however to develop into different cities throughout the nation within the subsequent decade. “We’re attempting to construct Procession as not solely actually good espresso,” Bosarge concludes, “however a model.”