A cosmic vibe, baby

“There’s no place like this in Reno,” said Tim Miles, an information technology consultant, as he sipped a cosmopolitan one recent evening at Satellite. “I think that’s why it’s gotten popular so quickly.”

Miles is right. In most large cities, there’s at least one bar like Satellite, a place with clean, minimal lines, a lounge-y feel, and a stark-yet-inviting chic of the sort that first appeared in this country in the 1980s in SoHo. But Satellite — with its mojitos and sangria and sake cocktails — is a first for Reno, something Kleiderman and Judal took into account when they considered opening a bar.