A good neighborhood bar that happens to pour 300 whiskeys.
It started in an old gas station on Hillsborough Street.
We opened in a 1930s filling station.
623 Hillsborough Street had been a gas station, then an auto shop, then nothing at all for eight years. Kevin Barrett and Drew Schenck took it over in 2016 and kept the bones: exposed brick, the old Esso sign, roll-up garage doors onto the patio, bench seats built out of junkyard cars, whiskey barrels for stools.
The whiskey runs deep.
Kevin’s line from the start was “a little bit of everything.” The whiskey runs deep, past 300 bottles, but there’s cold draft beer, proper cocktails, and wine too. A dram is a pour of whiskey. A draught is a pour of beer. The whole idea sits right there in the name.
Seven bars, none of them the same.
The first one sat between downtown, Glenwood, Boylan Heights, and The Village District. Close to all of it, part of none of it. We carried that in-between, neighborhood feel to every bar after. Charlotte doesn’t feel like Wilmington. Cary doesn’t feel like Durham. Good.
Your neighborhood bar, with a much better whiskey shelf.