The Dish - New martini bar in Wayesboro
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When was the last time you dressed up to go to Waynesboro? Well, here’s your chance. A “martini bar” has opened there called Martini Bar 309 at 309 West Main Street downtown. According to a story in the News Virginian, the place has a dress code for men— collared shirts and dress shoes— a selection of 63 martinis, and the owner has plans to hire 35 people. Of course there’s food, too.
An upstairs “members only” lounge sports a $1,000 annual membership fee. Hmm— wonder what’ll be going on up there?
Blame it on the goose, gotcha feelin loose
Gonna have to see it and try it to believe it!
“Absolut Hospitality in the Valley” might be Waynesboro’s new motto. But walking past those vodkas in my freezer to drive over Afton is probably not happening unless their food menu is outstanding. And $1,000 per year to go upstairs. LOL! For that you could get a descent bottle of single malt scotch to sip each month for a year and enjoy a beverage that actually has flavor and taste.
Waynesboro has always been hipper than Charlottesville. It’s called industrial chic.
Wait, 25 years old after 9 pm? What are they doing in there, driving rental cars?
where is Wayesboro?
You know I’m impressed if a Waynesboro joint is requiring shoes period. And I guess a shirt with collar is going to have sleeves as a given?
Interesting. Sounds like some lucky Secret Squirrel is going to have his $1,000 membership fee paid by the taxpayers so the city can get in there and see what’s going on upstairs! :)
Upstairs, Stanley said he plans to have an executive lounge for paid members.
The price tag: $1,000 a year.
“This is more for them to hold executive meetings and things,” he said.
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I can only hope that Hawes is planning to spring for the grand so that the Hook can have their staff meetings in that space.
The problem is Charlottesville has a bunch of do nothing council members who discourage new business… the stalling of the parkway, the hotel issue, the death of the bypass, the vacancy of MJH, they would rather sit on their butts and watch revenue and jobs go across the mountain or up north … Waynesboro will get an olive garden first!
OK, when people say that they want an Olive Garden, are they being sarcastic? It’s hard to tell.
One part of me hopes to God this is a sign of a good economy. The other side wonders if this might be the wrong time to charge a Grand for a secret room. Wish them great success though!!!!!
The real problem Rick is that the City Council spends too much time protecting failed business owners and developers, as well as County commuters, instead of on the city residents who actually work for living. When they start paying attention to their own residents and improving the quality of life, real businesses like Optronics and Inova that provide real jobs will have skilled employees in their backyard.They won’t be clogging up the roads into the city.
I don’t see the County building squat for roads, for city residents to go out to their neck of the woods or up north. They just clog up 29N, a State Highway, and make the entire state suffer for it.
The sooner the city stops catering to the tourist industry and the county, and encourages business to meet the needs of the community, the sooner good businesses will spring up, and the failures close.
“I don’t see the County building squat for roads”
unless you ignore the county’s portion of the meadow creek parkway, which ends at the city line as the city has dragged its feet on building its portion……
People are reading a little too much into a martini bar opening up in waynesboro, I think.
Waynesboro is slowly becoming a bedroom community for C-ville. There are probably 20-households in the Tree Street neighborhood alone who commute to C-ville to work daily. It’s only a 25-minute drive. It only makes sense the enmities would soon follow.
The Martini Bar joins the new Multiplex Theater along with the big box stores and chain restaurants which have located in the past few years.
Most of these residents purchase homes due to the lower prices in the Waynesboro real estate market and the accessibility to I-64 and I-81.
Plus, it’s a good, friendly place to live with low crime, low property taxes and good school system. We moved here in 2009, and simply love the neighborhood and the city.
If you’re looking to invest in the town, we could use additional restaurants and small businesses here.
Lastly, there are rumors of an ‘Olive Garden’ coming to the city, 2011-2012.
Meanwhile,
“unless you ignore the county’s portion of the meadow creek parkway, which ends at the city line as the city has dragged its feet on building its portion……”
Wow, that’s a lot of road for the County to build, considering the amount of growth it has done up 29N. It might have been a fair trade if the County had been willing to build the Meadowcreek Parkway as a separate road all the way to Ruckersville, so Charlottesville residents didn’t have to drive through the County’s mess around Forest Lakes, and the box store shopping mecca so everyone coming from Southside Virgina had to sit at endless stop lights.
The 29N cluster fluck at Rio and Hydraulic are the result of letting a bunch of self interested small business owners get involved in the decision making process for major traffic flows.
I’ll just keep working to keep that group of small business people from having much to say in my southern part of the county.
If this works I’ll look for investors for the Charlottesville Cattle Annie’s.
I would suggest doing a search on the sex offender database before you buy a house in Waynesboro.
Sex offenders? Let’s see… a quick search finds 71 sex offenders in Waynesboro and 138 sex offenders in Charlottesville. Know what you’re talking about before you take cheap shots (unless it’s a martini).
I agree that Cville is packed with sex offenders just like its sibling Waynesboro. But I live in the County where the ratio of residents to sex offenders is 1447 to 1. Waynesboro’s ratio is 708 to 1.
In other words, Waynesboro has twice as many sex offenders per resident as Albemarle County.
That is a thoroughly meaningless statistic. Any incorporated population center is going to have a similarly higher concentration of miscreants than a largely rural county. Waynesboro also has a higher concentration of police officers, nuns and orphans.
Psyche! Now we just need some enterprising individual to start a shuttle service. Starlight Express, are you listening?
Steven: Good luck making the drive to Cville in 25 minutes during the winter when you’re crossing Afton Mountain in the fog and ice.
In terms of the schools, check out greatschools.org which give Albemarle a 7 out of 10 ranking, as compared to Waynesboro City Schools (4), Cville (4), Augusts (5), Fluvanna (5) and Greene (4).
still confused: How is it a meaningless statistic? Would it be meaningless if I found statistics that say you are twice as likely to be murdered/raped/robbed in DC than you are in Fairfax VA? Would you say that you feel equally safe in both locales?
Cities tend to have more sex offenders than do rural areas. Thus a buyer who cares about such things will tend to buy a house that is geographically further away from a cluster of sex offenders.
still confused: I hope that Waynesboro does have more police officers per resident than Albemarle’s ratio. Somebody has to keep an eye on all those sex offenders living over the mountain.
If I can’t wear sneakers, I won’t be there
i don’t think the average wayneborian craves martinis - could be wrong.