New Downtown Cocktail Bar: Michael Martensen and Eddie “Lucky” Campbell Apply for Liquor Permit

Posted on September 16th, 2011 1:07pm by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Awards, Bars, Bring it!, cocktails, Contests, make mine a double, Merguez Sausage Hunt, Mixology is fancy for bartender

So the permit sign in the window at 1404 Main Street reads “The Garden Bar,” but that’s not the real name. However, the address is the site of the soon-to-open bar manned by mixologists Michael Martensen and Eddie “Lucky” Campbell. The dynamic duo have held the space vacated by Dr. Bell’s BBQ for some time, but it looks like things inside are ramping up. These guys know how to keep a secret. None of my snitches are snitching. However, I thought I heard somebody “say” the name of the joint will contain the name of a brown liquor. Oh, let’s name it. Free round of cocktails to the person who makes the best guess!

20 comments

  1. Im going to go with Southern Comfort

    @ 1:15 pm on September 16, 2011

  2. rye bar

    @ 1:54 pm on September 16, 2011

  3. whiskey-a-go-go

    @ 2:41 pm on September 16, 2011

  4. Risky Whiskey

    @ 2:48 pm on September 16, 2011

  5. Bourbon Street

    @ 2:48 pm on September 16, 2011

  6. Lucky Mart

    @ 2:58 pm on September 16, 2011

  7. makers… & some other words, possibly before and/or after.

    @ 3:46 pm on September 16, 2011

  8. Tea?

    @ 4:27 pm on September 16, 2011

  9. Not Southern Comfort. That’s on Ross.

    @ 4:38 pm on September 16, 2011

  10. Whiskey & Rye
    Sour Mash
    Mint Julep

    @ 5:44 pm on September 16, 2011

  11. This great. Love hearing all these names! Keep them coming.

    @ 5:45 pm on September 16, 2011

  12. Highballs
    Dirty Mother
    Side Car on Main
    Blotto’s Bar
    Brown Liquor
    The Yak
    Manhattan on Main
    Stinger’s

    Remember:
    When I drink brown liquor I go crazy quicker than a red fox on the run.

    @ 6:47 pm on September 16, 2011

  13. The Fernet Refuge

    @ 9:26 pm on September 16, 2011

  14. High and Rye

    @ 4:16 pm on September 17, 2011

  15. [...] “Lucky” Campbell and Michael Martensen broke ground on their new pre-Prohibition bar that they have finally dubbed “High and Rye”. The new bar is located at 1404 Main Street, and is [...]

    @ 4:19 pm on September 17, 2011

  16. On, rethink the urge to use a pun.

    @ 9:14 am on September 19, 2011

  17. Whiskey Lounge

    @ 4:23 pm on September 19, 2011

  18. Mustache Mash
    The Malt Shop
    George Dickel’s Trickles
    The Maker’s Mart
    Lucky Fizz

    @ 9:17 am on September 20, 2011

  19. Better not be Cocktails & Dreams . . . that one is mine!!!

    @ 12:50 pm on September 20, 2011

  20. [...] Restaurant, and TJ Lengnick of Whiskey Cake. Michael Martensen of Cedars Social and the forthcoming High and Rye mixed up cocktails. Lead chef for November’s event is Kent Rathbun of Abacus, Jasper’s, [...]

    @ 6:45 pm on September 23, 2011