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Innovative Cocktails. Craft & Small Batch Liquors. Prohibition-Style Bar. by Scott Homewood
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ave you heard this one before? Two classy-looking guys dressed in business casual attire meet at a new
cleverly concealed prohibition styled bar in the back of a well-known shopping center on Park Road in the Montford area of Charlotte. One, a tall bald gentleman, takes a sip of a perfectly aged whiskey, one of a couple hundred expertly curated whiskeys, scotches and bourbons in this bar. After the sip, the man looks at his older, impeccably-dressed best friend (who is sipping a flavorful, refreshing cocktail) and says “what happens when you take a former touring musician who owned a successful recording studio and later got into the wine business and put him with someone
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who worked in the service industry and became a chef before spending time with a local alternative rock band and later becoming an award-winning mixologist?” The two men, Conrad Hunter and Stefan Heubner, look at each other and share a knowing laugh… Rest assured this exchange never happened, but nevertheless, if you are lucky enough to meet the two owners of dotdotdot you will note an easy rapport, the kind where one finishes the other’s sentences and they have their own common jokes. That testifies to their long friendship and the comfort level they have with each other. How Heubner and Hunter met is as interesting and multi-layered as one of the many aged Scotches they have on premises. Huebner has been immersed in the hospitality industry since the age of 16 working jobs located in the back of the house and eventually including time spent as a
