![]() Challenges getting the space into shape continued into Wednesday night’s preview event as plumbing problems forced an early end to the party. In the meantime, you may have seen a few staff meetings and interview sessions on the sidewalk in front of the business as construction was underway inside. He had notions of a pre-Pride debut but the project missed the mark by a country mile. Holcomb lives with his wife and five-year-old son a few blocks from his new creation - the first bar he has opened on his own. Behind the bar hangs a large painting of the old South created by the father of one of the joint’s owners. Staff is dressed in their Sunday best. A row of authentic church pews lines the southern wall of the Southern bar. It’s not overly theme-y and will be less so after some of the church lady hats currently hanging on the wall slowly disappear. Re-Settle Design, also behind the pub look at Capitol Cider, has created a space that feels, indeed, like a small house of worship tucked into - an on warm nights when the roll-up front can be lifted, opening onto - Broadway. “You’re offering your testimony, your presence - there is kind of like a revelation standpoint,” Holcomb said about the Witness theme when we talked to him earlier this year. Thursday night, barring any flood of biblical proportions, Witness is set to make its official public debut on Broadway bringing Capitol Hill’s craft cocktail culture to its main strip.ĬHS first reported on longtime Hill barman Holcomb’s plans for a “new Southern” cocktail bar in May as work first began to transform a short-lived fish and chips joint at 410 Broadway E into a church-inspired house of spirits. There’s a certain way to make a proper mint julep. The secret, Gregg Holcomb says, is to slap the mint. ![]()
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