It is really a tropical oasis in the skies of Winston-Salem. Bar Piña – a rooftop bar off Trade Road that specializes in delicious fruity grownup beverages and cocktails – will celebrate its fifth anniversary this September.
“In summer time of 2017, we had an prospect to get around this storied area on the rooftop of the Well known Toastery,” suggests Beau Tate, who has worked in the foodstuff and beverage business for most of his adult daily life, like at Tate’s Craft Cocktails on Fourth Street, which he also owns. “We sublet from (Toastery) and opened in fall 2017.”
When he identified out the area – previously the residence of the District Rooftop Bar and Grill – was readily available, he began brainstorming for strategies about what form of bar would be preferred in the neighborhood.
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“My technique was to appear at the bones of the setting up and attempt to develop a thought all-around what would be perfectly-gained and very well-favored,” he suggests. He needed to come up with a little something folks couldn’t get in other places.
“With it remaining a rooftop bar, we required to put forth a a lot more tropical and light-weight atmosphere,” he suggests. “At the time, we were being the only rooftop bar it was absolutely an asset…. It was a inventive strategy that felt purely natural and felt compelling when persons wander in the doorway.”
Close friends rejoice at Bar Piña, April 30, 2022. (Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal)
The bar is two stories, with an indoor enclosed space and a walkway that sales opportunities up to the rooftop bar, which appears to be like out above Trade and Liberty streets.
Shoppers, he says, have reacted properly considering that Bar Piña opened, and they have quite a few regulars.
“We see a huge range of people today walk through the doors, and folks use the house in distinctive ways,” he states. “For the duration of the afternoon, it truly is type of much more laid-back, with a joyful-hour vibe in right here, and it turns into a fairly whole-on social gathering vibe later in the weekend on evenings.
“1 matter which is dependable is folks seriously love our cocktails, regardless of whether it can be one of the a lot of ones we make from scratch, or the more rapidly-services types like the frozen cocktails and cocktails on draft.”
One of the most preferred beverages, he suggests, is the frozen Miami Vice, a 50/50 mix of Piña colada and strawberry daiquiri. “We make all the things from scratch, so even with the strawberries, we’re working with true strawberries and placing them as a result of a juice extractor. The citrus we’re juicing by hand, and utilizing superior quality rums, so we go as a result of pretty a little bit of it.”
A further well known drink is the Rum Runner, the recipe of which Tate offered to us.
“It really is an straightforward sufficient a person to make at dwelling,” he claims. “You can get every little thing in a grocery retail outlet, you you should not need to have a bunch of specific equipment for it, and it can be excellent to make a pitcher of it to provide it up at a social gathering, as well.”
In the five years they’ve been open up, Tate says he’s noticed an boost in downtown foot site visitors on his aspect of Trade Road.
“When we initial opened, there have been evenings when you could search down toward Solitary Brothers and Silver Moon and see foot targeted traffic down there, but it just was not happening up right here,” he claims. “And as time has gone on, I have observed far more and extra momentum coming this way. Ramkat Demonstrates, Earls and a ton of things that’s taking place earlier us, we come to feel like we are thoroughly involved in downtown foot site visitors.
“It truly is been truly rewarding to check out it expand.”
