There is a door in a Charlottesville, Virginia alley that looks like it leads absolutely nowhere, and it is one of the best doors in the entire state.
Push it open and you’ll find The Alley Light, a speakeasy-style restaurant and bar that has no interest in advertising itself and every reason to be proud of what it’s doing.
The door is the beginning of the story, so let’s spend a moment with it.
It’s wooden, warm in color, with an X brace across the front that gives it a barn-door quality that somehow works perfectly in the context of a brick alley in a Virginia college town…