The Vorshay’s Cocktail Lounge spot won’t stay vacant for long. A new business will open there on June 20.
Dreamers Cocktail Lounge is moving into the Vorshay’s space at 417 E. Douglas, which Steve and Natalie Peters ran from 2018 until they closed it in early May citing “increased costs and decreased sales.”
Alisha Gentry, a longtime local bartender who will serve as general manager at Dreamers, said she wasn’t ready yet to reveal the identity of Dreamers’ owner but did say it was his first time owning a bar.
The plan is to open a cocktail lounge that has a similar vibe to Vorshay’s: It’ll have craft cocktails and a full bar and will frequently hire live bands to perform music from many different genres.
“From the comments that we read when Vorshay’s put in their two weeks, people liked coming in and the atmosphere,” Gentry said. “We want the same thing, but we don’t want to be Vorshay’s 2.0. We want to be Dreamers.
Gentry said that she’s already assembled a staff, and the cocktail menu is being developed. Dreamers won’t serve food but will eventually add some bar snacks to the menu…