Westerville just picked up a new hideout for people who like their cocktails with a side of secrecy. Rise Brands quietly opened No Soliciting, its members-only cocktail club, on South State Street this week, turning a renovated storefront into a speakeasy-style lounge that pulls the hush-hush bourbon-bar vibe out of downtown Columbus and Dublin and plants it firmly in the suburbs.
Inside, members and invited guests can expect dimly lit rooms, curated whiskey lists and tighter privacy than a typical bar, plus new space carved out for cigars, cards and light plates. It is the kind of place where lingering over a pour is the whole point, not something you squeeze in before last call…