Lock and Key Whiskey Bar at 5110 Corporate Blvd. has closed, and the owner is seeking a new home for the business in the Capital City.
Owner Brandalyn Tabor announced via Facebook today that the whiskey bar—a purveyor of fine whiskeys and creative cocktails—“will be closed at our current location due to our desire to have our own building.”
Tabor tells Daily Report that the business is by no means going away for good. Instead, she plans to reopen the whiskey bar elsewhere under the same name.
“The goal is to keep the exact same vibe in a larger location with an outside area—at a lower overhead cost,” she says.
Tabor says Mid City is one location she’s eyeing, in part because the neighborhood is in close proximity for her clientele.
Tabor and Arthur Lauck, the bar’s co-founder, partnered with Glen Bynum and Bubba Phillips in 2013 to reopen and rebrand the former location of Glen’s on Corporate as Lock and Key Whiskey Bar.
The bar offered more than 240 different types of whiskey, and was a part of the Capital Region’s shift to whiskey as a favorite beverage. Earlier this year, Business Report chronicled the rise in whiskey sales locally and nationally, and noted that women like Tabor are helping to lead the movement. The number of female whiskey drinkers has grown 38% in the last six years, Tabor said previously.
To cater to the growing demographic of whiskey connoisseurs, Lock and Key offered monthly “Women and Whiskey” events, where the history and science of whiskey was discussed. Different flavors also were offered for tasting.
“They like the uniqueness, the nostalgia and the social media aspect of it,” Tabor told Business Report at the time. “Whiskey is all encompassing. And when we have women come to our Women and Whiskey events, they build friendships in a safe and social environment.”
On the bar’s Facebook page, Tabor indicates that the “Women and Whiskey” events will continue.
“Also my ladies, please follow Women and Whiskey LLC to see where we will be throughout the city, country, and world,” she wrote.
Read the full Business Report story on the rise of whiskey as a favorite beverage, and see an Entrepreneur feature on Tabor and Lauck, who is no longer involved with the business.
—Alexandria Burris
