From The Boston Globe:
A hipster dive bar comes to light in Asheville, N.C.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — When you arrive at this cinderblock bar in a gentrifying neighborhood still populated with low-rent car repair shops, vacant lots, and dive bars, you get why an owner of The Admiral never intended it to be a destination restaurant.
A dive bar is more what co-owner Jonathan Robinson had in mind. The Lancaster, S.C., native wanted a comfortable, relaxing pub like the ones he visited in England. Those were a cross-generational scene. Touring the US, stopping in dive bars, and playing in a punk rock band generated more ideas.
“There wasn’t a dedicated rock ’n’ roll — I don’t want to use the word, hipster, too many times — but you know, good-jukebox, no-television kind of joint in Asheville,” he says. In 2007, he and Drew Wallace rehabbed an urban strip club and decided it was time for “good original food in an unassuming atmosphere,” says Robinson.
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