Everything couples ask. Answered straight.

A bar has two jobs happening at once: the pour your guest sees, and everything behind it. Ice runs, restocks, pre-batching, glassware, breakdown. A solo bartender can only do one at a time, which means either the line stops or the bar degrades as the night goes on.

We staff a two-person minimum on every package except The Private Pour, so the bar your guests see at 10pm looks exactly like the one they saw at 5. Every detail. Every pour. Every time.

The One Night Pour, the Signature Experience, and The Private Pour all include beer, wine, and a full bar all night. What you are choosing between is the cocktail program on top of it: how custom the drinks get, from cocktails chosen off our menu to five drinks designed for your night alone. Mocktail Mayhem, a fully designed zero-proof cocktail program, is the one package with no alcohol at all.

They order whatever they like. Every cocktail package includes beer, wine, and a full mixed-drink bar, so the bourbon drinker, the beer drinker, and the "just a vodka soda" guest are all covered without you adding anything.

Yes. Mocktail Mayhem, a fully designed zero-proof cocktail program, is a full package of its own, not a bar with the alcohol removed. Recipes are built for your event on house syrups, cold pressed juice, and fresh garnish work, and every guest's first pour comes in real glass. With no alcohol, there is no banquet license to arrange, which makes it a fit for dry weddings, campuses, churches, hospitals, and daytime events.

You do, under a Virginia ABC banquet license for your event. We never sell alcohol. What we provide is a purchase plan built for your guest count and menu, so quantities land right and nothing is over-bought. On The One Night Pour, every mixer, juice, syrup, citrus, garnish, and all the bar ice are included. On The Private Pour and on Mocktail Mayhem, a fully designed zero-proof cocktail program, we source the bar materials and bill them at cost, with no markup. On the Signature Experience, you supply them from our shopping list, or add The Concierge Package and we source them for you, billed at cost.

Yes. Private events serving alcohol in Virginia require an ABC banquet license, and as the host, the application is yours to make. It is a straightforward online application through Virginia ABC, and it should be submitted well ahead of your event.

You will not do it alone. We walk every client through the application as part of planning, tell you exactly what to select, and make sure the license is in hand before your date.

Our intimate format, and the one exception to the two-bartender minimum, because the solo pour is the point: Anthony behind the bar, no line, no rush, the bar as part of the gathering rather than separate from it. Up to 20 guests, with three cocktails from our menu plus beer, wine, and a full bar, and a real glass for every cocktail. A Custom Cocktail can take the place of any of the three, each with its mirror mocktail. See the full experience.

Every package includes non-alcoholic options. The One Night Pour, every Concierge Package cocktail, and every Private Pour Custom Cocktail come with Mirror mocktails: zero-proof cocktails built with the same fresh ingredients and the same care as their spirited counterparts. And for an event with no alcohol at all, there is Mocktail Mayhem, a fully designed zero-proof cocktail program. Nobody at your event gets handed a soda and an apology.

We are based in Central Virginia and serve the surrounding region, with North Carolina ABC documentation maintained for events across the state line. If you are unsure whether your venue is in range, ask. The answer is usually yes.

Fully. General liability and liquor liability, including an assault and battery amendment, with certificates of insurance naming your venue issued within 24 hours of a request. Every document is on our credentials page, available to download and verify.

Three hours before service begins. Coolers, ice, equipment, and every bottle are set before your first guest walks in, and full breakdown after the last pour is part of every package.

It depends on how your night ends, and there are two ways it can go.

When the bar and the venue close at the same time, the final alcoholic pour comes 30 minutes before close. That buffer is deliberate: it is a safety measure, so your guests have time to finish their drinks and settle before the drive home. Nobody walks from a last pour straight to their car.

When the bar is contracted to close before your venue does, we announce last call 15 minutes before the bar closes, pour through it, and then the bar is done while your night keeps going.

On every package. The question is only how custom the drinks get: chosen from our menu, every cocktail built on a house-made syrup with its own matching mocktail when you add The Concierge Package to the Signature Experience, a Custom Cocktail designed with you on The Private Pour, the full five-drink program on The One Night Pour, or zero-proof recipes built for your event with Mocktail Mayhem, a fully designed zero-proof cocktail program. The packages page walks the ladder.

Pricing is built from your guest count, service hours, and package. After your discovery call you receive a full pricing guide for your event, so every number you see is already specific to your night. Your event arrives paid in full, with no day-of administration.

We take a small number of events, so popular dates go early. If you have a date and a venue, that is enough to start the conversation.