Downtown’s newest bar had its grand opening last weekend, offering its owners’ own twist on a cocktail lounge. The Dutch Light opened on the second floor of the Bailey South building at 450 N. Patterson Ave.
in Innovation Quarter — above Six Hundred°. The Dutch Light takes inspiration from gardens and greenhouses, and is the brainchild of partners Brian Summer and Daniel Hamm. This is their first bar, but Summer and Hamm are veteran event planners, and they continue to work in Summer’s family business, which owns Millstone Events in Winston-Salem and Board and Batten Events in Lexington.
Brian Summer (left) and Daniel Hamm, owners of The Dutch Light cocktail lounge in Innovation Quarter. “When we found this spot, the skylight really drew us in because it has that angled glass like in Dutch light greenhouses,” Hamm said of the space in Bailey South. They scrapped the venue plans when the pandemic began, but they began to think about a bar with the same theme.
“When we found this spot, the skylight really drew us in because it has that angled glass like in Dutch light greenhouses,” Hamm said of the space in Bailey South. People are also reading..
. You can enter from an outside spiral staircase built next to the Bailey South smokestack. Or from inside the building, which has an elevator.
The greenhouse theme is in evidence throughout the spacious 4,200-square-foot bar, which features dark green walls and plants scattered throughout. One wall has a green-and-whit.
