Amos' Southend is a concert room on S Tryon Street that books rock, country and alternative bills, tribute acts and emerging artists. It sells standing room and guaranteed mezzanine seating separately, and age limits change show to show. A restaurant called The Gin Mill operates on site and gives advance ticket holders a discount on food.
Bar Fly takes over the rooftop deck above Room Service at Camp North End on weekend nights, from the same founder. The landlord's page describes bold and playful decor, cocktails, bites, dancing and music, with a rotating schedule of events each weekend. The drinks list runs to cocktails, wine, sangria, beer and rotating slushies.
Bradshaw is the neighborhood-bar choice when you want a burger, wings or a game on TV. Its covered patio gives groups another place to sit. The weekly calendar includes trivia, music bingo, live-band karaoke and Friday music, with DJs on Saturdays. Later visits can be lively, so check the lineup if you are choosing between a conversation over dinner and a night of music.
A neighborhood pub on the Montford Drive strip, named for William Joel Braswell. It is the Charlotte home bar for Iowa Hawkeyes fans, and it makes its bar food in house. Trivia nights, live music and craft nights run through the week.
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Live music rooms, late bars and the blocks still going after the kitchens close, going by their own posted hours.
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Dot Dot Dot is a membership cocktail lounge. A membership is required to get in and it covers up to three guests per visit, with a dress code and a valid ID at the door. A limited number of door memberships are sold, but the bar tells people to buy online. It is one of the few Charlotte rooms posting a 1am close.
A pub hidden on the back side of the Park Road Shopping Center, open since 1996. Its own directions tell you to park out front and walk down the stairs to find it. It is known for a bacon cheeseburger, a championship veggie chili, twenty ounce pints and a whiskey list, and it serves until 2 in the morning four nights a week.
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