AVL Digital Nomads

🍸 Classy Cocktails: Rooftop Sips at Top of the Monk

📅 Thursday, Sept 10th
⏰ 6:30 to 8:30 PM
📍 Top of the Monk, 92 Patton Ave, Asheville

Summer is starting to wind down, so it seems like the perfect excuse to take Classy Cocktails upstairs, grab a great drink, enjoy a warm September evening on a rooftop, and hang out with some of our favorite people.

This time we're heading to Top of the Monk, downtown Asheville's oldest cocktail bar and one of those places that feels distinctly Asheville.

Tucked above the former Thirsty Monk (now Crowbar), Top of the Monk is an intimate cocktail lounge with a rooftop patio overlooking downtown and the Blue Ridge Mountains. And these folks take their cocktails seriously. They use fresh ingredients and make their own bitters, tinctures, infusions, syrups and shrubs in-house.

If whiskey is more your thing, you're in good hands there too. They have an impressive whiskey collection and bartenders who actually know what they're pouring.

And then there's the quirky little Top of the Monk tradition. Order a cocktail and you may receive a small key that unlocks one of their old post-office-box-style snack cubbies. You'll just have to come see what that's all about. 😉

What to Expect
🍸 Really good handcrafted cocktails
🥃 Plenty of options for the whiskey lovers
🌄 Rooftop views over downtown and toward the mountains
☀️ One more gorgeous summer evening outside
😂 Easy conversation, laughs and the usual Classy Cocktails crew
😊 New faces are always welcome

We're keeping this one simple. Good people. Good drinks. A rooftop. A late-summer evening. Nowhere else you need to be for a couple of hours.

Parking
There are several paid parking lots around Top of the Monk, including parking directly behind it. The parking structure behind it, however, is only $1 an hour, so you shouldn't have to sacrifice your cocktail budget just to park your car. 😉

Come quench your thirst as we squeeze one more rooftop Classy Cocktails evening out of the summer. See you at the Top! 🍸🌄

Location Change:
Disclaimer: In all efforts to keep this Meetup a safe space, we all agree to keep anything said within the group private and confidential.

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🍝 Asheville Foodie Supper Club: First Stop, Italia! 🇮🇹

Sunday, September 27 | 6:00 to 9:00 PM
Strada Italiano | 27 Broadway, Downtown Asheville

Limited to 12 people

I’ve been wanting to create something a little different for Asheville Digital Nomads, something smaller, more intimate, and centered around one of my very favorite ways to bring people together. Food. 😁

So, I’m officially launching the Asheville Foodie Supper Club, a monthly culinary adventure where a small group of us will gather around a table, explore Asheville’s ridiculously good food scene, and actually have time to get to know one another.

We’re kicking this thing off with Italian. 🇮🇹🍝🍷

Our first stop is Strada Italiano in downtown Asheville, a cozy Old World-style trattoria serving regional Italian cuisine inspired by both Northern and Southern Italy. Think house-made pasta, risotto, seafood, Italian classics, good wine, and the kind of food that makes you very happy you did not stay home and eat something responsible. 😆

Each month, we’ll choose a different foodie theme. Italian one month, Korean another, Thai, Indian, Mexican, burgers, pizza, seafood, Mediterranean, tapas, and whatever other interesting culinary rabbit holes we decide to wander down.

But the food is only half the idea. The real purpose of the Asheville Foodie Supper Club is to create a different kind of social experience.

Instead of standing around at a larger event having snippets of conversations with 20 different people, we’ll sit around one table with just 8 to 12 of us. We’ll eat. We’ll talk. We’ll laugh. We’ll hear each other’s stories. We’ll linger over dinner and hopefully turn some of those people we recognize from Meetup into people we actually know.

The intention of this event is to meet interesting people, discover really good food and local restaurants, and enjoy conversations that have enough time to go somewhere.

🍷 A Little Supper Club Fine Print

This event is intentionally limited to 12 people, and unlike some of our larger gatherings, this one requires an actual restaurant reservation.

So please only RSVP if you genuinely intend to come. Don’t grab one of the 12 seats as a “maybe.” If something changes, no problem, just update your RSVP as soon as possible so someone on the waitlist has a chance to join us.

Because when there are only 12 chairs at the table, every chair matters.

Strada also offers a nice range of gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan and dairy-free options, so our first Foodie adventure should have something for just about everyone.

Come hungry and ready to connect with some fun and friendly new humans over a yummy meal together.

Welcome to the Asheville Foodie Supper Club. First stop, Italy. 🇮🇹 🍝🍷🍽️