The Crunkleton
Venue Brief
Elizabeth cocktail bar and wood-fire grill with a towering spirits wall and a deep vintage whiskey list, drawing date-night couples and serious sippers.
Venue Details
- Vibe
- Date NightChic/LuxuryUpbeat
- Age guide
- 25-45
- Dress code
- Smart Casual
- Cuisine
- AmericanArgentinian
- Demographic
- LocalsYoung ProfessionalsCouples
- Music genre
- Lounge/Chill House
- Price
- $$$$
- Open season
- Year-round
- Clientele
- LocalsAmerican
- Offerings
- Table ServiceBrunch
- Open times
- Mon 5 – 10 PMTue 5 – 10 PMWed 5 – 10 PMThu 5 – 10 PM BestFri 5 – 11 PM BusySat 11 AM – 3:30 PM, 5 – 11 PM BusySun 11 AM – 3:30 PM, 5 – 10 PM
- Vibe score
- 8.6 / 10
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About The Crunkleton
A towering wall of bottles, complete with library ladders, runs the length of the bar under wrought-iron chandeliers, and the spirits list behind it stretches to 21 pages, deep enough that one guest recently poured a whiskey from his birth year 58 years back. The Chapel Hill-born bar pairs that collection with a serious kitchen built around an Argentinian-style fire grill; the wagyu flat iron and duck-fat potatoes are the plates reviewers keep naming. Bartenders are praised for conversation as much as craft, and the room reads dark and moody at night despite the exposed brick. Dinner runs from five every evening, until eleven on Friday and Saturday, with a weekend brunch sitting from eleven to half past three. Expect cocktail-bar prices alongside steakhouse mains, 4.6 stars from more than a thousand Google reviews, and a hunt for street parking on East 7th.
