BACON & BOURBON? What's the buzz-buzz on BLOODHOUND?

Maybe you've caught wind of it somewhere: a whiff of home-cured bacon; a snort of top-shelf bourbon, the scent of sawdust, or brain-deadening paint fumes. Or perhaps it was a wisp of high-stress pheromones - the massively positive, deliriously awake new owners Matt and Jana Poirier, the thirty-or-so excitable new staff, the bustling crew getting the first-class stage ready - whatever it is, it is important to remember that it all began with a dream of THE WORLD'S BEST BACON, LETTUCE, AND TOMATO SANDWICH - and now - just like in everyone's favorite love-story ROSEMARY'S BABY when Rosemary wakes up and screams This isn't just a dream, IT'S REALLY HAPPENING! - it's really happening!

Auburn looks to be getting a brand new top-shelf restaurant & premiere music club, and this time the buzz is warranted; we predict the landing of a real, grownup, new hipster-ground zero for Auburn, Alabama - with strong local talent, national musical visitations, fabulous and inspiring bacon-and-bourbon inflected American Cuisine (courtesy of the visionary chef Chad Mueller, formerly of Waverly's YELLOW HAMMER) - a cool space for local (and national, maybe even international) artistic expression - all in one spacious, artfully envisioned, antler-pronged, scotch & bourbon-infused locale - and it's about TIME.

The food will be inspired classic American, comforting but upscale (with locally sourced ingredients whenever possible: think meatloaf, wild-game sausage, the tenderest ribeye,home-made corndogs), and the music will be cool, local, Alabamian-to-national talent. The ambience warm, the beverages, top-shelf-liquor to moonshine-influenced (but don't forget the mint juleps, or PBR!), and the sound ? - the best in the tri-state area! Sweet threads encouraged, but you'll feel comfortable no matter what you wear, so just bring your bad, beautiful, hungry & thirsty self, along with everyone who's anyone (and in the eyes of the lord, here in ALABAMA, of course, that means everyone).

Mark your calenders for soft as well as grand openings: March
17th, first all-day (lunch menu - with green-tomato Bloody-Marys), and March 19th for full-menu opening. March 29th-30th = grand-part-ay & opening of the music-club with performances by John Paul Keith, and more (more precise opening info and musical dates to follow). So praise the lord & pass the bacon (bourbon), and then get on up, get on down to Auburn's newest and finest scene: BLOODHOUND.