Inside Off The Clock, Elizabethtown's New Rooftop Bar

Key Takeaways

• Off The Clock is going in on the second floor of The Assembly, above the Social Food Hall
• The concept: elevated cocktails, curated bourbon and small bites, with a small kitchen on site
• Owners are Cameron Davis and Todd, who bought the building years ago
• There is a rooftop outdoor space that holds roughly 50 people
• The entrance is not the Social Food Hall stairs — it is a separate outside entrance
• It has not opened yet; the target is this month

Summary

Nate Bryan took Business Buzz out of the studio this week and did the whole segment live from inside Off The Clock, the new elevated cocktail and curated bourbon spot going in on the second floor of The Assembly in downtown Elizabethtown, above the Social Food Hall. Owners Cameron Davis and Todd gave him the run of the place before the doors open.

It matters because this is a piece of downtown most people have walked past without knowing it existed. The rooftop in particular has been sitting above a parking area that plenty of Hardin County residents use every week.

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Rachel set it up by noting Nate was not where he usually is. He was standing in a bar that has not opened, holding a phone.

"Nate is live at Off The Clock," he said, calling it the newest and hippest spot "that they allowed me to invade."

The concept is straightforward and, for downtown Elizabethtown, a little new: elevated cocktails, curated bourbon, small bites. There is a small kitchen, so food is part of the plan rather than an afterthought. It sits on the second floor of The Assembly.

Nate has history with the building. "I remember I came up here years ago with Cameron and Todd bought this place," he said, "but obviously looks quite different." Cameron Davis was working behind him during the segment and, as Nate put it, did not want to say hi but did smile.

The most useful thing in the segment was the practical detail about how you actually get in, because it is not what you would assume. You do not use the stairs by the Social Food Hall. You go around outside, where the owners have built a separate entrance. Nate mentioned Phil has video of it, and described it as a genuinely fun entrance rather than a back door.

Then he went up. The rooftop is the part of the tour that will surprise people: a full outdoor space with chairs, tables and lighting already in place, holding somewhere around 50 people. Nate made the observation that lands hardest for anyone who parks downtown regularly. It is something you have seen all the time when you park there without ever recognising what it was until you are standing on it.

He also flagged the stairs that pop out next to the food hall, the ones with the sign most people have looked straight past.

Worth saying plainly: Off The Clock has not opened. The target is this month, and the business confirmed its own details publicly on Facebook the morning of the show. Follow their page for an opening date rather than turning up this weekend.

One more thing worth noting. This was Nate's first live on-location report for Hardin Local, done on a phone, on a roof, in the middle of an August afternoon, with the Wi-Fi holding by a thread. It is a different kind of segment than the show usually runs, and it worked.