L-R Chef Melissa Ortiz, bartender Brian Noonan and co-owner Jim Ritson at the Bamboo Club, tiki bar and restaurant in Long Beach on Thursday, May 30, 2019. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press ...

UPDATED: May 31, 2019 at 9:06 PM CDT Three Dots and a Dash, the craft Tiki cocktail bar in the Near North neighborhood, opens a rum nerd bar-within-a-bar called The Bamboo Room Thursday night.

Bamboo Lounge is a tiki bar owned by Anthony Stevens, owner of two other Winston-Salem bars: Vintage Sofa and Whiskey Dawgs.

He found a small bamboo tiki bar with stools on Facebook Marketplace for $175 and built everything around that. “The bar was the most expensive part,” he says.

The Bamboo Hut The Bamboo Hut opens daily at 5 p.m. on weekdays and 7 p.m on Saturdays (closed Sundays, except for this one, during the North Beach Italian Heritage parade).

Construction on the lounge was completed in about a month, with guidance from a renowned tiki-bar builder known as Bamboo Ben. “A lot of people have been peeping in,” Belshe said.

Many of the bar’s Tiki items and materials came from the now-defunct, California-based Oceanic Arts, which served as the world’s largest supplier of Tiki decor for 66 years before closing in 2021.