One year after its shock closure, a former Nottingham nightclub has reopened as a new city centre hangout.
101 Bar is the latest venue to try its luck at the St James's Street premises which has previously been home to nightspots Pieces, the Cookie Club and Retro Rooms.
The latter opened its doors back in 2016 following a £10,000 re-launch but sadly the venue barely lasted two years, closing last June amid talk of a mini refurbishment which never came to be and instead went on the market.
Former owner Vance Bramhall opened the first version of the Cookie Club, in Pelham Street, back in 1990, in the former gentleman’s members-only Pelham Club.
The two-floor nightclub – now the blues club Tilt – had a capacity of just 130. Its smoke machine was notorious.
After ten years in Pelham Street, they moved the Cookie Club to its current and last in St James’s Street.
In spring 2016 it underwent a £10,000 relaunch in which it was re-branded as the Retro Rooms.
The black sticky asphalt floors were replaced with swanky wooden floorboards, the cinema-like reception had cosy arm chairs and the dance floor became home to booths decked out in funky retro fabrics.
There was an emphasis on retro cocktails and Mapperley based artist Beefy’s Caricatures was commissioned to do drawings of some iconic 90s figures from the pop world.
It re-opened at the start of May with a blue and white banner covering the Retro Rooms sign and a fresh coat of paint on the outside brickwork.
101 Bar is open Wednesdays, 8.30pm-11.30pm, Fridays, 9pm-4am and Saturdays, 9pm-4am.
It joins Icon: Bar and Lounge as one of the newest bars to open in St James's Street.
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