The 9,000-square-foot shop has hundreds of thousands of pieces in stock, spanning furniture to “little knickknacks,” says owner Jennifer Lane. The Jarrettsville design store sells both new and consignment home décor, and lots of it. Pairings also recently added a food truck catering option for more casual fare, such as tacos, sliders and fries. Kohler and his staff specialize in cocktail parties and special events like birthdays and anniversaries, serving hors d’oeuvres like brioche sandwiches, cream of crab shooters and cheese and charcuterie boards. The catering side is still going strong, too. The restaurant has since expanded, tripling its seating in 2012 and adding another 2,000 square feet last year, to make room for a local market, cafe and larger bar area. “It didn’t matter if we only had 25 seats - we were able to do these catering events, and because of that I think the catering over the past 14 years has really helped us be able to grow.” Ĭatering has always been an integral piece of the Pairings Bistro business - so much so that owner Jon Kohler delayed the restaurant’s grand opening by a day to make space on the calendar for a catered event.īack in 2009, when he first opened Pairings Bistro in Bel Air, the restaurant had room for just a couple dozen seats and was how “we could reach out to our guests in another way,” Kohler said. Lam/Baltimore Sun)Ģ105 Laurel Bush Rd., Suite 108, Bel Air. Jon Kohler, owner of Pairings Bistro, says catering has always been an integral piece of the Pairings Bistro business. This year, for the first time, children who explore the museum can do so wearing outer garments of the era - long hunting shirts for boys and vintage dresses for girls - hand-sewn by volunteers. The venue also hosts summer concerts, jousting tournaments and seasonal festivals. “We put history in a completely different light - and make it relevant.” “For many, history is ho-hum boring, just dates in a book, but we make it tangible,” said Betsy Keithley, president of Friends of Jerusalem Mill, which maintains the site. Here, men do leatherwork, women cook on open hearths, and visitors gape as they look back to the everyday lives of a bygone era. Living history interpreters dressed in period garb recreate the times and what they were like for residents of the early Quaker settlement, established before the American Revolution. Go back in time at the restored 18th and 19th century village, complete with a general store, smokehouse, blacksmith shop, springhouse and grist mill.
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