A new kind of St. Patrick’s Day celebration is headed to downtown Dayton. On Tuesday, March 17, Level Up Productions and Channel 99.9 are teaming up to present St. Pat’s Silent Disco at The Dayton Arcade, bringing the popular headphone-based dance party format to the historic venue at 35 W. 4th Street.
Unlike a traditional concert or club night, a silent disco equips each attendee with wireless headphones that can tune into multiple music channels simultaneously broadcast by different DJs. The result is a room full of people dancing to entirely different songs — a surreal, festive experience that has become a hit at festivals and events nationwide.
This event will feature three color-coded channels. DJ KimL takes the green station with EDM, Sexbox spins throwback hits from the 70s, 80s, and 90s on the blue station, and John Chapel brings modern music and hip hop on the red station. Attendees are encouraged to dress in green for the holiday and switch freely between channels throughout the night.
Doors open at 8:00 PM with music starting at 8:30 PM. Advance tickets are $20, rising to $25 at the door. A group discount of 20% is available for parties of 10 purchasing in presale. Discounted presale pricing closes at midnight on March 16
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The evening also includes a free pre-party at Lucho from 6:00 to 8:00 PM featuring DJ Breeze EZ, giving attendees a chance to kick off the St. Patrick’s Day festivities early before heading to the main event.
The show is 21 and over. Tickets and additional details are available at daytonsilentdisco.com.
Get ready to kick off your day—or wind it down—with tacos, burritos, bowls, espresso, and mezcal! Lucho, a new fast-casual mezcal and espresso bar is now open in the Dayton Arcade.
Table will open it’s doors for brunch/lunch on Fri , Nov 22nd at 9am in the space that was formerly Est! Est! Est! in the Dayton Arcade. Located just inside the entrance on Fourth Street is a small bodega where you can pick up snacks or a bottle of wine from their selection of about 100 choices.
Carroll says he’s incredibly proud about bringing on Chef Keith Taylor to create their menu’s. Keith’s background in the Dayton food scene is vast, having learned his craft at L’Auberge, under legendary chef Dieter Krug until Krug retired, then he served as executive chef at Pacchia in the Oregon District, and at Country Club of the North in Beavercreek. In 2007 he opened his own restaurant Savona Restaurant and Wine Bar in Centerville until shutting it down in 2014 after a car ran into the building. He then joined his friend Rocco Catanzarite to open Tavolo Modern Italian in Sydney which shut down in Jan of 2024 when their lease expired. Most recently Taylor served as the Executive Chef at the Nutter Center.
Owner Shane Anderson is creating a caffeine inspired empire here in the Miami Valley. The original Ghostlight Coffee opened on Wayne Avenue in 2011. He then added a second shop, Ghostlight Midtown on Patterson in 2019. In 2021 Ghostlight Centerville Coffee Bar & Bagel Shop opened inside Dot’s Market. May of 2022 brought on Dough, located in the 2nd Street Market. In June of 2023 he opened a new production facility in the former space of Belmont Bakery. The vision he had for Gather
Evan Danielson, who many may remember from when he worked at the original Ghostlight coffee shop on Wayne Avenue a dozen or so years ago, then moved to Nashville, became a sommelier and now works in the wholesale beverage industry has bee tasked with creating the beverage program for Gather.The restaurant will feature a selection of both regular and zero-proof beer, wines and spirits, with an added focus on aperitifs, spritzes and digestifs. The wine menu will be mostly European wines which Evan says are more food friendly, with 8-10 whites and reds by the bottle, a few sparkling and roses as well as wines by the glass and will change often. Look forward to tasting experiences to come in the attached Dana L. Wiley Gallery space.
To help set the food menu, Shane hired Chef Jenn DiSanto, who ran her own Fresco catering business, cooking for many high end events in the community. “After the last few years, we’re all still learning how to Gather and I look forward to us setting the standard for how we can do that,” shared DiSanto.
So excited for this exciting new concept to open!
“Our goal in supporting the Hub was to foster collaboration, which is the key to success,” said David Melin, PNC regional president for Dayton. “The Hub Powered by PNC Bank will serve as a catalyst that will merge creative ideas from students, entrepreneurs, businesses and the community to create a stronger future for the region.”
To continue the week-long celebrating, ThinkTV will premiere the first of their three-part documentary – Dayton Arcade: Waking the Giant – at 9pm on Monday, November 16, on ThinkTV16. It will also be made available on the ThinkTV website and on the PBS Video App. The first part of this exclusive, local documentary gives a behind-the-scenes look at the beginning phases of the restoration of the Dayton Arcade with the remaining two-parts of the documentary expected to premiere later in the year of 2021.
