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Let’s find out about Wells Tavern…again

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A year before Wells Tavern opened in downtown Maryville, co-owner Alice Bassler walked the Let’s Be Blount hosts through the 1887 jewelry store she was turning into a Scottish pub. She talked about the steel it took to carry a rooftop bar, a menu built around fish and chips and Cullen skink, and why the concept fits a town settled by Scots.

Wells Tavern Brings First Scottish Pub, Rooftop Bar to Downtown

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Alice Basler has always trusted her instincts. The Maryville real estate professional once closed on a house the same day she saw it. So when she drove past a vacant building at 114 E. Broadway one evening, called a friend to get inside, and walked out 20 minutes later ready to make an offer, nobody […]