Name: Hank and Vollie
Start: 2026-11-06T17:30:00.000-05:00
End: 2026-11-06T17:30:00.000-05:00
Location: Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar

Friday happy hour at Battery Park Book Exchange hits different when there's live music. Hank and Vollie at 5:30 means you can catch the set, grab some wine, and still have your whole night ahead of you.

The patio opens up when weather allows and they keep blankets on hand for when it gets chilly, which matters since this spot books live sets Thursday through Sunday and seating is first come basis across two floors of couches and chairs. If you're rolling with your dog they're welcome, though kids under 10 need supervision and some nights skew 21+ on weekends.

Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar is a used and rare bookstore and champagne bar at 1 Page Avenue in the historic Grove Arcade in downtown Asheville. More than 10,000 books fill two floors, from Civil War and U.S. history to art and design, award-winning fiction, classics, first editions and signed copies. The bar pours champagne by the glass, bottle or flight, plus wine, beer and literary cocktails like the Great Gatsby, with cheese and charcuterie boards, paninis, salads and soups, and you can carry a drink while you browse. Thomas Wright opened the shop in 2009 and moved it to the Grove Arcade in 2011.

Downtown Asheville regulars meet friends here over a charcuterie board and a glass of bubbly, and book lovers lose an afternoon in the stacks upstairs.

Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar

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