Overlook Lodge inspired by ‘The Shining’

Jacob Trevino loves movies. Just as much, he loves craft cocktails. As a bartender he has worked at Japp’s and Myrtle’s Punch House and created the cocktail menu at Salazar. He’s combined his two passions in Gorilla Cinema, a pop-up movie theater that pairs classic movies with drinks and food.

He’s working on a permanent home for Gorilla Cinema. In the meantime, he and backer Otto Baum are opening a bar in Pleasant Ridge inspired by the movie “The Shining.”

It’s to be called The Overlook Lodge, and will take as its theme not so much the horror aspects of the famous Stanley Kubrick movie, but the look of the mountain lodge that is its setting.

“Fans will notice some specific references to the movie,” he said. “But this will be a place where everyone can feel comfortable.”

The basic idea is a ’70s throwback rustic lodge, with lots of wood, retro wallpaper and decor that creates a sense of refuge. There will be a hearth big enough to hold a table or two. (No knotty pine or elk heads, though, promises Trevino.) There will be 76 seats in the bar, which is being designed by Work Architecture and Design of Louisville.

The location, 6830 Montgomery Road, was for years The Pleasant Hour and more recently was Bentley’s. Trevino is hoping to open over Halloween weekend.

The drinks will be “rustic” craft cocktails, taking inspiration from simple flavors from nature.

“We’ll use bold but familiar flavors, like fresh fruit and herbs, Mexican spices, not so much some exotic amaro from Italy,” said Trevino. “They’ll be craft cocktails that don’t necessarily require a history lesson.”

He plans to have live bluegrass and country on the weekends. “It’s not a big place, so it will be a very intimate setting for music,” said Trevino.

There’s no kitchen, but they’ll serve exotic trail mixes and jerky for snacks to go with drinks.

A signature drink will be The Hatchet, with tequila, ginger, lime and a Spanish-spiced rim. The Writer’s Block will be coffee-based, and there will be a series of drinks like tequila paired with a pineapple tomatilla sangrita: “twin” drinks that reference one of the scarier aspects of the bar’s inspirational movie.