Bar serving alcohol to open soon in Ohio state Capitol building

Bar serving alcohol to open soon in Ohio state Capitol building

Associated Press

COLUMBUS

Ohio’s Capitol building will be a place for making laws and making drinks when it adds a bar that will sell beer, wine and liquor.

The Columbus Dispatch reports the Ohio Statehouse’s first full-service bar will open next month within an existing cafe on the building’s lower level in Columbus.

The Ohio agency that oversees the Statehouse says the bar will have flat-screen televisions and will be open to the public at certain times while also hosting special events and what are described as “private happy hours.”

But it won’t allow guns, despite a new Ohio law permitting some concealed weapons to be carried into bars and other places where alcohol is served. No firearms are permitted inside the Statehouse.