The buyer who purchased Raleigh diner Joe's Place this month plans to open Cherry Bomb, a restaurant and bar with a "Hot Rod/Rockabilly theme."
Cherry Bomb will offer "live music, pinup-model costumed servers and more than 50 craft beers on tap," according to a release from Kimball & Co., the broker who handled the sale of the property.
It will be open seven days a week for lunch and dinner and during late night. The site is at Dawson and Martin streets. The opening date is unknown.
Staff writer David Bracken
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Chef Tom Ferguson is looking for a space for Rise, a doughnut and biscuit restaurant. 
The downtown developer pays $1.5 million for two properties located across Hillsborough Street from Meredith College. Hatem is also renovating The Raleigh Times Bar, one of many downtown establishments his restaurant group owns. What to do? Find out with out free entertainment newsletters, delivered straight to your inbox!
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