There is no better place to be during the St. Patrick’s Day festivities than downtown Lexington! Whether you are running in the Shamrock Shuffle or headed to the parade, come and join us at The Mane for our Top O’ The Morning Brunch! The Mane is located on the 15th floor of the Chase Bank building, so you will have a great view overlooking the city. Parking is included at the attached Chase Bank building garage, provided there are spots available. We will have a traditional Irish buffet with a few twists of our own! The bar will be open – we will have some speciality cocktails and of course green beer! Grab your green accessories and come as festive as you wish!

Join us for THE MANE EVENT on August 24 – the first in a series of community pop-up events at The Mane on Main on the 15th floor of the Chase Bank Building.

This inaugural MANE EVENT will pay tribute to the iconic New Orleans House and feature delicious New Orleans cuisine prepared by Chefs Janey Thompson from Dupree Catering + Events and Jeremy Ashby from Azur Restaurant. Get tickets for you and your friends NOW before they run out and join us for a night of great food, live jazz, specialty cocktails and a beautiful, panoramic view of Lexington.

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We are obsessed with this video we received from Colin Merritt Wedding Films of our Grand Opening Party! Thanks to his amazing videography skills, we are finally able to show what this beautiful venue looks like filled with amazing guests. Check it out!

“The space looks completely different than it did on day one,” said Heather Martin, the venue coordinator of The Mane on Main which is run by Dupree Catering + Events.

“The goal was to develop a space that is open and inviting so we can work with clients to make their visions come to life.”

“Walls were torn down to maximize the space. And we warmed things up with a beautiful bar, a fresh, neutral palette and a feel that is both urban and yet still distinctly Lexington. The leather-stained concrete floors perfectly compliment the stone accent walls.”

Located on the 15th floor, the panoramic skyline view of the city is unlike any other venue in Lexington. “Our goal is to finally combine our catering and its amazing 30+ year reputation with a beautiful downtown venue,” Dupree owner Tom Evans said. “Whether it’s wedding receptions, birthday and anniversary celebrations, corporate luncheons and dinners, cocktail parties, non-profit galas or business meetings, we want The Mane on Main to be a top choice for people who want an exceptional and memorable experience.”

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The Mane on Main is a private event space located at 201 East Main Street, on the 15th floor of the Chase Bank building in downtown Lexington. The 12,500-square-foot space was once the Lafayette Club, a private lunch and dinner club. The window-lined walls boast a breathtaking 360-degree view of the beautiful Lexington skyline.  The space has been architecturally designed into several separate rooms that can be used for a variety of functions.

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by Tim Knittel

From the 15th floor of Chase Tower, Tom Evans, general manager and co-owner of Dupree Catering and Events, surveys the hustle and bustle of downtown Lexington. Behind him, a construction crew is equally hustling to complete the city’s newest — and highest — event venue, The Mane on Main.

Located in the former Lafayette Club space, The Mane on Main features rustic-chic décor with a refined, contemporary flair — not unlike the vibe of Lexington itself, which the design is meant to evoke. The space includes the Lexington Room, which can be used for meetings and presentations, as a bridal suite and for more intimate events; as well as the much larger East Side room, which is anchored by a rock-faced bar and can be configured for sit-down dinners, cocktail receptions, buffets or for nearly any purpose a party planner might need. There’s also a separate lounge area and audio-visual equipment to support live music, presentations, slide shows, live auctions and more.

“We can customize the space to any group that may come in,” Evans said.

Every room, including the 3,500-square-foot kitchen, features floor-to-ceiling windows that frame a panoramic view of downtown Lexington and beyond.

The venue’s kitchen is as large as Dupree Catering’s entire current facility on Delaware Avenue, Evans said. The need for a larger kitchen initially prompted the move, but when the opportunity arose to also acquire and build out a unique event space tied to the catering company, Evans and his partners, including Jeremy Ashby of the Azur Food Group, were quick to realize the potential benefits.

“We’ve been an off-premise caterer for 30 years, and catering chefs are often behind the scenes,” said Evans, who, along with his partners, purchased Dupree Catering from founder Harriet Dupree Bradley in 2014 and merged it with Azur Catering to form Dupree Catering and Events.

With The Mane on Main, Evans said the catering company can not only better showcase the talents of Executive Chef Jane Thompson and her culinary team in a more front-and-center fashion, but also enjoy a “home field” advantage when it comes to hosting and servicing events at the venue. The size of the venue — The Mane on Main can host up to 400 people for seated events, or as many as 500 in a cocktail setting — will also allow the company to accommodate larger events that might otherwise locate at one of the area’s hotels.

“We can capture a piece of the business that we weren’t getting before,” Evans said.

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Dupree Catering opening venue in former Lafayette Club space
BY JANET PATTON

Dupree Catering, which is co-owned by Azur chef Jeremy Ashby, Tom Evans and their business partners, is opening an event space on the 15th floor of the Chase Bank building on Main Street.

The new venue will be called The Mane on Main and will host events including wine-pairing dinners and holiday parties, to be billed as “The Mane Events,” Evans said.

The venue, to open in mid-October, might be able to handle 300 to 500 people if the full space is used, Evans said. The first events already are booked, he said.

Dupree Catering’s catering kitchen will move in December from its building on Delaware Avenue, which is for sale.

The 12,500-square-foot space in the Chase Bank building once was the Lafayette Club, a private lunch and dinner club, and more recently had been a nightclub and a bar.

The new space will be configured into several separate rooms that can be used for a variety of functions, Evans said. One room will be set up as a conference room for as many as 60 people that will convert to a “bridal suite” for brides to use for changing clothes before or after a reception.

The U-shaped room has another area with a built-in bar, which could hold about 150 people, Evans said.

The north side of the room will be lounge area with furniture as a foyer but can be used for event space, too, he said.

The west side is probably the largest, Evans said, and it could handle probably 200 people.

The venue also will have attached covered parking in the garage next door, he said.

Janet Patton: 859-231-3264, @janetpattonhl