Chaplin’s Honky Tonk Restaurant & Saloon, a longtime country music venue, will close within two weeks while the owners prepare a martini bar and restaurant nearby.
It will be replaced at 763 E. Drinker St., Dunmore, by a third Mission Yoga studio.
Brandi’s Martini Bar & Restaurant is expected to open before Thanksgiving at 203 Chestnut St., said co-owner Brandi Kaspriskie. The building formerly housed Sal’s Restaurant. They are pivoting away from the country music theme.
“We decided to try something new, so we are venturing down the road,” Kaspriskie said. There will be no live music, at least at first, she said.
The future location of Brandi’s Martini Bar & Restaurant is seen on Chestnut Street in Dunmore on Tuesday, October 20, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
The Honky Tonk is a full-service restaurant that has offered live music, line dancing and karaoke since 2004. It was opened by Kaspriskie’s parents, Tony and the late Debbie Lupia, who already had a long history in the restaurant business.
Mission Yoga owner Kelly O’Brien hopes to open in December or January. All the yoga, Pilates and other offerings will be in “hot” rooms, heated to 97 degrees. The hot classes at her South Abington studio regularly sell out, she said.
She also has a Scranton location that uses room temperature spaces.
She chose the property for its ample parking and a Dunmore location accessible to college students, O’Brien said.
“I believe that the universe kind of provides for you what you need, when you need it, and I had been looking,” she said.