The Ogden Stretch of Market Street Where Three Bars Find Their Own Weeknight Niche
October 1, 2026
October 1, 2026
As Yahoo reported, regulars still walk into 7211 Market Street and ask for the Sour Barn. That taproom closed under that name years ago, then ran for a stretch as Broomtail Brewing Pub & Arcade, and in May 2025 it reopened again as Pour Fella's Pub under three new owners, Cam Leonard, Preston Kidney and Skip McConnell. Leonard had managed the space before under its old ownership, and Kidney had tended bar there. The muscle memory of the previous name has outlasted the sign change, and Leonard has spent the time since reminding people that this is a regular neighborhood bar now, not the taproom-and-arcade hybrid Broomtail ran before its owners shifted their attention to production and distribution at their brewery down the road.
The rebrand itself isn't the interesting part. What's interesting is what the new owners did next. They looked at the two bars already operating within a few hundred feet of their front door and built their calendar around the gaps those two had left open.
Walk this stretch of Market Street in Ogden and you pass three businesses that didn't start out as a coordinated cluster. Seven Mile Post, at 7219 Market, has been the anchor, an established bar named for its rough distance from downtown Wilmington, running on 12 draft beers, more than 70 canned options, and food from an attached trailer called The Xtra Mile. Next door at 7227 Market sits The Bend, a bar, ice cream stand and restaurant built across a former residential lot that Randy Tarr converted after Fermental, the brewery that had occupied the site, relocated to the Cargo District in 2022. Tarr told Port City Daily at the time that the departure had left a real gap in the neighborhood. In the time since, he turned the property's three structures into The Parlour House, a converted 1970s home now serving as the bar, along with Grumpy's Soft Serve and Middle Sound Grille.
A few doors down sits Pour Fella's, the newest of the three, opening into a stretch that already had one established bar on one side and a build-out finishing on the other.
One example of how the schedules differ is Pour Fella's decision about food trucks. When Pour Fella's opened in May 2025, The Bend's onsite kitchen, Middle Sound Grille, was about to come online, and The Bend planned to stop scheduling food trucks once it had its own food service running. Pour Fella's picked up that slot on purpose, adding food trucks on Friday and Saturday nights specifically because the neighbor next door was stepping back from it. That isn't a business copying a competitor's draw. It's a business watching a competitor's draw disappear and moving into the space it left behind.
The schedules also differ across the rest of the week:
The weekday schedules tell only part of the story.
The split isn't complete, and it shouldn't be read as one. Friday and Saturday nights are genuinely contested between all three spots, each running its own live entertainment at the same time. That's the expected outcome on a strip where weekend demand is highest and the cost of not competing for it is real. The differentiation is sharpest on the slower weeknights, when a single bar can't fill a room on its own draw and instead needs a specific hook, trivia, bingo, or comedy, to bring people out on a Tuesday or a Wednesday. That's where the schedules differ most.
None of this happens apart from what's a five-minute drive away. Ogden Park, at 615 Ogden Park Drive, runs on a completely different schedule than the Market Street bar cluster, and the neighborhood's day is really split between the two. The park has an off-leash dog park with separate sections for big and small dogs, a one-mile paved walking loop with an exercise station, a pond with turtles, ducks and geese, a renovated skate park built with input from professional skaters, and fields for soccer, baseball, tennis and basketball.
In April 2026, the New Hanover County Parks Conservancy brought its annual Food Truck Rodeo back to Ogden Park, pairing food trucks and live music with a fundraiser for the All-Wheels Pump Track under construction at Northern Regional Park. That event runs on daylight hours and family attendance. The bars three-quarters of a mile away run on evenings and a mostly 21-and-up crowd for most of the week, with Pour Fella's carving out that narrow Saturday afternoon window when both clocks briefly overlap and kids are welcome in the building.
The upshot for anyone who already calls Ogden home is that the three-bar stretch on Market Street isn't evidence the neighborhood suddenly got busier. It's evidence that the three bars offer different programs on some weeknights, while their weekend entertainment overlaps. If one of them changes hands again, which has already happened once at 7211 Market, the next owner will have the schedules showing which nights are open and which ones are already spoken for.
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