Pretentious Glass Celebrates Ten Years
For a business to survive a decade, a lot of things have to go right. The product or service has to be good; the right person or people have to be behind it, and a thousand...
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Hong’s Kitchen Opens at Pretentious Glass
It’s hard to know the best way to spin this story, which is really two great stories in one. The first narrative thread is that Vic Scott and Josh Coates, owners of Seoul Brothers in Marble...
Pretentious Glass Takes An Unexpected Journey: Television, Glasses and a Global Pandemic
The gallery at Pretentious Glass opened up within the last two weeks for the first time since mid-March 2020. For the time, they are open only Thursday through Saturday. Pretentious Glass and Pretentious Beer Company owner,...
Pretentious Beer Company Now Has Its Own . . .
Mmm, what would it be that a beer company might want of its very own? As it turns out, owner Matthew Cummings laid it out for me the first time we talked: First there was glass...
Pretentious Glass Company Shatters Sales Records
It was three years ago this month that Matthew Cummings brought his Pretentious Glass Company to the Old City at 133 South Central Street. He moved the business here from Louisville, Kentucky, and the glass studio...
A Completely Cool Urban Dinner Benefiting a Completely Cool Urban Farm
I’d always intended to make it to Beardsley Farm*. I heard it was close to downtown and I knew enough to know they do good things. But I didn’t really know exactly where to find it...
Pretentious Beer Company Opens this Weekend
It’s been a long time coming. Almost two years ago, Matthew Cummings detailed his ambitious plans for his Pretentious empire: First, he’d build a studio for his glass production. Ten months later, he accomplished that goal...