Wedding DJ at The Remedy in Winston Salem, NC

The Space

Before it was a cafe, this building on Summit Street was a pharmacy, put up in 1928 in a Spanish-style that still marks it out on the block. The Remedy took over the space and describes itself as a pairing of a coffee house and a neighborhood pub, which shows in the menu as much as the room: flatbreads, quiches, pastries, charcuterie boards, and specialty waffles alongside boozy coffee drinks, wine, and craft beer.

Inside, the original character of the pharmacy building shows through, with a fireplace anchoring the main room and a bookshelf-lined feel that reads more like a living room than a restaurant. An upstairs loft adds a second indoor level, and the whole space sits in Winston-Salem’s West End neighborhood, right against Hanes Park, which is where the outdoor seating looks out.

Capacity & Layout

Seated and standing capacity are not published for this venue, so a couple planning around The Remedy should confirm numbers directly with the space rather than assume a size, and a planner will likely want to walk the rooms in person before setting a guest count. What is clear from the layout is that the venue works across three distinct zones: the main indoor room with its fireplace, the upstairs loft, and the outdoor seating facing Hanes Park.

That three-zone layout is well suited to a smaller, informal wedding or reception where guests naturally move between spaces over the course of an evening rather than sitting through a single seated program. A couple choosing The Remedy is choosing that flow, cafe by day and neighborhood bar by night, over a single fixed ballroom floor plan, which also means the room can turn over quickly between a daytime ceremony and an evening reception without a full reset.

Amenities

The venue is wheelchair accessible and offers free WiFi, and on Saturday nights it runs live jazz, so a couple marrying here is stepping into a room that already has its own music identity built around a house band tradition rather than a blank hall, and a Saturday-night wedding will need to work around or with that program. Wednesdays are designated wine day, which says something about the crowd and pace this place is built for day to day.

Coffee comes from Adrift Roasters out of Knoxville, Tennessee, and the kitchen runs a full food menu alongside the bar program, including flatbreads, quiches, pastries, charcuterie boards, and specialty waffles, so catering does not have to be trucked in from outside for a smaller gathering. The fireplace inside doubles as both a design feature and a genuine cold-weather amenity for an evening event, and the bookshelf-lined walls around it give the room a settled, lived-in feel rather than a rented-hall one.

Location & Getting There

The Remedy sits in the West End, adjacent to Hanes Park, with operating hours that run from 8am up to as late as 11pm depending on the day. It reads as a neighborhood spot rather than a destination venue, which matters for a couple who wants a wedding their guests can walk to from nearby streets.

Because the indoor room is a converted pharmacy with a fireplace and bookshelves, a soft, furnished space rather than an open hall, and the outdoor seating faces open park, a DJ setup has to bridge a small, absorbent indoor room with an open-air extension outside, closer to running two systems than one.