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Sipping on a drink while looking out at a horse’s pasture and new townhomes in the background is a unique Houston experience. East End Hardware’s outdoor space is also great if you’re looking for picnic tables and lawn games like cornhole. The bar’s cocktails lean on classics like Aperol spritzes and Pimm’s cups, but it’s also famous for its boozy snowballs Read more...
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Normally, if a foodie, a cocktail snob, and a sports fan walk into a random Houston bar, one of them will end up unhappy. Unless that bar is this one—housed, as the name suggests, in a large white bungalow, in, you guessed it, the Heights. This new gastropub offers crowd-pleasing apps including a “big ass pretzel,” fried green tomatoes, flatbreads, Read more...
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The recently remodeled, retro-cool bar at Del Mar Lanes in Garden Oaks remains a classic of the genre—all hand-scripted fonts and deodorant-sprayed bowling shoes—tastefully brought up to date with 21st-century touches like nighttime laser lights and Camila Cabello music videos projected on 150-inch screens. The crowd is similarly eclectic, with birthday parties complemented by a robust bowling league featuring team Read more...
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This sprawling complex of revelry might be the only place in Houston where one friend can wear an Astros shirt while the other dons a bandage dress and neither will feel out of place. Bros play cornhole and catch the game on two giant screens in the beer garden while colleagues chow down on wings and craft beer in the Read more...
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When you find, say, the peanut-butter-and-chocolate stout known as Tasty AF from Webster’s Saloon Door Brewing Co. on a tap list, you know you’re sitting in a great beer bar. The 40 taps here are on constant rotation, filled only with beer from Houston and Texas, and there’s a good list of wines from the Lone Star State, too. This is a Read more...
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It’s early on a Sunday afternoon, and you’re a) still hungover, b) dreading checking your work email, c) wanting to lie down while also being productive-ish, or d) all of the above. The answer to your prayers is this easygoing hangout, where afternoons bleed into evenings as patrons enjoy local suds from breweries such as Saint Arnold, Sigma, and Brash; Read more...
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This small taproom within the arts district packs a punch with constantly rotating taps. The Dollar Pils Y’all is a fixture, but come back often to try seasonals like a Back That Razz Up, a fruited sour ale with raspberry lime, and an English pale ale called Margaret Thatcher Naked on a Cold Day. And if you’re into fitness, then Read more...
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It was the end of an era when 75-year Heights institution Jimmy’s Ice House closed shop in 2017, at least until a new owner scooped up the White Oak property, supersized the patio, purged what were without question the grimiest bathrooms in the city, and (gasp) added liquor. The spit-shined joint may no longer serve Lone Star from an Igloo Read more...