Last Call

Celebrating Alice's Tall Texan, Houston's Kindest Bar (Seriously)

The venerable watering hole will close for good at the end of the month, but the memories remain.

Newcomer's Guide

The 10 Best Bars in the Bayou City

The essential cocktail lounges, vinotecas, beer gardens, dives, and other watering holes for when you need a drink.

08/30/2018 Edited by Gwendolyn Knapp

The Summer of Staycations

From first-rate food crawls to cozy cat cafes to concerts under the stars, this corner of the Heights has cool covered.

Ice House

Charting the demise of the Inner Loop dive bar, an increasingly endangered species

Best Bars 2016

Five of the Bayou City's most legendary bartenders on their specialty drinks, favorite stories and 75th birthday celebrations.

Best Bars 2016

Starting with the best bar for pretending the new Heights ever happened.

Best Bars 2014

Ours is a city with dive bars in abundance, but we dug a little deeper to put together a list every Houstonian must know.