Houston Wine Bars Adapt to COVID-19 By Selling Wine To Go
Relaxing at your favorite wine bar is out of the question as we try to flatten the coronavirus curve, but that doesn’t mean you can’t take the wine bar home with you. Many area wine bars and wine-focused businesses have transitioned to retail-only, offering wine by the bottle as well as food for takeout, curbside […]
What to Drink & Eat at the Houston Rodeo Champion Wine Garden
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is in full swing, and thousands of people are headed to NRG Park for entertainment, barbecue, carnival fare and more. One part of the festivities that should not be overlooked is the Champion Wine Garden, featuring more than 70 award-winning wines from the 2020 Rodeo Uncorked! International Wine Competition. Visitors […]
Special Wine Flight at Perry’s Steakhouse & Grille is a Taste of History
There was a time when the world didn’t have much regard for wines from the United States — not even those produced in Napa Valley. Conventional wisdom was that the best wine came from France. That was the case until the Judgment of Paris. Organized by Steven Spurrier, a Brit who owned a wine shop […]
Houston Wine Bars Are Showcasing Spanish Wine & Cider Through Jan. 31
Texas TXOTX, the annual celebration of food and drink from the Basque region of Spain, runs through January 31. This is the fourth year that Texas bars and restaurants — including several in Houston — have participated in showcasing what this mountainous region nudging the French border has to offer. (There are other participants in […]
Popular Midtown Wine Bar 13 celsius is Celebrating Its 13th Anniversary With 13 Events
13 celsius at 3000 Caroline is such a fixture in Houston that it is both surprising and appropriate that the wine bar — located in a 1920s-era building that was once a dry cleaners — is now 13 years old. It was one of Houston’s first serious wine bars, and yet the prevailing culture is […]