re: Anyone here started their own bar?

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I prefer a dark hole in the wall to drink

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Why not just sit in your bedroom with the light off?

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If I want to sit outside and drink I'll go camping or in my back porch

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So you would go camping just to drink outside? Sounds retarded.

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so you would go camping just to drink outside?

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frick yeah!

I think your idea would be perfect for BR. There is nothing like it. Hopefully Dat Dog and the Gov't beer garden will have what you mentioned. Weather in BR is bad 50% of the time, but our good weather days are as good as they get. Anytime the weather is great like that, me and my friends love going to drink somewhere, have a little food, and watch a game. The first comments are always "lets go somewhere with a patio or outdoor seating". Like you are saying, way fewer places than you would think in BR have good drinks, good patio, and good food. At least in a decent location. It essentially always comes down to Bulldog, Zippys, or Curbside. I live at those places. Bulldog has the best tap selection, curbside has the best food, and Zippys has the best drink prices plus margs.

If you do it, you have to do it right though, know your market in BR. Have nice TVs with all NFL, NCAAF, NBA, LSU sports games. You don't need a large tap list, just a quality tap list for the craft beer drinkers (think Overpass Merchant or Olive or Twist vs Pelican House). Provide good food, but cheaper and not huge portions (the sausages are perfect for this), if I want a large meal I will go to a restaurant over a bar. Have simple mixed drink options that aren't a fortune for the people who don't love craft beer, this is one of the primary reasons Zippys is a staple in BR except they do it to compliment margs.

Agreed. Just make sure your place is covered and well shaded with good fans and those heaters for the winter time.

Smoking isn't bad during the day because of so few people, in the evening at the Bulldog it is bad. We go on Saturdays and Sundays with the dogs and sit outside, have a couple of drinks, and hang out. You may have 1 or 2 people smoking but since it is an outdoor area I never smell it.

I want one bar in Houston (that is not downtown or out in Katy so preferably in the Heights or up north) to get

DigitalPour

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I'm considering bringing a Bangers in Austin type of beer garden to BR somewhere.

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If it's a "beer garden" focus on good beers, not # of tap handles. CBD is a good example of quality beers. They have a shite load of handles too, but it's mostly quality. The only problem with CBD is the awful atmosphere.

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I wonder if CDB will ever begin to draft their own beer, I know when they opened a couple of the managers made mention that would eventually be a goal.

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Unless they aren't charging for it, then i doubt it. You want to sell your own beer, then you have to license yourself as a brewery or brewpub and jump through all the hoops that come from that.

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Just popping in to say that I can't believe there isn't a decent bar in BR that is smoke free. It would crush. Also, people who don't smoke are generally better customers. Cure being smoke free, when everyone else was filled with nasty arse smoke, helped establish them big time.

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Draft House downtown is smoke free inside.

The Varsity is thankfully smoke free now.

Radio Bar is smoke free.

Spanish Moon is supposed to be smoke free (at least downstairs), but it's never enforced.

Glad someone is filling the void. Radio Bar isn't for me, but it's solid. Never been to Draft House.

BR needs to get with the smoking ban. Game changer.