NEW MEGA BAR

Houston’s NEW Mega Patio Bar

Memorial Resident Opens His Latest Venture

by William Hanover

You’ve heard of megachurches and megamalls but now let us introduce the Height’s latest “Patio Bar”. This long in the works venture from serial entrepreneur Lonnie Schiller and company encompasses over 9,000 square feet, offers sports viewing on over 40 TVs and 40 craft beers, and is likely a haven for Gen X and Y.

Lonnie Schiller of Schiller Del Grande Restaurant Group has had this property and idea in the works as far back as 2018 before it finally came to fruition in April. It is truly a family affair as Schiller’s wife and partner Candice is the designer, and their daughter Caroline Murphy and son-in-law Brendan Murphy are co-owners.

Let’s face it, this is a giant ice house, albeit a fancy one a la Kirby Ice House and longtime Heights hang out at the Cedar Creek Bar & Grill.

From the original creator of Culture Map (a digital publication launched in 2009) and some say along with partner Robert Del Grande the inventor of “Tex-Mex.” Yes, of Schiller Del Grande/ Cafe Annie fame, and notorious for creating Cafe Express, which they sold to Wendy’s and yet later repurchased and sold again. Back in the summer of 2020, Schiller told anyone that would listen that the new normal and the COVID economy could render a “corporate restaurant wasteland,” adding that Houston “will be a different city” if it loses its independently owned staples. Unfortunately, the dust has still not settled, and the restaurant casualties continue to mount.

Before making this proclamation in 2020, Schiller and his Schiller Del Grande group, along with a team of investors and restaurant veterans, purchased the land in 2018 and began construction in the fall of 2019.

Dog-friendly Patterson Park offers organic wines and nitro brewed coffee. The plan is to have two food trucks, one serving American food and another serving international fare.

It is on Patterson Street along White Oak Bayou just north of I-10.

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