Khon's Wine Darts Coffee Art

Khon's bar is now up there with my top three favorite Houston bars.  I really enjoyed the vibe of this bar.  The music selection in the jukebox is mostly indie rock with a few classics.  The art on the walls features contemporary paintings for sale by local artists.  The bartender, Greg Dean, whose daytime job is performing in plays and teaching acting classes at The Catastrophic Theatre, says the wall art changes periodically so there is always something new to mull over in your mind.

The beer is a fine selection of popular microbrews, the most popular of which is Abita.  I've had the Abita Strawberry, which is what I asked for, but they were all out of it yesterday.  That's how popular it is.  Greg recommended the Abita Purple Haze instead.  It was delicious.  I was trying to figure out what flavor I was tasting but I couldn't quite figure it out. So I asked my husband.  He said he thought it was grape.  I tasted it again and figured he was right, but I asked Greg to be sure.  Greg said the flavor I was tasting was raspberry.  He said it was one of those beers where you can tell there's some sort of berry flavor but you can't quite pin it down until someone tells you what it is and then you can totally taste the raspberry.  I would say he hit it right on the nose.

Greg seemed like a really intelligent and knowledgeable bartender so I asked him to recommend a beer for me.  I told him I don't like hoppy beer.  He recommended an Alaskan Amber.  This was another hit because it's the best beer I've had in a long time.




















I would've liked to stay longer but we had a cooking class to attend at the Rice Epicurean Cooking School and we needed to meet our friends.  We will most certainly return and we'll bring fellow beer drinkers next time.  This bar is too cool not to share.