Best Dive Bar: Cowboix Hevvven
You know the highways and backroads that lead to the plethora of intriguing dive bars in this city. Ask your Uber driver to pass La Mexicana on Montrose and you’re suddenly at the mother of them all, Lola’s. Take those southwest Westbury streets to a night of karaoke and cheap drinks at the Cozy Corner. A mile or two from the bustling terminals at the big airport you can swizzle to your heart’s content, pre- or post-flight, with travelers who’ve journeyed into Hoot County from our familiar streets or from locales afar by plane.
The route you’ll need to take to this season’s best dive bar can’t really be GPS’d. To reach Cowboix Hevvven, you’ll have to navigate the secret doors and hidden rooms of an abandoned radio station, left deserted when its employees suddenly vanished. You’ll hang a left at the giant slice of toast, cruise through a room of imaginary beer cans and zoom past an alien vehicle from a distant nebula. That’s because Cowboix Hevvven is tucked into a dark corner of Houston’s Meow Wolf, doing the Lord’s work of offering adult beverages to help you make sense of the surreal you experience inside the exhibit but, more importantly, outside of it in your daily life.
Described as “more than just your ordinary, reg’lar, run of the mill afterlife purgatory honky tonk dive bar – we serve hot dogs, too,” Cowboix Hevvven does feature interesting glizzies, sharables, sandwiches and sweet treats. But, you’re there to have your brain reset by creativity and hooch. The bar menu is as simple as it gets – the mandatory Lone Star, something from across the street at Saint Arnold and whiskey, vodka and tequila. Just like your favorite watering hole, you could rent out the whole place for a special event. When there’s a concert in the room nearby, the bar might concoct something special, as it did with “Purple Drank” for a Paul Wall show this year. But mostly, it’s just you, your partner, your friends, a poker player whose head is on fire and drinks to help you better appreciate what’s imagined and what is real in your life.
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