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  Openings and Closings: The Sporting Club Debuts, Better Luck Tomorrow Reopens

  October 23 at 4:30 a.m.

  The Sporting Club, 5102 Washington, opened its doors and debuted its retractable roof October 22. The high energy restaurant and bar comes from SoClutch Group and is on the same block as another recent concept from the group, Sugar Room. Its 8,000 square feet includes 5,000 square feet of dining...

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  Openings and Closings: King Ranch, Shoot the Moon Soon, Treebeards Memorial Now

  October 16 at 5 a.m.

  King Ranch Texas Kitchen, 1605 Post Oak Boulevard, is slated to open before the holidays. The rustic, Western-style restaurant is a collaboration between prolific restaurateur and businessman Tilman Fertitta and  family and King Ranch, Inc., the privately-held agricultural production and resource management company which also owns the historic King Ranch...

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  Openings and Closings: East End Backyard Opens,The Union Kitchen Bellaire Closes

  October 9 at 4:30 a.m.

  East End Backyard, 1105 Sampson, opens October 9. The spacious outdoor venue from owner and Houston Dynamo legend Brian Ching offers a bar with a 16,000 square foot dog-friendly patio with a 3,500-square-foot dog park. The massive outdoor space offers plenty of social distancing room for lawn games, relaxing with pod...

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  Abbott Says Bars Can Open Next Week At 50 Percent, If County Judges Approve [UPDATED]

  October 7 at 4:35 p.m.

  Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday afternoon that starting October 14, bars in most Texas counties can open at 50 percent capacity — as long as local county judges approve. Like his last round of opening Texas businesses more widely back on September 17, Abbott said that the new allowances for bar...

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  To-Go Brews Allow Flying Saucer’s UFO Club Members to Soar Once More

  October 7 at 4 a.m.

  COVID-19 put lots of personal goals on hold. Some of those plans were grand and some might have seemed frivolous, but they were our goals, mountains and molehills the pandemic forced us to stop scaling. Now, months later with no foreseeable end to our changed lives in sight, being able...

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  Abbott Winks At Reopening Bars, 18 Days After Calling Them "COVID-Spreading Locations"

  October 6 at 10:57 a.m.

  In his latest coy pandemic policy tweet, Greg Abbott Monday afternoon strongly hinted that he might soon relax restrictions on state bars due to Texans’ alleged success in slowing the spread of COVID-19. “Texans have continued to keep COVID under control,” he wrote. “The hospitalizations, number of new positive cases,...