How to Save a Dive Bar and Not Ruin It, According to a Bartender

When the owner of Catbirds, a fixture of Houston’s Montrose neighborhood since 1995, decided to stop running the bar, Bobby Heugel and his business partner Peter Jahnke stepped in. Heugel, who owns and operates several of Houston’s pioneering cocktail bars, had been a frequent guest at Catbirds, and didn’t want to see it go. “It […]