Anvil Bar and Refuge

Opened in 2009 as Houston’s first bar devoted to classic cocktails respected as art, Anvil Bar and Refuge is located on Westheimer Road in what was originally a Bridgestone-Firestone store in 1959. The remodeling effort gutted everything, and the team fashioned the bar into an industrial-modern space with exposed brick walls, an open-duct ceiling and a custom bar top made from weathered steel plating. On weekdays, Anvil draws small gatherings of after-work drinkers engaging with talkative bartenders that entertain with shaking, stirring and muddling ingredients with painstaking attention to detail. Weekends draw bigger, louder crowds that challenge bartenders to keep the drinks coming quickly without sacrificing the quality that customers expect.

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