It baffles the mind as to why someone would try to open a killer pub in Houston, but Cecil’s Pub comes from an older time, when Houston had culture (Anglo nerd pioneer cowboy) and was a small city instead of the place people go when they fail in Los Angeles and New York.

A few months ago, Cecil’s announced its demise because its landlord figured out that instead of renting for a relatively low sum per month, they could sell that prime midtown property for millions of dollars, and yeeted Cecil’s the winds. However, thanks to the gumption of its proprietors, it has returned.

As it turns out, it has reinvented itself as a Brasil clone:

Cecil’s owner Jonah Herd told Chron.com, which was first to report the bar’s reopening, that the building’s smaller interior footprint means it won’t have room for its signature pool tables. However, the new building does offer a larger patio than its predecessor.

Similarly, the lack of a walk-in cooler will limit the number of beer taps to four (down from 16). However, Cecil’s will have a full kitchen, an amenity the old location lacked. Plans are still being finalized on a menu, but it will likely center around pizza.

We have high hopes, of course, but the utility of Cecil’s was that it was a watering hole. Dark, stank of beer, endorsed life-wasting activities like pool and unwise hookups behind the old Kickarillo house that it was located in, with a wide range of reasonable options at a decent price.

The new one looks like higher prices, fancier offerings, and fewer variations, so like in Brasil, you can go in and get the beer of the day and a nice quinoa crust goat butter pizza with extra buffalo mozzarella and Chernobyl basil on your hydroponic basement tomatoes.

However, none will forget the bar that was decked out in lots of stickers, but included death metal ones, and hired metalheads to work the bar, which is why many of us ended up walking home in the wrong direction. Let us hope for its rebirth.

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