{"id":37904,"date":"2025-11-06T10:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/37904\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:32:06","slug":"best-of-houston-2025-best-cocktail-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/37904\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Of Houston\u00ae 2025: Best Cocktail Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best Cocktail Bar: Diversi\u00f3n<\/p>\n<p>After shuttering its Spring Branch location, Diversi\u00f3n has landed in Montrose\u2019s Harlow District, taking over a night-only perch in the Emma Jane teahouse and quickly winning a new wave of fans. Bold cocktails \u2014 tableside-brewed, caviar-topped, flamed, and featuring interesting flavoirs like smoky fig and pineapple-miso \u2014 share the spotlight with playful bites like wagyu &amp; shrimp with hot custard and morel sunomono. Sip, nibble, repeat. This is cocktail hour on expert mode.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Diversion+Cocktails\/@29.7555597,-95.3953946,571m\/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640c746410b9fe5:0xfd58550754d77377!8m2!3d29.7555597!4d-95.3953946!16s%2Fg%2F11j2yj54dz?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1226 West Clay<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversioncocktails.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">diversioncocktails.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/?post_type=newspack_collection&amp;p=390334\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan 1 \u2013 Dec 31, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best Cocktail Bar: Diversi\u00f3n After shuttering its Spring Branch location, Diversi\u00f3n has landed in Montrose\u2019s Harlow District, taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23628,21142,1634,3023,226,23629,56,58,57,23630,23631,66,23632,23633,67,21574],"class_list":{"0":"post-37904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-best-cocktail-bar","9":"tag-best-of-houston","10":"tag-cocktails","11":"tag-diversion","12":"tag-homepage","13":"tag-housemade-tinctures","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-headlines","16":"tag-houston-news","17":"tag-intimate","18":"tag-inventive","19":"tag-local","20":"tag-mixologist","21":"tag-mixology","22":"tag-restaurant","23":"tag-speakeasy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}