Houston’s Best New Cocktail Bars | Eater Houston

"Plush Santé Lounge in Upper Kirby offers a refined dining and cocktail experience, set against a backdrop of vintage chandeliers, jewel-toned lounge seating, and a pair of three-hundred-year-old olive trees. The curated menu features oysters, caviar, and hand-crafted cocktails, each named after a renowned work of art. The Three Pears Old Fashioned, inspired by Paul Cézanne’s Three Pears, combines six-year-aged rye whiskey, barrel-aged maple, and brandy infused with apples and pears, while the Merry Drinker, a nod to Frans Hals’ the Merry Drinker, blends gin, lemon citrus, passionfruit juice, and vanilla. Classic cocktails, from a tequila-based espresso martini to a French 75, are complemented by an extensive selection of wine and champagne. Go big with a large-format cocktail like the Le Fleur-A Fresh Effervescence, a mix of cucumber vodka, mint botanical vodka, an herbaceous aperitif, and Prosecco." - Marcy de Luna