One in all Houston’s most profitable bar operators is bringing his abilities to the Vitality Hall. Steven Salazar is opening Ashford Beer Backyard on the Ashford Yard mixed-use growth.
Slated to open in early 2026, Ashford Beer Backyard will construct on the success Salazar has had with Katy Beer Backyard, the challenge he opened final summer season at The Dryer, a mixed-use growth on the property of Katy’s historic Cardiff Rice Dryer. Like KBG, Ashford Beer Backyard shall be giant — roughly 21,000 sq. ft — divided into a ten,000-square-foot indoor beer corridor with a companion cocktail bar and a 11,000-square-foot outside beer backyard that’s shaded by timber.
“We’re sticking with that Bavarian allure,” Salazar says about his imaginative and prescient for Ashford Beer Backyard. “Convey your loved ones. It’s actually relaxed. The youngsters are enjoying. You’ve gotten a number of generations hanging out. It’s labored properly in Katy. We’re excited to deliver it to a brand new space.”
In fact, the brand new challenge will make some enhancements on the unique. Most significantly, Ashford can have a full kitchen (KBG principally depends on meals vans and a close-by meals court docket). Salazar says he’s searching for a chef to guide the kitchen.
In response to buyer demand for personal occasion area, Ashford Beer Backyard can even have a bigger second flooring patio than KBG does. The beer backyard can have a bigger display screen to make it simpler for individuals to observe sports activities.
Situated on the positioning of a former Schlumberger campus close to the intersection of Dairy Ashford Rd. and Briar Forest Dr., Ashford Yard is a 12.7-acre growth that can embrace flats, eating places, and retail tenants. Salazar says he discovered his values aligned with the tasks builders, Houston actual property corporations Market Sq. Corporations and Tenon Property Firm.
“We now have an analogous imaginative and prescient of high quality for the group and creating an area and having nice neighbors. Not being a strip middle however a real growth that’s above and past what the world has to supply,” Salazar says. Later, he provides, “It appears nice for us to be surrounded by firms akin to Shell and Baker Hughes and all these nice neighborhoods.”
