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Spirited book offers eerie restaurant tour Houston Chronicle May 23, 2001 |
| La Carafe at 813 Congress, founded in 1860 as the Kennedy Bakery, is touted by the authors as this city's oldest commercial structure. In keeping with its longevity, the building sports running ghosts hot and cold, spirits of either gender, of different ages and presumably from different time periods. More to the immediate point, there are not only strange shadows, cold spots and the feeling of being watched, but there are also exploding glasses and bottles to watch out for. |
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The 50 Greatest Bars in the United States (Our Humble Opinion) Men's Journal, January 2002 |
| It seems the steel pole and the external
scaffolding are the only things preventing this 142-year old bar from
crumbling into spotty alcoholic memory-- second-floor seating capacity
is severely limited for fear of collapse. Lit by three-foot candles (the
melted wax is never cleared). La Carafe is not only moody, its the perfect
mix of old men who know and young men who think they do,
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