{"id":12228,"date":"2026-07-08T14:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/san-antonios-93-year-old-esquire-tavern-has-new-owner\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:09:20","slug":"san-antonios-93-year-old-esquire-tavern-has-new-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/san-antonios-93-year-old-esquire-tavern-has-new-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio\u2019s 93-year-old Esquire Tavern has new owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown\u2019s historic Esquire Tavern has changed hands, and the new owner is a familiar face: longtime operator and beverage director Stephan Mendez. Mendez took ownership of both the Commerce Street landmark \u2014 home to Texas\u2019 longest wooden bar top \u2014\u00a0and its basement haunt Downstairs from architect and developer Chris Hill. Hill bought and restored the [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacurrent.com\/food-drink\/flavor\/san-antonios-93-year-old-esquire-tavern-has-new-owner\/\">San Antonio\u2019s 93-year-old Esquire Tavern has new owner<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacurrent.com\/\">San Antonio Current<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown\u2019s historic Esquire Tavern has changed hands, and the new owner is a familiar face: longtime operator and beverage director Stephan Mendez. Mendez took ownership of both the Commerce Street landmark \u2014 home to Texas\u2019 longest wooden bar top \u2014\u00a0and its basement haunt Downstairs from architect and developer Chris Hill. Hill bought and restored the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}