{"id":216515,"date":"2025-09-10T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/216515\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:33:10","slug":"whiskey-obsessed-houston-restaurant-will-shutter-river-oaks-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/216515\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey-obsessed Houston restaurant will shutter River Oaks location"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another longtime Houston restaurant will soon serve its last meal. Bosscat Kitchen & Libations<\/strong><\/a> will close after service on Sunday, September 28, owner John \u201cJT\u201d Reed tells CultureMap. <\/p>\n

Open since February 2017<\/a> in a prime location near River Oaks District, the California-based restaurant quickly earned a following for its Southern-inspired comfort food, lavish brunch, and an expansive whiskey selection that it featured in a separate room with the space. The restaurant\u2019s success led to a second location in The Woodlands that opened in 2023<\/a> and will remain open after the River Oaks outpost has closed. <\/p>\n

As Reed explains, the restaurant\u2019s revenue had been on a slow but steady decline for two years. With its lease expiring at the end of the year, he and his partners in Daily Dose Hospitality made the painful decision to shutter in September, allowing the restaurant\u2019s staff \u2014 the group who aren\u2019t moving to positions at either Ten Sushi + Cocktail Bar<\/a>, the company\u2019s pan-Asian concept that\u2019s located across the street from Bosscat, or in The Woodlands \u2014 time to secure new jobs during the critical holiday season of October, November, and December. <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople\u2019s incomes are spread a little thin,\u201d Reed says. \u201cIf they used to come two times per week, now they only come one. If they used to come every weekend, now they come every other. It was just enough of a decline that we had to evaluate if it was the right move at the right time [to renew the lease].\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the decision to close this location of Bosscat, Reed expresses optimism about Daily Dose\u2019s future in Houston. He\u2019s interested in a new location for Bosscat in the River Oaks\/Galleria area \u2014 ideally in a space about half the size as Bosscat\u2019s current 7,000 square feet \u2014 as well as opportunities in places like Katy and the Energy Corridor. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll spend the next six to eight months looking for somewhere in the general vicinity to migrate to, but there\u2019s nothing really available that wouldn\u2019t require heavy lifting to \u2018Bosscat-up\u2019 the space,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019d like to keep a concept in this general area, because we have a great following.\u201d<\/p>\n

Between now and September 28, Bosscat will operate normally, running its full menu daily until the final day of service. The final weekend will feature a party atmosphere with a DJ for the final Sunday brunch. He hopes friends and regulars will stop by for one more Fruity Pebbles French toast or a burger with the same level of enthusiasm shown to his friend Ryan Lachaine, whose recently-shutted restaurant Riel<\/a> opened about a month before Bosscat. <\/p>\n

\u201cI saw what Ryan did. I thought the city gave him a phenomenal farewell,\u201d Reed says. \u201cWe said let\u2019s run it to the end of the month. Then we\u2019ll transition the space to private events for Q4. We\u2019ll keep the space through the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. Anyone looking to book a holiday party can look to Bosscat as a potential venue. After all, nothing says \u2018job well done, team\u2019 quite like Bosscat\u2019s selection of more than 250 whiskies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another longtime Houston restaurant will soon serve its last meal. Bosscat Kitchen & Libations will close after service…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":216516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[118256,22790,4345,12212,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-216515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-bosscat-kitchen","9":"tag-closings","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-news-you-can-eat","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115182148357941737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}