It’s official: Grapevine Bar is moving to former Redfield’s location
Michelle and Ronny Honea took the staff of The Grapevine Bar over to check out the bar’s new location on Butler Street this week, and to celebrate the upcoming move. (Photos courtesy of Michelle and Ronny Honea) Last year, after some 26 years in the little beige stucco building in the 3900 block of Maple Avenue, Grapevine Bar owners Michelle and Ronny Honea found out their lease was up, and that Crow Holdings had big plans for the property that didn’t include the Grapevine.
The Honeas have been searching ever since for just the right location for the Grapevine to move to — and now they’ve found it.
Michelle and Ronny announced this week that the Grapevine — the perennial Readers Voice Award winner for best straight bar for LGBTQ folks — will be moving soon to 2213 Butler St.
in The Medical District. If that address sounds familiar, it’s probably because that’s where the infamous Redfield’s Neighborhood Tavern was located for a short time back in in 2020, before the straight men who owned the place got caught on tape telling the female general manager to stop hiring so many gay men to work there because Redfield’s wasn’t a gay bar.
