Reserve 101

12/25/2025

Follow our IG account for your chance to join us to pick our next single barrel from Buffalo Trace Distillery ! Our Reserve 101 x Southern Smoke Blantons Gold Single barrel is available till sold out with profits supporting Southern Smoke, a non profit who has raised and donated millions to hospitality workers when they need it most !

PS: if you’re in the Houston area, we are dropping ANOTHER Blanton’s Gold Single Barrel! This one is in partnership with Reserve 101 Bar for Charity! Reserve 101, Longhorn Liquor and Southern Smoke Foundation together dropping bombs! Only available at our Heights location!

11/14/2025

Friday 11.14 | Join us as we host for a social hour and chat with Master Distiller Bryan Smith!
Hard Truth Whiskey flows from 5-7pm!

10/29/2025

Huge thanks to DiningOut for the feature in Houston’s Best Cocktail Bars! We’re proud to be listed among so many great spots — Thank you Megha for including us in your thoughtful mix of places that represent the best of Houston’s ever evolving cocktail community. Houston’s bar scene runs deep, and we’re lucky to be part of it.

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08/07/2025

We are opening our doors later tonight after hosting somo very special friends!
Doors tonight open at 7pm.
We can't wait to welcome you back in. If you are curious about creating a special private event with us, check the link in our bio to learn more. Cheers!

06/20/2025

It’s official, Nova Reserve gets released! Reserve 101’s 15 Anniversary collaboration with Compass Box. To celebrate, we worked with Compass Box to create our very own bottling and blend, limited to 690 bottles and released nationally.

Years in the making, proofed to 101 to honor our namesake, with whiskey as old as 25 years in our blend. A big rich sherry bomb just like we like, dark fruits, bold chocolates, with the faintest wisp of smoke for depth.

Today we will be presale releasing the bottles at our event, and tomorrow these bottles will be released to the public at our friends locally listed below. We will also update as we can.

Ricky’s Liquor (Spring)
Ly’s Liquor (Eado)
Oasis Liquor (Cypress)
First Sip (LaPorte)
Twin’s Liquor (Webster, Woodlands, Kingwood)
NASA Liquor (Clear Lake)

Lands following week : Rice Fine Wines & Liq (Bellaire)

From our hands to yours, enjoy!

06/14/2025

Reserve 101 is looking to collaborate with Houston’s talented fashion creatives to help curate a bespoke look for our team behind the bar and for our team. We would love suggestions from those in the community so we can keep the talents IN all of our community!

✂️ The inspo: Jack Kerouac in a Thom Browne knit.

📨 : [email protected]

05/09/2025

🇮🇪 Our new Ireland Inspired Menu is live !
Each new menu from will be a traveling deep diver into a region we love to explore. We will highlight its lore, its native spirits, and and its impact in its community.

Please enjoy Dee’s “Moonlit Wings.”

Teeling Irish
St Germain
Sage
Rosé Verjus

📖 In Irish folklore, the Tuatha de Danann were one of the original inhabitants of Ireland-that is, until a warrior tribe, the Milesians (or Celts), arrived. The Milesians attacked and won a war against the Tuatha de Danann, eventually driving them underground.
The Tuatha de Danann used their innate magic to become the Sidhe (pronounced Shee)-today known as the “fairies.”

Like most folkloric events, the fairies and their magical, mysterious ways are often used to make sense of the indescribable or incomprehensible. Pre-Christian monuments are said to have been built by fairy folk, bad luck and illness as a result of offending the fairies and people who disappear have been kidnapped by the little people. Even natural (and supernatural) phenomena can be explained by fairies. Generally, it’s best to avoid angering the fairies because who knows what they might do?

04/28/2025

⚡️💖 Speed Rack fast track is today at Reserve 101 ! Join us in cheering on our own and the rest of the fastest, most talented women Houston has as they compete for their spot in the Speed Rack finals!
Speed Rack is an exclusively woman and femme high-speed bartending competition designed to highlight up-and-coming talent in the cocktail industry and give back to those impacted by breast cancer. To date, Speed Rack has raised nearly $2,000,000 for charities supporting breast cancer research!

04/24/2025

Our team is off to camp! Congratulations Marc on being selected as the next 🐿️ headed to Camp Runamok !
Camp Runamok is a camp set in the heart of Kentucky designed for bartenders with a focus on education, charity, and community building. Campers come back with a sense of community, hands on experience in their craft, and are exposed to an entire network of bar professionals. With applicants coming from 44 states, 2 territories, and 9 other countries it is a huge honor for to have been accepted into one of the most sought after hospitality programs in the world!
Thank you to Lush Life Productions & Lindsey’s team for hosting all these talented bar professionals and opening so many doors for them in the future!

04/23/2025

We are excited to announce that Reserve 101 is a 2025 Spirited Awards® Regional Top 10 Honoree for Best U.S. Cocktail Bar for the U.S. Central region presented by Pernod Ricard!
Read more about the 2025 Spirited Awards® and see the U.S. 2025 Regional Top 10 Honorees list here:

https://talesofthecocktail.org/spirited-awards-2025-u-s-regional-top-10-honorees/

Special thanks to Forbes the official media partner for the 2025 Annual Spirited Awards!