The occasion’s over for Outpost Junction, the multi-story St. Paul Sq. complicated housing 4 separate bars.
In a Sunday Instagram publish, the enterprise introduced that its quartet of ideas — Blessed Bogside (previously Francis Bogside), The Field, Frankie’s Roundup and Vino Veritas — would finish service Sunday. The assertion invited patrons to cease by for drink specials and an opportunity to take pleasure in one final celebration however supplied no cause for the closure.
“Thanks to everybody who’s shared drinks, laughs and late nights with us — we’ve cherished each minute,” the publish concluded.
The shuttering of Outpost Junction comes roughly a 12 months after the kids of Robert Darilek, the late enterprise associate of Francis Bogside founder Steve Mahoney, took over administration of the Mahoney Bar Group and its properties, together with Outpost Junction.
Throughout an interview with the Present final September, Darilek’s son Trey stated the household stepped in as a result of they frightened the possession group’s out-of-control spending would destroy their father’s legacy.
On the time, Trey Darilek — former trucking firm proprietor and one-time NFL guard — stated Mahoney Bar Group had lapsed months behind in tax funds to the Texas Comptroller’s Workplace. Nonetheless, the enterprise had since caught up on the taxes it owed the state, he added.
The Present reached out to Darilek on Monday afternoon for touch upon Outpost Junction’s closure however received no rapid response.
After the household’s takeover of Mahoney Bar Group, Darilek stated that they had been pressured to shut down one of many enterprise’s ideas, Blue Field Bar — a 12-year-old fixture on the Pearl — to staunch the movement of crimson ink.
Whereas Darilek undertook a rebranding of the 4 bars that made up Outpost Junction, he informed the Present final fall that he deliberate no modifications on the group’s different properties, George’s Hold, Hanzo and Lilly’s Greenville.
“I’m fairly positive we’re to the purpose the place issues have stabilized,” he stated. “The taxes have been a giant one, and the closure of Blue Field was one thing unlucky however unavoidable.”
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