Esquire has a new owner, a former bartender who loved the bar ‘from the moment I walked through the front door’

There’s a new boss in town where the ice-cold beer began flowing from taps for the first time on the very same day Prohibition ended on Dec. 5, 1933.

The Esquire Tavern, the oldest bar on the San Antonio River Walk, announced new majority ownership Wednesday.

Architect and developer Chris Hill has passed the torch to Stephan Mendez, the Esquire’s longtime operator and beverage director, and now owner of the storied tavern…

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