LOCAL Houston | The City Guide October 2017 | Page 31

FOOD | ARTS | COMMUNITY | STYLE+LEISURE By Mike Cook Photography provided by Edison There are plenty of signs you’re operating a successful bar. Longevity, lines out the door, opening multiple locations, so on and so forth. Another sign of a successful bar? A bar from a city far, far away sues you. Since it’s the Man Issue, we thought we’d just go ahead and be assertive early on: Bull****. But, frankly, Edison didn’t need to be sued to be reminded how solid of a bar it really is. The foresight to take a corner lot in the near northside (north of Downtown, north of I-10, east of 45, but south of 610) and design something so well, from the building to the menus