201 Live Oak Street was built in 1981 as the new location of The Grapevine, a restaurant that had jumped around in recent years in the area. The first incarnation of The Grapevine was a wine shop and delicatessen located at 315 Texas Avenue owned by Bill & Patsy Perry1, a long-gone address that will soon be covered on this site. In 1976 it was moved to the Saber Inn as the restaurant lease before moving out in 1981 to a purpose-built building.2
Patsy Perry (later Zabel) operated the restaurant for another twenty years before she retired in April 2001 and closed the restaurant. She was unable to lease it as another restaurant due to its out-of-the-way location but anticipated it might end up becoming office space.
In late 2004, the dream of it becoming a new restaurant became a reality when The Grapevine reopened under new ownership and featured many of the same recipes. Unfortunately, the restaurant closed around summer 2005, this time for good.
Normally we would just put up an ad (as seen above) but today, we're presenting (and this is something I've worked out) real recipes from The Grapevine. The dressing, the potatoes, and the cheesecake have all been released on a Facebook group, and they're here now. (Yes, I got permission and yes, the link does in fact work!)
I also acquired a partial menu from late 2000 (with the last price increases in place--a typical entree held a cost of about $8.50) but I decided against putting it up except on request.
This blog reports it was "Lighthouse Christian Church" for a while after the closing of the Grapevine. The blog talked about said baked potatoes in great length, which I have reproduced here. I was going to leave a comment, but comments are closed on that post. Their loss, I suppose. I don't know how long Lighthouse was there, the blog was published in June 2007, but June 2007 happened to be when the current tenant, the Rohr Chabad Jewish Center, opened its doors for the first time.
Nearby: Fuego Tortilla Grill, La Quinta next to Denny's, and Rice Garden
1. At some point early on, Bill and Patsy divorced. Her name remained Patsy Perry in 1981 but Bill was not mentioned, by 1996 it had become Patsy Zabel.
2. Per this article
UPDATE 03-11-2025: Rewrote post with new information later learned.
