At 8 a.m. on Long Point Road, two things open together. LP Café starts serving specialty coffee, bagels, pastries and smoothies. On the courts, the morning open-play session starts its three-hour run for $5. On Thursdays, the 8 a.m. slot is the club's 65+ open play, which costs $10 plus tax.
Long Point Social Club opened at 7202 Long Point Road in late August. It is a two-acre site run by Andy Aweida and Jeff Barati, co-owners of the Kirby Group. It is several businesses on one property, each with its own hours, and membership is optional.
Membership is optional
The club offers four membership tiers. When DiningOut covered the opening, it reported that public court reservations would be available too, so you don't have to be a member to play. Court bookings, lessons and membership sign-ups all go through the club's CourtReserve portal. The booking link opens a log-in or create-account screen.
The property has 12 pickleball courts. Eight are covered. There are also four padel courts and a dog park. Parking is free. Aweida described the goal in a statement quoted by DiningOut: "Our goal is to build a community where everyone can find a way to participate and feel welcome."
The café, the kitchen and the lounge keep posted daily hours, and the courts take public reservations.
Separate hours for each part of the property
The club's website lists separate daily hours for each part of the property. Taken together, they show a place that changes over the course of the day.
| Part of the club | Hours | What it serves |
|---|---|---|
| LPSC Courts | 8 a.m. to midnight, daily | Pickleball and padel |
| LP Café | 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., daily | Specialty coffee, bagels, pastries, smoothies, grab-and-go |
| LP Bar & Kitchen | 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., daily | Scratch-made menu, beer, wine, cocktails, daily happy hour |
| The Bixby | 4 p.m. to 2 a.m., daily | Cocktail lounge with its own entrance |
| Brunch | Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. | Weekend brunch menu |
Before 3 p.m. on weekdays, the café is the only food option, so the morning is courts and coffee. The kitchen and bar open mid-afternoon. At 4 p.m. The Bixby opens next door and stays open four hours after the kitchen closes. The courts close at midnight, so the courts and the lounge are the two parts still running after 10 p.m.
The kitchen leans playful. DiningOut lists Pickleballs, which are cream cheese and dill pickle fritters with yogurt ranch, and Third Shot Wings glazed with Calabrian chile and Tajín honey. For something bigger, there's the double-smash Bixby Burger and a grilled chicken sandwich with fresh mozzarella, tomato and basil. The 7202 Steak, named for the address, is a sweet potato finished with miso butter and green apple gremolata.
What $5 and $10 get you on the courts
Open play is the cheapest way onto the courts. These are recurring sessions where you show up, pay for the slot and rotate in with whoever else is there. The club's CourtReserve event calendar currently lists:
- $5 Weekday Morning Open Play, 8 to 11 a.m.
- $5 Padel Open Play, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with a second session from 2 to 5 p.m.
- $5 Mid Day Open Play, noon to 3 p.m.
- $5 Pickleball Open Play in the covered pavilion, 1 to 4 p.m.
- Youth Intro to Pickleball, 4 to 5:30 p.m.
- Evening $5 Open Play, Uncovered, 9 p.m. to midnight
- 65+ Open Play, Thursdays 8 to 11 a.m., $10 plus tax
- Evening Uncovered Open Play on Sundays, 6 to 9 p.m., $10 plus tax
Both $10 sessions are set up as long recurring series, with dozens of future dates already on the booking calendar. The calendar also lists backhand clinics, advanced-beginner clinics, a beginner co-ed social league and padel Americano leagues. Americano is a rotating format in which partners change from round to round. These are the times and prices on the calendar right now, and the club can change them, so check the portal before you go.
A morning session costs $5, which is about what you'd pay for a coffee at the café. The midnight close also matters in practice: when it's still warm out, the 9 p.m. uncovered session lets you play after dark.
The Bixby runs on its own schedule
Most of the property is built around screens and crowds. DiningOut reported that the club was designed with nine TVs and an LED video wall, and planned to host watch parties, run clubs and themed gatherings. The Bixby is set up differently. Houstonia describes it as a TV-less neighborhood bar with a separate entrance. It serves 14 signature cocktails, more than 90 off-menu cocktails, beer, wine and mocktails. The food runs to burgers, tacos, wings and charcuterie boards.
The Houston Chronicle put The Bixby in its roundup of September openings. The lounge is at 7202 Long Point, Suite A, and seats 45 indoors and 40 on the patio. Two of the cocktails the Chronicle named are the Bixby Cup, made with gin and strawberry, and Crocodile Tears, which combines tequila, pisco and mango.
That makes The Bixby the part of the club with no connection to racquet sports at all. It's a neighborhood cocktail bar that stays open until 2 a.m., and you can walk in without going past the courts. Cocktails aren't new to this address, either. According to Houstonia's August roundup, Long Point Social Club took over the former site of the first location of Diversion, a cocktail bar. The same roundup names the Kirby Group as the hospitality group behind Pitch 25 and Bayou Heights Bier Garten. DiningOut adds Heights Biergarten to that list. All of those places are built around food and drink, and that's how the Kirby Group has set up Long Point too. The courts are the main attraction, but there's plenty to do here without playing.
Leagues run through mid-December
If drop-in play becomes a habit, the next step is a league. Houston Sports & Social Club runs a Wednesday 2v2 pickleball league at Long Point from 7 to 10:30 p.m. It is scheduled for November 4, 11 and 18, then December 2, 9 and 16. After November 2, the listed price is $170 per player or $380 per team.
The group's Sunday 2v2 league plays 5 to 7 p.m. on November 1, 8, 15 and 22 and December 6 and 13. Registration for this round is closed. It was listed at $170 per player or $380 per team.
Neither league lists a date in Thanksgiving week, and the two seasons wrap up within three days of each other in mid-December. If you want to see what league play looks like before signing up for the next round, any of the $5 open-play sessions above will give you a feel for the courts, the crowd and the timing.
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