"We've been approached to do a shipping container bar on the ice," Sarah says. "People come up with ideas, like a bunkhouse, that we would've never thought of." ...

It seems Dallas's first shipping container bar, The Cedars Backyard, which officially opened Nov. 4 as an offshoot of The Cedars Social, is the perfect intersection of kitsch and cool.

Texas Tech alumni Jane’t Howey and Sheryl Estes came up with the design, turning a standard 8-foot by 20-foot shipping container into the world’s most portable open-air bar and grill.

The container bar measures 12.6 ft (3.8 m) by 8 ft (2.4 m), comprises a total floorspace of 100 sq ft (9.2 sq m) and is painted black and red. The exterior sports a small cedar overhang and ...

This shipping container bar is on our Michigan summer bucket list. Published: ; Jun. 21, 2017, 9:20 p.m.