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Off-topic, but maybe on too.....

I have something to confess, I work Downtown, spend a lot at the Park Shops (best place for low-hastle-day-before-Christmas shopping IMO), go the Angelika on a regular basis, etc. But, I have not spent much time on Main. I always favor Market Square if I do wander into the area at night.

This weekend though, I have out of towners coming in and want to show them around the hip new nightlife area we have. If they are over 30, in jeans and casual wear, what places do we walk into as we stroll down Main Street?

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My favorite is the Flying Saucer. Casual...good crowd...and tons of beer selections from around the world.

http://www.beerknurd.com - check out that selection!

i've also enjoyed the new irish pub (maybe not so new anymore) on Main in the Rice Lofts bldg...don't remember the name of it off hand. Across the street from it is another irish pub, Slainte.

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Places that allow jeans include:

Market Square/Franklin area:

La Carafe

Warrens

Twelve Spot

Cabo

Old Cotton Exchange Bar

Brewery Tap

Over by Commerce and main:

Speak Easy

Main:

Live (sports bar)

Deans

St. Petes Dancing Marlin

F2

Saba

Slainte

Shay McElroy

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It would be great if they moved downtown.

Then in September, Cedric Burgher, a former Enron vice president and most recently Halliburton treasurer, was named Burger King's chief financial officer.

Geez, what a resume.. Enron and Halliburton. I want to party with this guy.

Think he gets crap for his last name? :P

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Jobs r jobs r jobs.

True. But the city did a piss poor job luring Boeing here when they wanted to relocate from Seattle. They eventually went to Chicago.

Simply having a glut of cheap, recently built office space available is not enough to lure Fortune 500's to downtown. Having a large and influential industrial-technology company like Boeing would have been much more beneficial than ending up with a corporate caretaker for a far-flung empire of burger franchises.

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True. But the city did a piss poor job luring Boeing here when they wanted to relocate from Seattle. They eventually went to Chicago.

Simply having a glut of cheap, recently built office space available is not enough to lure Fortune 500's to downtown. Having a large and influential industrial-technology company like Boeing would have been much more beneficial than ending up with a corporate caretaker for a far-flung empire of burger franchises.

What? Boeing ruled Houston out in its initial search because it already had a presence in the Houston area. That's why it ruled out several locations. I think the state, and the city has done a tremendous amount of work creating jobs here in a time when jobs simly didn't exist. Give me burger king. I would hardly call a private multil-national; multi-billion dollar company a far-flung empire of burger franchises.

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What?  Boeing ruled Houston out in its initial search because it already had a presence in the Houston area.  That's why it ruled out several locations.  I think the state, and the city has done a tremendous amount of work creating jobs here in a time when jobs simly didn't exist.  Give me burger king.  I would hardly call a private multil-national; multi-billion dollar company a far-flung empire of burger franchises.

Just because Boeing was relocating its headquarters didnt mean they were creating/moving jobs too. The manufacturing and R&D sites where bulk of Boeing jobs are stayed in Seattle and elsewhere. I think only about a couple of hundreds administrative jobs moved to Chicago.

However, it does help the prestige of a city when a company like Boeing is based there although it stayed in Seattle for so long that in the minds of most people Seattle is still the Boeing city.

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Three entrepreneurs that formed a company last month to open and operate bars and restaurants in the Central Business District have signed their first deal.

Joe Martin, John Zotos and Jeffrey Yarbrough have leased the space at 416 Main Street, formerly home to Saba Blue Water Cafe, and are in the process of renovating the 3,600-square-foot location. It will reopen as a yet-unnamed Mexican restaurant.

This will be the first new restaurant along Main Street since the Downtown Entertainment District opened in October 2003.

Check it out here...

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories...06/daily16.html

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Corner Bakery is a Brinker concept (yes, corporate) and will be done June 27th. Wulfgang Puck will be an Express.

Not a big fan of Corner bakery, more than likely a lunch time spot that closes at night. Still, as we all say, better than another empty spot in a building. Its too bad the name implies something local and cozy, but is in fact a typical chain. Basically an american version of La Madeleine.

I'm not exactly holding my breath for P Diddy or Emeril to open up restaurants here. Yes it would be great for name recognition, but the quality of restaurants already here would far surpass what either of those two hacks can produce. Wulfgang Puck Express is a prime example of a way to attach your name to anything that can be mass produced. As the Houston Press said, Chef Boyardee was probably once a respected chef.

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Three entrepreneurs that formed a company last month to open and operate bars and restaurants in the Central Business District have signed their first deal.

Joe Martin, John Zotos and Jeffrey Yarbrough have leased the space at 416 Main Street, formerly home to Saba Blue Water Cafe, and are in the process of renovating the 3,600-square-foot location. It will reopen as a yet-unnamed Mexican restaurant.

This will be the first new restaurant along Main Street since the Downtown Entertainment District opened in October 2003.

Check it out here...

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories...06/daily16.html

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Three entrepreneurs that formed a company last month to open and operate bars and restaurants in the Central Business District have signed their first deal.

Joe Martin, John Zotos and Jeffrey Yarbrough have leased the space at 416 Main Street, formerly home to Saba Blue Water Cafe, and are in the process of renovating the 3,600-square-foot location. It will reopen as a yet-unnamed Mexican restaurant.

This will be the first new restaurant along Main Street since the Downtown Entertainment District opened in October 2003.

Check it out here...

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories...06/daily16.html

Good. There hasn't been a traditional type Mexican restaurant downtown since El Tiempo closed. Cabo is more a bar with a limited selection of Mexican food, Tapatia is a taqueria, and Irma's is not even open nights or weekends. Closest place now is Ninfa's on Navigation I guess. Unless you count 9 Amigos at Minute Maid Park.

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El Centro is now open in the old Saba location. I had lunch there yesterday and it was pretty good. Still had food on my plate when I was done. Not cheap (my platter was about $10), but it was well prepared and still not as expensive as Cabo.

All in all, I think it may be able to compete with Jefe Grill. :lol:

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I tried it a little over a week ago. Wasn't too terribly impressed, I like some other places around downtown better for burgers. it wasn't bad, but to be honest, eating a burger to be healthy isn't my thing. The people were nice there though and I did like the fact they had a syrup machine to add to flavor to sodas. for example, I was able to turn my normal Dr Pepper into a cherry Dr. pepper. Price was slightly less than Beck's.

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  • The title was changed to Topz Healthy Burger

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