HeightsGuy Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midtown_resident Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Shay McElroy's the place.I think Saba's pretty laid back as well, and St. Pete's is a nice, mature but not pretentious hangout, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midtown_resident Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Thanks TGH...Shay McElroy's is indeed the place. Very laid back...I enjoy grabbing a cigar from across the street and relaxing on their sidewalk patio at Shay's...on a friday night it's usually pretty good people watching... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Places that allow jeans include:Market Square/Franklin area:La CarafeWarrensTwelve SpotCaboOld Cotton Exchange BarBrewery TapOver by Commerce and main:Speak EasyMain:Live (sports bar)DeansSt. Petes Dancing MarlinF2SabaSlainteShay McElroy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeightsGuy Posted September 17, 2004 Author Share Posted September 17, 2004 Thanks for the replies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MontroseNeighborhoodCafe Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 -------------------This message has been edited to remove copyrighted material.Please do not post copyrighted photos or articles from newspapers or magazines. We have already received a warning from the Houston Chronicle, and the legal departments of other publications have visited the site. If you would like to discuss a published article, please summarize the article and provide a link to the original source.------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Hmm...could the former Enron building become the new Burger King HQ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssullivan Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 I hope they do move here, and they go downtown. No more major companies locating to the far suburbs until downtown's office buildings are filled back up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowbrow Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
111486 Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Then we could open up the largest urban design Burger King in the world. lol. Something like ATL did with Coco Cola. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 How about a 3-storey tall Burger King? Yumm.....burger king...Ricco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volvo99 Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Do we really need a fast food giant relocating to America's Fattest City? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowbrow Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Jobs r jobs r jobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovernorAggie Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Do we really need a fast food giant relocating to America's Fattest City?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hey, some of those Starbucks lattes will do you in faster than a Big Mac will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volvo99 Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt16 Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 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.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovernorAggie Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 I think that BK would be a major bonus if they moved here. It's another big company to move upper level management to the area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kzseattle Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 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.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 The city also did a piss poor job of getting Citgo to relocate here.<Insert rim shot> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonsemipro Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Burger King Headquarters will never happen. They said it might not leave South Florida after all. So please, don't get y'all hopes up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Give me burger king. I would hardly call a private multil-national; multi-billion dollar company a far-flung empire of burger franchises.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Yea but, that's exactly what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Burger King Headquarters will never happen. They said it might not leave South Florida after all. So please, don't get y'all hopes up.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Damit. Well, so much for bragging rights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skwatra Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 This sounds like a non-profit I will be supporting:http://blogs.houston...r_to_open_d.phpNew bar that will donate profits to a monthly voted on (by patrons) charity potentially to open in the old Red Hat Jaz Cafe location at 924 Congress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Yeah, I'm excited. That's a beautiful space. I spent a lot of time there in high school, when they'd let under 21 in if you paid a cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Great. Will this attract even more homeless to the area? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Great. Will this attract even more homeless to the area?No, and there are very few in this area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Interesting idea. Seems that many bars downtown can't manage enough proceeds to keep the doors open, hope they beat the odds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Interesting idea. Seems that many bars downtown can't manage enough proceeds to keep the doors open, hope they beat the odds.Clubs fail, but bars seem to be doing okay. Butterfly High was kind of half club half bar. It was replaced by a bar called Sunny's that seems to be doing okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatesdisastr Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 This should be a great addition. Can't wait to see it full and busy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrodiii Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 This is going to be awesome. Now if someone will start looking at the old St. Pete's place... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgriff Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Seems like it would be a good publicity stunt to declare that you are a non-profit, pay high enough wages to yourself and employees to make almost no profit and donate what's left to charity. I'm not saying that's what they're doing here but non-profit doesn't mean that no one is profiting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Seems like it would be a good publicity stunt to declare that you are a non-profit, pay high enough wages to yourself and employees to make almost no profit and donate what's left to charity. I'm not saying that's what they're doing here but non-profit doesn't mean that no one is profiting.Maybe, but I'm quite sure they'll be transparent about just how much money is donated to each charity at the end of each month. If the prices seem in line with other bars, I'm not really that bothered by this possibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totheskies Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Market Square is open now, and from what I've heard we need more bars in the area again. Isn't Hearsay doing pretty well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skwatra Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 (edited) Checked this place out last weekend. Decent crowd on Friday night, good drinks. Kept the historic building in tact, straightforward simple tables and a bar. 4 different charities you can vote for when you buy a drink. We'll see if they are public about how much, if any, they donate at the end of the month (I would think there is a high chance they wouldn't be profitable the first month). Edited January 14, 2013 by skwatra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Market Square is open now, and from what I've heard we need more bars in the area again. Isn't Hearsay doing pretty well?Yes, Hearsay finally got some good cocktails and seem to stay pretty busy now. Food menu hasn't changed much, but the quality seems more consistent now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 The Byrd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinite_jim Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 (edited) I took some out of town friends here last weekend. The drink menu is all u-call-its. It's still has a saloon feel to it and the space is nicely lit for a bar, esp considering the barrel vaulted ceiling is close to 20' high at apex. Edited January 14, 2013 by infinite_jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skwatra Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 They said they would be putting together a printed drink menu with options soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Happy hour 3-6:30 every day, $3 Wells, $3 beer, $5 Wine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Gonna try this place out this weekend I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 No, and there are very few in this area. LOL Tell that to the business owners who have to run them out of their establishments regularly after trying to sneak in to use the restrooms. As for OKRA Bar, I was surprised at some of the organizations that are vying for the month's proceeds. The Women's Shelter is a great option but David Crossley's Houston Tomorrow???? No thanks. That was a turnoff for me. As for the drinks, for happy hour prices they are barely acceptable, for regular prices they certainly are not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrodiii Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 As for the drinks, for happy hour prices they are barely acceptable, for regular prices they certainly are not. What were the HH prices? Not the $3 Wells, $3 beer, $5 Wine mentioned earlier? What was so unacceptable about their regular prices? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specwriter Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 As for HH prices it's hard for me to say. Is it still possible to get a $2 bottle of beer anymore? Even a 6-pack of Shiner at Spec's rings up at more than a buck per and that's with me toting them home and opening the bottle myself. Obvioulsly, a downtown or mid-town bar owner is going to have more overhead than a dive out on the Hempstead Highway. I paid $6 per glass for Stella the other day at a well-known establishment in the southwest part of town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 What were the HH prices? Not the $3 Wells, $3 beer, $5 Wine mentioned earlier? What was so unacceptable about their regular prices? Post happy hour, my jigger poured rum was $8. WAY too much for a drink that was 3/4 soda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 (edited) LOL Tell that to the business owners who have to run them out of their establishments regularly after trying to sneak in to use the restrooms. As for OKRA Bar, I was surprised at some of the organizations that are vying for the month's proceeds. The Women's Shelter is a great option but David Crossley's Houston Tomorrow???? No thanks. That was a turnoff for me. As for the drinks, for happy hour prices they are barely acceptable, for regular prices they certainly are not. Yeah, all my votes are going to HAWC this month. Edited February 21, 2013 by kylejack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downtownian Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 I've only lived in Houston and downtown for two years and I am amazed by the amount of change that has occurred on the restaurant / bar scene. When I moved here, OKRA was not even open / even hinted at. Since then there has been a number of successful openings and it's hard to keep up with the pace of change. I've also been very pleased with the quality of each opening - these establishments are nothing like the typical Midtown / Wash Ave bars where the bartenders do not even know what Campari is. Here are recent openings in no particular order:Prohibition (1008 Prairie). A burlesque event space in back (A beautifully restored theater. You would have no idea that it is in this building. Drop in and ask to take a look) but the front restaurant serves excellent lunch and dinner. Pricey with some entrees > $50. Absolutely worth checking out for the smoked fried chicken alone. Chef Ben McPherson.http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2014/06/27/foodie-friday-whos-cooking-up-restaurant-news-in.html?page=allMain Kitchen (806 Main). In the new JW Marriott. It's been discussed in the JW thread a lot so won't rehash it here. Chef Erin Smith.https://www.facebook.com/MainKitchen806Bombay Indian Grill (806 Main). Indian lunch buffet.http://bombaygrillhouston.com/Honeymoon Cafe (300 Main). Serves upscale sandwiches for lunch. Downtown's only good independent coffee shop. Always packed for lunch and surprisingly packed for Sunday brunch.http://thehoneymoonhtx.com/Springbok (711 Main). South African restaurant and sports bar serving lunch and dinner.http://www.springbokhouston.com/Nightingale Room (308 Main). Bar and live music space. I visited and the cocktails are high quality. Part of the Anvil mafia.https://www.facebook.com/NightingaleRoomPublic Services Wine and Whiskey (202 Travis). Run by the former Oxheart sommelier with interesting wines and whiskeys. It's in the restored / renovated Cotton Exchange building.http://publicservicesbar.com/New Hearsay Location (1516 Dallas) Also, looks like a formerly empty location on Main Street is taped over with the business named "Beef and Barley" and District 7 Grill is taking over an empty space that spans half a block at Main and Texas. There is some sports bar opening on Main as well. As MAB noted in another thread, a new BBQ restaurant set to open by Brian Caswell (Reef), Bill Floyd and Greg Gatlin (Gatlin's BBQ) is set to open in Q1 2015 on Jackson and Congress near Minute Maid Park. There is now a liquor store downtown called Posh Liquors (http://poshliquors.com/). Based on the name, I'm assuming they are trying for an upscale clientele base. All these join the first wave of restaurants (El Big Bad, Batanga, Fusion Taco) and first wave of bars (Captain Foxheart's Bad News Bar and Spirit Lounge, OKRA, Pastry War, Clutch City Squire, Little Dipper, Dean's Credit Clothing re-opening). Yes it would be nice to get a full service grocery, a Target and some retail downtown but I am so grateful for everything that has happened to downtown recently, that I have no absolutely no complaints. I also have nothing but optimism for further development as more residential opens. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 simply wonderful insight downtownian! spot on... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Let's not forget that a new papasitos went into the Hilton Americas and there is a new Pappas steakhouse going into the old strip house location. Oh, and of course, the MKT Bar has been around for a number of years and is always crowded with young, hip, urbanites (and a few old farts like me). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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