kylejack

Okay, Little Dipper (new bar from Poison Girl people) is now open in the former Cava Bistro space (the second one, next door to the former Cielo Mexican Bistro/Pete's Dancing Marlin space). Dean's Credit Clothing has re-opened and has a cocktail list and a good beer list.

In the last year, we've got:

Clutch City Squire

OKRA

Pastry War

Goro & Gun

Little Dipper

Batanga

Fusion Taco

Barnaby's

Brewery Incubator

and Dean's closed and reopened.

What else has Tycer got his fingers in? Kraftsmen, and what else? I will be glad when the Tycer scourge is gone from Houston.

Crime, maybe.

The cookie smell seems to crank out of another building on the property, this one with the vents: https://maps.google.com/?ll=29.741317,-95.373484&spn=0.002087,0.004128&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=29.741243,-95.373541&panoid=y2JPftN7sk9jAIqVea62yw&cbp=12,346.73,,0,3.45

Yep, fortune cookie factory, Wonton Food Corp at Caroline and Anita. Very noticeable if you go to 13 Celsius wine bar across the street.

There's another fortune cookie factory that you can smell at Dunlavy and Fairview.

I would honestly rather move forward with Keenum even if there ends up being some cases where inexperience at NFL level causes him to make a mistake, because Schaub is just too predictable now. There will be ups and downs with a young guy, but Schaub seems more like certain doom.

110.6 QB rating on the game. That's higher than Schaub's best game of the season. Case should start. Period.

Against the second best defense in the NFL.

Yeah, Case played decent, but not well enough in my opinion to make it an easy decision for Kubiak. What do y'all think Kubiak will decide?

Easy decision. He demonstrated that he can throw deep and accurate, and that he's capable of scrambling when he needs to. That makes him a lot less predictable. Time to move on from Schaub.

Why do you keep using the word 'concern'? What's worth keeping about Randall's? Randall's has been surpassed in quality by various stores, and has always been expensive.

Samuel L. Jackson has released a statement in response to the news that Randall's is struggling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMGMZsKXz94#t=0m25s

A nice HEB is higher quality, more fresh store-made foods, and way way cheaper than Randall's. Randall's is rightly going the way of the Dodo.

Schaub's longest throw of the season is 32 yards, the worst of any starting QB in the NFL. Schaub has no mobility and is never a threat to run it himself. Even older guys like Drew Brees can run for a first down when they can't find a target. The teams the Texans play against know that Schaub will either hand it off or make a pass that's 30 yards or less. It allows them to camp out on his routes and pick off some interceptions.

Uhhh? I know they're independent businesses.

 

But i was assuming that the Wendy's closed because it wasn't keeping up with the current vision for that area. That whole area is changing and it seems that since Wendy's and McDonald's  are the same type of businesses, i was wondering why both of them couldn't remain.

If Wendy's was renting from a landlord then maybe they were pushed out by rising rents. If McDonald's franchise owner owns their property then they're not paying rent and can stay as long as they want provided they pay their taxes, regardless of what's appropriate for the area. There's plenty of factors we don't know.

Really that short.

And the 1 bed units are uncomfortably cramped.

Yeah I looked at them. The 1 bed plus den corner units seemed like a good size and sweet patios, but $$$ especially after the renovation.

Edit: Looks like they renovated out the dens to put in a dining room and they go for $1675+ now.

293 feet. http://www.emporis.com/building/houston-house-apartments-houston-tx-usa

I just choose not to go out for Mexican food when its a night out.  I can get good Mexican anywhere...I don't need to goto "upscale" Mexican food.  Its like "upscale" BBQ...its not better, it just costs more.

You said you doubt you'll ever go because of the policy.

Well Ive never been to it and b/c of the policy I doubt I ever will

The policy has no effect on you because it only prohibits children during a time you wouldn't take them anyway.

I've never even tried to eat out with my kids after 6pm.  My kids wake up at 5:30am, and goto sleep at 8.  Starting a dinner out after 6 with my kids would be a disaster and I would never do that to myself, or other diners.

Well then, I don't see why you wouldn't go to the restaurant as the policy only applies after 7 PM.

Well Ive never been to it and b/c of the policy I doubt I ever will....its not that the policy offends me, b/c it does not...its just that if I want a nice dinner out, I am sure as heck am not going out for mexican food....When I dine out without the kids I much prefer to goto places that serve food that I can't get at most other places I go regularly with kids...also while Im not a chef, or even a good cook, I am pretty capable of making good mexican food - so mexican food is pretty much my absolute last choice when out and about.

How late do you take 7 year olds to dinner?

They've added the blocks back on to the corners, and now a primer gray coat on most of the building.

Third Floor Bar has opened above Pub Fiction.

Boheme has draft and craft, fairly decent selection, mostly on that back patio bar.

I hope that retail makes it, but I wouldn't hold my breath.  Maybe a single convenience store could make it there.   Obviously if more residential (or even offices) pop-up over there, then maybe additional retail could survive.  

Combination convenience store and deli has been working in Houston House ground level for years now.

eh, its just good etiquette to carry cash when going bar hopping.   

I hate carrying cash and only do so if it's a cash only business.

I must have never got out of there cheaply enough to get hit by a credit card minimum...

Yeah, it's $10 I think. Just a PITA if you only want one drink before continuing somewhere else. Same thing at Leon's, which is too bad because Leon's is often on the way to somewhere else I'm going.

Zombie, Mai Tai, Scorpion, those are the types of drinks you'd find at a tiki bar. I don't think Under The Volcano even stocks orgeat. I see it as a Mexican bar. There's a lot of little Mexican cultural type of stuff in the design.

I like Under The Volcano, for the most part. Drinks are decent, though it can get a little packed, and credit card minimums really burn my biscuits.