After watching the US v. Mexico match here are a couple of spots you might want to hit. The Rice Village is abundantly full of bars Bronx Bar Brian Oneal's BW 3's Baker St. Pub and the list goes on and on. I recommend this area for being so close to Reliant and easily accessible after the game Downtown is more trendy clubs and bars but if your into that be my guest. I would personally recommend Cecils on W. Grey & Taft (Mid-Town)and Richmond Arms on Richmond & Fountainview(Uptown). These are local hole in the wall bars but highly recommended, especially Arms for all true footballers Lots of cool places to chill after the match.
PRE POST Match in HOUSTON???? Is anything being organized for PRE and POST Match in OIL TOWN? I'm coming from Frisco and would like to tip a few with fellow fans from other regions. Some knowledgeable folks have suggested RICE VILLAGE for its many pubs and grubs. Perhaps some seasoned SAM's REgulars can take the reins here and pull a rallying point together.
Re: PRE POST Match in HOUSTON???? The only thing I've seen anywhere is at the Sam's Army site, which says "Tailgating: Sam's Army will meet in the 'blue' parking lot beginning at 4PM. Bring your own food and beverage for this one. When arriving to the stadium on the South Loop 610, exit Kirby and enter the 'blue' parking lot. The stadium sits right off the interstate so you can't miss it." http://www.sams-army.com/index.php?Mlist=event&Mid=33 I guess "Blue Lot" it is.
Richmond Arm's is a great place for a true footballing crowd. Baker St. Pub is a great place as well in the Rice Village. Those are the 2 places I would recommend. Anyone in the 20something crowd that is looking for some Houston women during the evening should check out the Grasshopper downtown. Pretty trendy place with tons of single women. Also...if you're staying in town over the weekend, Houston's local microbrew (St. Arnold's) has tours at 1pm on Saturdays. These are FREE tours with FREE beer. Also, Check out Lupe Tortillas. There's a location off of I45 near Bush/IAH Airport. Amazing Beef Fajitas. I'd say they're the best in Houston. Just a few suggestions.
Very easy to get to from Reliant Stadium. If coming from Reliant, just head north on Kirby (that's the street just west of the stadium) and take a right on University. The bars are about two blocks down. The Rice Village bars (and those on Bissonnet a few blocks north) are a lot more laid back than the trendster places downtown or the cheesefests out on Richmond (except for the Richmond Arms of course). If you're staying the weekend, the Richmond Arms is the place to catch live Premier League games.
Welcome to Tejas y'all Bronx Bar takes a while to get a beer from the bar, O'Neils is very good and so is Baker's Street. O'neils is more soccer friendly then the others IMHO. All three are right next to each other. I would suggest that anyone interested after the big match head to this area called Rice Village. Its a straight shot south on Kirby, under Hwy 59, past the light at Bissonett and then left on Rice. The whole area is shopping centers, Bars and parking. C y'all out
It's a pretty trendy place. Gotta have some slacks and a nice shirt or so..... For 30somethings, I'd suggest the Sambuca Lounge...its a laid back jazz cafe. Nicer, casual atmosphere for the 30something crowd, but there's plenty of 20something women looking for 30something men that hang out there. http://www.sambucajazzcafe.com/
from the Mercury Room to Valhalla... Downtown is supertrendy these days. You can fit in just fine if you're thirtysomething, but you still gotta be into the scene thing and dress the part. If so, then, in addition to Grasshopper, you should check out The Mercury Room. It sets the standard for the downtown scene. You can probably hang out comfortably in the downstairs bar at Grasshopper if you're dressed casually, at least early in the evening, but Mercury Room is a little more serious about the upscale scene thing. But I don't know how it looks on a Thursday night. If you want more laid-back, casual thing, then the suggestions about the Rice Village area offered above are great options. In addition, I'd strongly recommend the Gingerman. It probably has the largest and best draft beer selection in town and also a huge bottled beer selection. They have front and back patios that are great for just hanging out, but may get a little crowded. Definitely not a trendy scene - lotsa local residents, Rice students and alums, Med Center folks and the like. It'll probably get a little crowded even a on Thursday, bit mostly with regulars. Btw, Gingerman, Baker Street, Bronx Bar, O'Neill's, and Woodrow's are all on a block of Morningside, between University and Rice Blvds in the Rice Village, near the University Blvd side. From Reliant Park, take Kirby or Greenbriar north, pass Holcombe, you'll then hit University Blvd. If you're on Kirby, turn right (east), and you'll be in the Rice Village. Morningside is a couple blocks east. If you're on Greenbriar, turn left (west). Morningside will be the first light. Also near the Village, but not on the stretch of Morningside as the other bars: Kay's Lounge - on Bissonnet, between Morningside and Greenbriar; very old school dive populated by generally the same crowd as the Gingerman, plus regulars who have been coming for years; smaller beer selection, but great jukebox (very heavy on the Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, plus stuff like Bob Wills - if you know who Bob Wills is, then this is your dive), foosball table, pool table, very, very laid back. Timber Wolf Pub - on Bissonnet, near Kirby, between Kirby and Morningside; big front patio; great draft beer selection, maybe even more than the Gingerman; maybe a slightly younger crowd, but I wouldn't call it trendy; still fairly laid back. If you're really, really into the off the beaten track approach, there's always Valhalla. It's the Rice graduate student bar, but everyone's always welcome. They have a limited, but decent beer selection, with two taps at 65 cents a cup (that's plastic cup) and one at $1.50 a cup (which is also the same price as their bottled beers). They get the expected grad student crowd, plus alums, local residents, and long-time regulars who are too cheap to actually pay more than a dollar for beer. The undergrads go to another bar on campus (Rice has two on-campus bars ).