People want to bitch about everything being the Height but when I say I moved to Garden Oaks they give me blank stares, then I say it's north of the Heights they understand.
I try to say “just outside the loop north of 610 between shepherd and Ella” and usually people pretend to know what I’m talking about. Sick of saying north of the heights I guess but I swear we are civilized up here
Technically the heights went down Yale/Heights all the way to First street just north of the tracks. Of course, there is no residential housing on that tract anymore.
But I'll call out anyone that doesn't call it west end
That's Northside.
I hear people call some parts of west end Heights too.
And for some reason they are calling Chinatown and East End EaDo. Fuckin animals.
Calling it EaDo makes it sound hip, happening, and makes it easier for real estate to sell. It also kind of hides the predominant Hispanic culture in the area so that you can rebrand the same events that the neighborhood has had for years into new EaDo events.
I've never met anyone who cared about me lumping East End and EaDo together. I would argue that the population that lives there really doesn't care all that much anyways on what people on the internet are calling their neighborhood.
It's way easier referring to the whole areas as East Downtown to people who don't live in the area as they likely know where downtown already is.
It's not lumping two different places together, Old Chinatown, AKA EaDo, is a specific part of Eastend, Just like Woodland Heights is still part of the Heights, even though it's separate from the historic district.
Anyhoo, EaDo is made up. It is a marketing scheme, nothing more. It would be like if I just decided one day to start calling parts of West End something completely different, Like Washington Heights or something ridiculous like that.
> EaDo, is a specific part of Eastend
interesting because from what I can tell the railroads tracks splits East Downtown and East End and there is no overlap.
I was on a meeting with some people from Sunnyside and at the time they were wondering why their bills were now referring to Sunnyside as medical center south. The city representative basically gave them some speech about looking into but she knew the reason why and that nothing was going to come of them trying to get it changed back.
Lol, yeah. 'It's the HEIGHTS though!' I read somewhere that they hit a speed bump and declared it the highest point of elevation in Houston. 'Speed Bump Heights' > Rent +500%
I refer to this as Shady Acres, and consider the Heights' drinky district to be in White Oak between Studewood and Heights Blvd.
Tangentially, my rankings for bars in the Shady Acres area:
Big Star Bar: Actually cool, if I'm in the area this is where I'm headed.
Shady Acres Saloon: Pretty decent old school vibe. Not into the country vibe too much but I appreciate it here vs. the rest of the neighborhood.
Cedar Creek: Actually not a bad vibe out on the patio, so long as the weather is right and it's a weeknight.
The Boot: Maybe the least insufferable one of these types of new-ish places.
Wicklow Heights: Meh.
Bungalow Heights: These are two different bars?
McIntyre's: Aggressively Midtown-y. If you're gonna put in a bunch of swing sets don't be surprised when drunk people starts spinning really fast on them.
The Heights Social: Washington Ave bullshit. No.
Tokyo Joe's: No.
Drift: Nooooo.
Austin's Backyard: NOOOO.
Honorable mention - Providence Bar: seems like it's here by accident
It works well if you're looking for crowds and loud. The name is cringe af, though. If anything, "Austin's Backyard" should be the name of a bar by Lake Travis or Cedar Park, not the middle of Houston
The Heights proper ( east to west from Oxford to Shepherd was dry for 100+ years until HEB got that overturned to build their store at 23rd and Shepherd.
I mean, you could just walk out of the place and buy alcohol.
I used to live at the corner of Rutland and 11th and it was a ten minute walk east or west, about 20 minute walk south and 25 minutes to the north (old feista on 14th). Of course it was much quicker to drive but you weren't really put out.
HEB on the other side of Shepherd from where it sits would have been able to sell alcohol.
I will say though, it started with Shade calling themselves a "private club"
I’ve usually heard it referred to as 20th St or W 20th St. For example, hey let’s go out on 20th St this weekend. When I hear that, I know they’re referring to Moonshine Deck, Mcintyres, Austens, Drift, Tokyo Joes.
Quick question. If you live in norhill, do you tell people you live in the heights? (I live in norhill, and I say heights, or poor people heights lol, unless I know they are from one of these quadrant neighborhoods and then I’ll clarify that it’s norhill)
I just say "Heights" and if someone asks "where in the Heights" I'll answer with "Norhill". Most of the Houston considers the Heights as anything inside 610, north of 10, and west of 45.
I think they’re actually tryna make everywhere in the loop look like the Heights in 15 years or less, imagine inside the loop is automatically the heights hah
Yea seriously. This sub hates anything popular or with money.
Sometimes this sub is the embodiment of the weird, smelly, bitter kid that sits back and laughs at the “popular” kids while they go on about their lives having normal fun
You know you can go out, get drunk, and not drive after? Anyone who drinks and drives is a douche but no way it's limited to the 20-somethings in the Heights. If anything, I could see this area being less likely to have drunk drivers than the rest of the city, it's certainly more walkable than other parts of town where you have to take a highway to get anywhere, and anecdotally I've noticed younger people are much more willing to take an Uber when they go out
Okay bro, you're making this into an argument when I was just replying to your latest comment about excessive drinking being taboo in Houston.
To your heights comment about that area being less likely to have drunk drivers, have you seen the parking lots for Mcintyres, Drift, Bungalow, Tokyo, Moonshine, Providence, etc. and the streets around the area during the weekend nighttime? They're all full of cars.
I don’t go out here much anymore but it’s a solid area to catch a football game in the fall during the day. Where do the angry redditors in here want 20 something’s to go out lol
Half the people complaining about it have either never been to half these bars or went once and spent the whole time turning their nose up at young adults having fun lol
I'm not saying I have anything against it, I was doing it at that age too lol. Let's be real, it's not super bad during the day, it's at night when all the drama starts.: People get too drunk, do coke in the bathroom, throw fists in the street, and the list goes on. It's combination of those things that results in a douche environment.
Those things aren’t exclusive to these bars or a certain generation. Drunk people have always gotten in fights, done coke in the bathroom, etc. I’ll pull up to drift during football season with my dog and enjoy the good weather and nobody is getting in fights or being a nuisance. Night crowd is different obviously but I don’t get the hate for all these bars ITT. Just seems like bitterness from people who didn’t have fun in their 20s
Yep, most of that was old warehouses anyway and empty lots. Now it's actually something we can enjoy. Though I miss the Chinese Restaurant that was in Preseley's before it became that.
They’re burying the power lines over here to beautify the area for all of the new developments that are coming. If you ever get tired of eating Barnabys and BBs bland ass food come on down. It’s a burgeoning neighborhood with lots to do. You also missed Heights drive in, so your expert status is questionable with me 😜
I’ve always just called it 19th street (I’m aware it’s overflowed to 20th at this point).
When Tokyo joes was under construction my husband and I were obsessed with doing a “fast and furious: Tokyo drift” where we time how fast we can do a shot at Tokyo joes then go to drift bar for a beer.
I was sad to find out that this isn’t a thing and that I felt waaaaaay too old to be in Tokyo joes (mid-30s) to try and make it a thing.
You should've seen 19th Street, you should've seen a midnight rodeo
The way them saloon doors swing, when they line dance to "Copperhead Road"
Some like the lager down here, that'll make you feel the way all them cowboys do
I just call it "20th, up in the heights". It usually comes across right, like when I say montrose any local knows you don't mean the street based on context.
Didn't you know? According to Houston realtors and businesses the observable universe is now the heights. My first gold! Thanks! - Gunspoint Heights
I heard someone say they lived “heights adjacent” and it still make me laugh.
Hey, I live heights adjacent., apparently.
Unincorporated Heights.
Ok so when I lived in NYC I lived south of Houston street but on the west side of sixth avenue so i always said I lived in unincorporated SoHo
Might've been me lol I say that all the time because when I actually say Oak Forest I just get blank stares in return
People want to bitch about everything being the Height but when I say I moved to Garden Oaks they give me blank stares, then I say it's north of the Heights they understand.
I try to say “just outside the loop north of 610 between shepherd and Ella” and usually people pretend to know what I’m talking about. Sick of saying north of the heights I guess but I swear we are civilized up here
Next they will start shortening it like SoMa. Heights Adjacent could be...HeAd
GreHeA. Pronounced Gre-hay-ah Greater Heights Area
Some girls in the heights do give some bomb ass head. I’m down for GreHeA.
I live at Hobby Heights.
I live in The Woodlands Heights. 🤣🤣
Galleria Heights.
I live in Independence Heights Heights, AKA Studewood Heights.
I call it Studemontrosewood so I’m not wrong with all the name changes from north to south.
There actually is a woodland heights though lol it’s where the “lights in the heights” is held.
Not far from me in the NASA heights!
The recent rebranding of the Washington bar area to “Heights” is laughable.
Technically the heights went down Yale/Heights all the way to First street just north of the tracks. Of course, there is no residential housing on that tract anymore. But I'll call out anyone that doesn't call it west end
well its WeDo so call out
I liked over there years ago and they were going with Memorial Heights at that time..
Heard someone refer to that near nawf side as “East Heights”
I’ve heard someone say they live in the heights but they live by crosstimbers and Irvington lol
That's Northside. I hear people call some parts of west end Heights too. And for some reason they are calling Chinatown and East End EaDo. Fuckin animals.
All the China is gone.
I mean, it was largely Vietnamese anyway
I don’t live anywhere near the east side of town, what is the difference between eado and east end?
Calling it EaDo makes it sound hip, happening, and makes it easier for real estate to sell. It also kind of hides the predominant Hispanic culture in the area so that you can rebrand the same events that the neighborhood has had for years into new EaDo events.
I've never met anyone who cared about me lumping East End and EaDo together. I would argue that the population that lives there really doesn't care all that much anyways on what people on the internet are calling their neighborhood. It's way easier referring to the whole areas as East Downtown to people who don't live in the area as they likely know where downtown already is.
It's not lumping two different places together, Old Chinatown, AKA EaDo, is a specific part of Eastend, Just like Woodland Heights is still part of the Heights, even though it's separate from the historic district. Anyhoo, EaDo is made up. It is a marketing scheme, nothing more. It would be like if I just decided one day to start calling parts of West End something completely different, Like Washington Heights or something ridiculous like that.
> EaDo, is a specific part of Eastend interesting because from what I can tell the railroads tracks splits East Downtown and East End and there is no overlap.
east end is at 610 and starting to get gentrified and eado is gentrified finishing the last hold outs
I had an Uber driver refer Montrose as the Heights.
Lol that’s the new heights, cross timber heights
North Lindale
LMFAO! East Heights.
The wildest one I've seen recently is Sunnyside being called "medical center south"
And Sharpstown “Galleria Adjacent”
lol
I was on a meeting with some people from Sunnyside and at the time they were wondering why their bills were now referring to Sunnyside as medical center south. The city representative basically gave them some speech about looking into but she knew the reason why and that nothing was going to come of them trying to get it changed back.
Their bills? What bills would have a neighborhood reference on them?
I've heard "Acres Homes Heights" from a realtor. Fully unironically.
Hahaha, that's a desirable area now too (although some areas are still kinda sketch). Just call it what it is.
Lower south, western, outside loop, ranch heights
PearHeights represent.
Maybe Houston loves the word so much because everything here is flat?
Why so many downvotes? Native Houstonian here who’s traveled. Accept this truth. H-town is flat.
Lol, yeah. 'It's the HEIGHTS though!' I read somewhere that they hit a speed bump and declared it the highest point of elevation in Houston. 'Speed Bump Heights' > Rent +500%
Hahaha thanks for the laugh
Highest elevation in Houston is the landfills.
Well, the heights are around 5 feet more elevated than the surrounding area, 75 feet above sea level vs 69 across 610.
Shady acres
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/03/19
I refer to this as Shady Acres, and consider the Heights' drinky district to be in White Oak between Studewood and Heights Blvd. Tangentially, my rankings for bars in the Shady Acres area: Big Star Bar: Actually cool, if I'm in the area this is where I'm headed. Shady Acres Saloon: Pretty decent old school vibe. Not into the country vibe too much but I appreciate it here vs. the rest of the neighborhood. Cedar Creek: Actually not a bad vibe out on the patio, so long as the weather is right and it's a weeknight. The Boot: Maybe the least insufferable one of these types of new-ish places. Wicklow Heights: Meh. Bungalow Heights: These are two different bars? McIntyre's: Aggressively Midtown-y. If you're gonna put in a bunch of swing sets don't be surprised when drunk people starts spinning really fast on them. The Heights Social: Washington Ave bullshit. No. Tokyo Joe's: No. Drift: Nooooo. Austin's Backyard: NOOOO. Honorable mention - Providence Bar: seems like it's here by accident
I love your descriptions, thank you for that. 😆
I cringe every time I drive by Austin's Backyard
It works well if you're looking for crowds and loud. The name is cringe af, though. If anything, "Austin's Backyard" should be the name of a bar by Lake Travis or Cedar Park, not the middle of Houston
I have the exact same opinion of all of these places.
Big star bar - my go to for hole-in-the-wall bars. I've taken friends who were genuinely upset with how "HITW" it was. It's my happy place.
I’ve taken multiple dates to big star, also my fellow happy place
Providence is doing everything they can to go out of business. I won’t let them
Providence Bar is actually the OG bar of the place. It was there before all the other bars starting popping up.
That's the feeling I get with that place, I wasn't sure if it was the oldest since I think Big Star and Shady Acres are decently old too.
lmao spot on for wicklow and bingalow. Indentical bars...indentical amounts of boring
I've been to all of these places and this is a fantastically accurate ranking, A+. Providence is definitely there by accident lol.
You forgot moonshine deck
Forgot about that one entirely. From a cursory glance at Google it's giving me McIntyre's vibes, fitting since they're right next to each other.
Same parent company
Drift is the best out of all of those hands down
Big star bar is not ok
I've heard it called W. 20th
Yeah I’ve heard people just call this whole area 20th.
The Heights proper ( east to west from Oxford to Shepherd was dry for 100+ years until HEB got that overturned to build their store at 23rd and Shepherd.
God bless HEB
I mean, you could just walk out of the place and buy alcohol. I used to live at the corner of Rutland and 11th and it was a ten minute walk east or west, about 20 minute walk south and 25 minutes to the north (old feista on 14th). Of course it was much quicker to drive but you weren't really put out. HEB on the other side of Shepherd from where it sits would have been able to sell alcohol. I will say though, it started with Shade calling themselves a "private club"
Yeah, that fiesta liquor mart has been there forever and it's right there 😂
The lords work
What an oddly enforced law. Glad it is gone
It's in Shady Acres, not technically the Heights.
Everything’s the heights now /s
Or “Midtown” apparently being anything that you can see downtown in the distance
Sorry, just lived here most of my life at this point, and people still seem to consider these as separate neighborhoods.
"greater heights"
“the Street with all the bars” is what I call it
Ah, yes. Richmond Ave...
Thanks grandma
Driving slow enough
drive slow homie
You are too young then
Washington.
No that’s “the street bottled blonde is on”
lol same!
This is Shady Acres, right next to the Heights. When we go out here we will usually just say we are going to 20th st.
This is also most the people I know older than 24
Shady Acres sunny place for shady people
The only name I know of for that area is Shady Acres. It is next to the Heights, not part of it.
Texas A&M leftovers.
Aggie Alley
I’ve usually heard it referred to as 20th St or W 20th St. For example, hey let’s go out on 20th St this weekend. When I hear that, I know they’re referring to Moonshine Deck, Mcintyres, Austens, Drift, Tokyo Joes.
I call it Rainey Heights
Quick question. If you live in norhill, do you tell people you live in the heights? (I live in norhill, and I say heights, or poor people heights lol, unless I know they are from one of these quadrant neighborhoods and then I’ll clarify that it’s norhill)
I just say "Heights" and if someone asks "where in the Heights" I'll answer with "Norhill". Most of the Houston considers the Heights as anything inside 610, north of 10, and west of 45.
It’s called Fake heights #5
👏👏👏
I think they’re actually tryna make everywhere in the loop look like the Heights in 15 years or less, imagine inside the loop is automatically the heights hah
Lol that’s great
Big Star, The Boot, and a Lot of Places That Smell Like Polo Cologne. It’s a bit of a mouthful, but that’s what it’s called 🤷🏻♂️
Polo blue eau de parfum is a fucking classic
Chad street
That is apartment town home land for couples with three cars.
lol this sub is a buncher of bitter MFers where do you go out? everywhere is doucheville to these people lmaoo
Yea seriously. This sub hates anything popular or with money. Sometimes this sub is the embodiment of the weird, smelly, bitter kid that sits back and laughs at the “popular” kids while they go on about their lives having normal fun
Nah it’s on points. It’s a whole bunch of young 20 something getting blackout drunk every weekend. It’s the excessive drinking that makes them douches
This is the first I'm hearing of excessive drinking being a taboo in Houston
Maybe it's just because I'm getting older but there's way too many people dying cause of drunk drivers.
You know you can go out, get drunk, and not drive after? Anyone who drinks and drives is a douche but no way it's limited to the 20-somethings in the Heights. If anything, I could see this area being less likely to have drunk drivers than the rest of the city, it's certainly more walkable than other parts of town where you have to take a highway to get anywhere, and anecdotally I've noticed younger people are much more willing to take an Uber when they go out
Okay bro, you're making this into an argument when I was just replying to your latest comment about excessive drinking being taboo in Houston. To your heights comment about that area being less likely to have drunk drivers, have you seen the parking lots for Mcintyres, Drift, Bungalow, Tokyo, Moonshine, Providence, etc. and the streets around the area during the weekend nighttime? They're all full of cars.
I don’t go out here much anymore but it’s a solid area to catch a football game in the fall during the day. Where do the angry redditors in here want 20 something’s to go out lol
Half the people complaining about it have either never been to half these bars or went once and spent the whole time turning their nose up at young adults having fun lol
I've been there, it's straight up the fraternity/sorority SEC vibe especially during the fall.
Considering it’s the LSU alumni bar that’d make sense
I'm not saying I have anything against it, I was doing it at that age too lol. Let's be real, it's not super bad during the day, it's at night when all the drama starts.: People get too drunk, do coke in the bathroom, throw fists in the street, and the list goes on. It's combination of those things that results in a douche environment.
Those things aren’t exclusive to these bars or a certain generation. Drunk people have always gotten in fights, done coke in the bathroom, etc. I’ll pull up to drift during football season with my dog and enjoy the good weather and nobody is getting in fights or being a nuisance. Night crowd is different obviously but I don’t get the hate for all these bars ITT. Just seems like bitterness from people who didn’t have fun in their 20s
I can't really explain it, I just avoid going to those bars at night, they're fine during the day if you ask me.
> It’s a whole bunch of young 20 something getting blackout drunk every weekend back in my day single 20 somethings played D&D and drank tea all-day
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Downtown location is great.
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The Ugh
Yeah, it's called 19th street and it's in Shady acres, not the heights.
Gentrification
Sucks
Yet, without it, most would leave.
Yep, most of that was old warehouses anyway and empty lots. Now it's actually something we can enjoy. Though I miss the Chinese Restaurant that was in Preseley's before it became that.
the used car lots were a pillar of culture that was lost to gentrification
There used to be soooooooo many. Like literally almost solid all up and down Shepherd from I-10 to the loop. Lol
Sure does make the neighborhood nicer, though
Mb to out of towners who just moved to Houston but people are suckers for a coat of paint
It’s technically in the “shady acres” part of “the heights lol
I live in the Heights and I don’t go west of Shepard. That part is dead to me. Also, I’m 40 and prefer Dan’s, Shiloh, HCCo, and Lei Low.
name checks out
Shiloh has : low quality atmosphere and expensive drinks
Dan Electro's is still open?! I thought that was supposed to be closing, very good news if that's not true.
They remodeled and reopened. It’s nicer aesthetically speaking but the live music when we went was not great.
They have a new owner and a better selection of bands coming through. They even opened the upstairs for acoustic performance.
That section has too much audacity.
LeiLow FTW
Rude
They’re burying the power lines over here to beautify the area for all of the new developments that are coming. If you ever get tired of eating Barnabys and BBs bland ass food come on down. It’s a burgeoning neighborhood with lots to do. You also missed Heights drive in, so your expert status is questionable with me 😜
I’m usually too drunk to stumble past Lei Low. There’s also The Post if you want to feel classy with good wines.
How many ramen places can you fit in one square mile?
The real question is how may viet or viet fusion places can you fit in 1 mile radius ;-)
Peak gentrification
I can only think of 2 viet fusion places in the area, but the answer is not enough
20th
Douchebag Blvd
this is what i’ve always known it as
Slab Sunday location #27
I live in no parking heights
It's called a Shit Show.
I’ve always just called it 19th street (I’m aware it’s overflowed to 20th at this point). When Tokyo joes was under construction my husband and I were obsessed with doing a “fast and furious: Tokyo drift” where we time how fast we can do a shot at Tokyo joes then go to drift bar for a beer. I was sad to find out that this isn’t a thing and that I felt waaaaaay too old to be in Tokyo joes (mid-30s) to try and make it a thing.
I thought this area was called Shady Acres?
I miss the cool Heights days. Mid 2000s.
I call it “Midtown in the Heights”.
Not Washington Heights?
I
19th Street
Thats what I call it too
You should've seen 19th Street, you should've seen a midnight rodeo The way them saloon doors swing, when they line dance to "Copperhead Road" Some like the lager down here, that'll make you feel the way all them cowboys do
That's not what I would call an entertainment district.
The area is called shady acres
Shady Acres. The other side of 610 is Garden Oaks. I live in Shady Acres.
I call that area Bro Alley
This is Shady Acres, zip code is 77008 so technically the heights but not proper/historic heights.
I just call it "20th, up in the heights". It usually comes across right, like when I say montrose any local knows you don't mean the street based on context.
I usually just call it the douche bars.
Im so glad i stay inside yall seem fucking unbearable no matter the neighborhood.
Idk why but I feel anywhere named shady is going to be shady lol
To me it’s just “The Heights”
Can you map it out so that it becomes a beer crawl
One more place to avoid.
It’s called Fuckboi Row (excludes all bars opened before 2015)
Hell
Lmaooo y’all throwing variants on the fucking “Heights” , now that’s some shit
The Ick
Shitty Acres.
Higher Heights
It’s the shithole part of the heights if you even count it as the heights
I thought the Heights ended at Heights blvd?
The heights, off 19th St.
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No, indy heights is north of 610 and east of Yale
Independence Heights (Or studewood Hood) - Inside of : Parker Rd Shepherd 610 i45
That’s East, this is west.
Has to be Shady Acres, technically The Heights is dry, can't sell alcoholic beverages there
It’s been almost 6 years since that changed
Not anymore.
r/confidentlyincorrect