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  • 13 Celsius Wine Bar
    [Map]
    3000 Caroline
    Houston, TX 77004
    713-529-8466
    http://www.13celsius.com
    Over off a sleepy part of Caroline in Midtown, 13 Celsius is the mellow, sensible anecdote to the other fiery, wiry wine bars across town. The place wears its low-key rep like a badge of honor, serving wine and champagne with a working-class charm rarely seen in other vino joints. There are plush couches throughout for quiet conversation and reflection, and a cozy patio in the middle to accommodate folks who wouldn’t mind some stars and smoke to go with their Cabernet. Sunday nights most glasses of the fermented stuff are half-price, making it also a hella thrifty late weekend date-night venue. A variety of decadent cheeses and sandwiches are available to pair with your poison of choice.
  • Eighteen Twenty Bar
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    1820 Franklin
    Houston, TX 77002
    713-224-5535
    Located only a couple blocks from Minute Maid Park at the corner of Franklin and Hamilton, Eighteen Twenty is a nice spot for a pregame drink minus the roar of most sports bars. Small flat-screen TVs dot the bar, allowing patrons to keep tabs on games while not being the center of attention. This isn’t the place for screaming sports nuts, this is more the place for friends to kick back in the black leather chairs and discuss the game in a civil manner. If you’re lucky, they’ll open the doorway to Joystix Classic Games and Pinball next door and you can practice your Ms. Pac-man skills.
  • Khon's
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    2808 Milam
    Houston, TX 77006
    The best little coffeehouse and wine bar off lower Milam, Khon’s is perfect for an after-work bottle or pint of beer to decompress before you head homeward. It’s been hopping for about the past year, and just recently starting hosting live music, including this past December’s inaugural “Lost In Space” music festival. There’s room on the roof for the stray gig, with the nearby downtown skyline framing the action. The bar inside serves wine and beer only, with a selection of ales that veers towards a more discriminating palate, forgoing the tried-and-true simplicity of, say, a Miller Lite. Keen artwork from various local painters and designers is always on display, and the bartender is forever spinning vintage garage and psych-rock to set the mood.
  • 6th Street Bar and Grill
    [Map]
    2701 White Oak
    Houston, TX 77007
    713-880-5999
    Directly across the street from Fitzgerald's, the Sixth Street Bar and Grill is highlighted by a large front deck, where you can safely gander at the intersection's sprawl. The modest interior has a nice long bar, plenty of tables and six high-def screens tuned to the night’s sporting event. Over a dozens brews are on tap, some of which are included in the daily specials, though they also have a fine selection of liquors and wine.
  • A+
    [Map]
    1117 Prairie
    Houston, TX 77002
    832-200-8888
    http://www.aldenhotels.com/aplus
    Though this bar is located on the first floor of the Alden Hotel (formerly known as the Sam Houston Hotel), don't think it's some generic lounge you'd find in a Ramada. Mixing sleek contemporary furniture with a classy gold trim and a solid oak bar, this is the über-lounge for the young, bold and beautiful. The easygoing crowd is a mix of both hotel guests and downtown hipsters, and the staff has friendly cocktail waitresses and bartenders, making the posh space inviting. It serves as a great chill-out spot, whether for catching up with co-workers for happy hour or meeting up with friends before a wild night of dancing. The music is mostly lounge music and acid jazz, but its volume is set at a level where you can converse with friends without having to raise your voice. Plus, you won't ever have to hear a kitschy standards ensemble.
  • Absinthe
    [Map]
    609 Richmond
    Houston, TX 77006
    713-528-7575
    http://www.absinthelounge.com
    If you think you'll be able to quaff a couple of the notorious “green fairies” of van Gogh and Gauguin infamy before painting your masterpiece, you've got another drink coming. Housed in a former wash-and-fold launderette, this hard-to-locate brasserie is the picture of civility. An older, docile crowd inhabits this roomy, albeit occasionally packed venue. Surprisingly excellent homemade pizzas serve as a nice respite from the usual bar fare, and the clean tile floors and a tasteful decor add a touch of class to a ramshackle stretch of lower Richmond.
  • Agora
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    1712 Westheimer
    Houston, TX 77098
    713-526-7212
    http://www.agorahouston.com
    The two-story Agora is our favorite place to crack open a bottle of Merlot and sink into a couch after a hard day of existence. The wine and beer selection straddles the line between happily obscure and wholly random. Chances are you will find your new favorite here and never change. The layout is perfect for couples and those studying or needing to catch up on school or office work. It's quiet, but the jukebox has everything from The Clash to Tom Waits.
  • Al's Sports Bar
    [Map]
    16203 Westheimer
    Houston, TX 77082
    281-493-9797
    http://www.alsbar.com
    The name pretty much says it all. A mind-blowing 15-foot TV screen ensures you won’t miss any of the heavy broadcast-event action (even if part of you wouldn’t mind), and a selection of big-game video concessions leaves no shortage of chances to sort out the alphas from the betas — there’s even one of those plush-animal-grabbing machines so you don’t lose touch with your softer side.
  • Anvil Bar & Refuge
    [Map]
    1424 Westheimer
    Houston, TX 77006
    713-523-1622
    http://anvilhouston.com
    Anvil Bar & Refuge is a throwback to a time just decades ago where slinging booze and liquor was an art, and the folks behind the counters had an almost religious devotion to their pours. You won't see one of the four bartenders sticking a plastic nozzle of carbonated generic soda in your glass, topping it off with hobo swill and charging you six bucks. What you will get is four main bartenders, who built the bar themselves, using three kinds of ice and pouring spirits the likes not seen since before Prohibition into antique glasses, filled with freshly squeezed mixers. Shots are frowned upon, and an open mind is applauded. Seriously, don't ask for anything with the word "bomb" or "slut" in its name.
  • Armadillo Palace
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    5015 Kirby
    Houston, TX 77098
    713-526-9700
    http://www.thearmadillopalace.com
    Stay all night at this saloon, a salute to all things Texas and the latest addition to über-Texan Jim Goode’s Rice Village-area restaurant/bar empire. Unlike at his other joints, the food, though excellent, takes a back-seat to drinks from the full bar and the Texas music from the stage, and there’s pool and other bar games, too. Vintage Texana is festooned upon all the walls, and best of all, there’s an enormous, smoke-breathing, red-eyed armadillo out front. Tip your hat to him on your way in and get ready to thank your lucky stars you’re in Texas.
  • AvantGarden
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    411 Westheimer
    Houston, TX 77004
    832-519-1429
    http://www.avantgardenhouston.com
    Some nights it’s an indie boho fashion show. Other nights it can be a quiet acoustic venue with candles flickering from an open window. Millions of scenes ago AvantGarden was called the Mausoleum, and then the converted house went through a variety of structural and aesthetic changes to become the folkie playground it is today. Local artists like Sara Van Buskirk routinely pack the house with their strummy acoustic jangle, as listeners sip Shiners or Merlot. The front yard and patio is a mass of smoky rockers and their women conversing about their next projects, while watching the giddy masses make their way to their various weekend haunts.
  • Baker St. Pub & Grill
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    5510 Morningside
    Houston, TX 77005
    713-942-9900
    http://www.sherlockspubco.com
    Located in the heart of Rice Village's drunkards paradise stands Baker St. Pub in all its generic boozing glory. The weekend starts on Thursday nights here, which makes it the perfect opening act for your evening in the Village. There's a ton of strange exotic beers on tap if good ol' Miller doesn't do it for you anymore. One thing that's good about bigger bars such as this is that you won't find yourself waiting too long for a drink, a common problem at other, swankier joints.
  • Beer Island
    [Map]
    2631 White Oak
    Houston, TX 77007
    713-862-4670
    http://www.myspace.com/beerisland
    Beer Island is a converted gas station that has a fantastic outdoor patio filled with beer-swigging men and wine-sipping ladies listening to standard rock and roll hits. Thursdays offer a killer steak-and-potato special as well as super-cheap Red Stripe. If you don't want to sit under the tiki torches out in the open air, lounge in the small beach-themed lounge to the right of the bar, filled with surfboards, water skis and inner tubes hanging on the walls. If you get stranded on Beer Island, rest assured you won't die of thirst.
  • Belvedere
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    1131 Uptown Park Blvd.
    Houston, TX 77056
    713-552-9271
    http://www.belvedereinfo.com
    One thing’s for sure about this gaudy watering hole: If you belong here, you’ll know it sooner rather than later. This trendy Uptown Park hot spot is the logical spawn of The Social, which has the same owners. Well-to-do thirtysomething revelers smoke cigars and rehash the vicissitudes of the stock market during the early evening, but as the shadows lengthen, the already-generous drinks begin to appear more copious and the workaday scene devolves into the predictable “Come here often?” landscape. Also, for you Jehovah’s Witnesses, beware that hidden cameras snap photos of patrons that are then displayed on a larger screen behind the bar. It’s like those cameras that used to embarrass you at AstroWorld, but without all the mullets.
  • The Big Easy
    [Map]
    5731 Kirby
    Houston, TX 77005
    713-523-9999
    http://www.thebigeasyblues.com
    Modeled after the blue-collar social and pleasure clubs that dot New Orleans, the Big Easy brings some down-to-earth charm and soul to one of Houston's most off-puttingly high-toned areas. The focus here is on local blues and zydeco artists, the living legends from Houston's heyday as one of the country's top blues towns, and the club's high volume level and physical intimacy offer patrons the chance to put these titans under a visual and aural microscope.
  • Big John's Sports Bar & Grill
    [Map]
    6150 Wilcrest
    Houston, TX 77072
    281-498-3499
    http://www.bigjohnsbar.com
    This place is one giant rec room, and we mean that in a good way. Scoot around on the rolling miniature armchairs to get a better view of the continuous banks of various-sized TVs, play darts or pool, watch digital Centipede bravely take on digital Millipede, or just let the appetizers and beer flow like, well, appetizers and beer. Arrive early enough and you can head for the back to splay out on the comfy couch, just like at Mom’s house. All this under the benevolent gaze of a towering cardboard cutout of Big John Wayne himself. Ya heard me right, pilgrim.
  • Big Star Bar
    [Map]
    1005 W. 19th
    Houston, TX 77008
    281-501-9560
    Big Star is located about a mile from a bustling section of W. 19th, on the seedier north end of the Heights, where the real estate teeters between housing and industrial buildings. Chances are that if you can clearly remember leaving Big Star at the end of the night, you didn't actually have a good time at Big Star. Most evenings start out innocent enough, that is until someone plays The Stooges' Raw Power on the bar's stellar jukebox and things start getting thrown in the fire pit outside.
  • Blanco's Bar & Grill
    [Map]
    3406 W. Alabama
    Houston, TX 77027
    713-439-0072
    Sprawling over a couple of acres of prime River Oaks real estate is this anomaly, a bona fide Texas dance hall. Every Thursday and Friday (another oddity about Blanco’s is that it’s always closed on Saturday), the rustic-looking room is transformed into a sea of Stetsons, under which rowdy, back-slapping Shiner- and Lone Star-fueled locals can be found getting their boot-scoot on. Don’t expect to hear any Tim McGraw or Kenny Chesney clones here. In fact, don’t even mention their names unless you attach an expletive. This place is as Texas-centric as the Alamo gift shop.
  • Blue Label Lounge
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    4500 Washington
    Houston, TX 77007
    713-861-9910
    http://www.bluelabellounge.com
    The problem with most of the trendy joints off Washington isn't just the requisite valet and terse velvet-rope hassles, it's the lack of innate individuality. Blue Label Lounge is hella pretty inside, with plenty of plush mod couches and a soothing aqua-oriented theme. The sticking point here is that dearth of uniqueness, which may or may not be an issue with the crowd that populates the place. The alcohol pour here varies from heavy to light, but you can always count on a packed and Prada-d smokers club on the patio looking out onto Washington. The soundtrack is auto-tune to the nth degree, but that doesn't matter after you've partaken in their reasonable bottle service.
  • Blur
    [Map]
    710 Pacific
    Houston, TX 77006
    713-529-3447
    http://www.blurbar.com
    Nestled off Pacific Street in Montrose, with South Beach and JR's just around the corner, sits the unassuming two-story Blur Bar. The outside almost looks like your Grandma's house, but you know what they say about looks. The first floor of the club`is pure motion, with two poles for pretty young things (boys and girls) shimmy to the club's mostly hip-hop and electro playlist. It's dark and smoky, with a thick mass of humanity in the middle. Upstairs and downstairs respectively have plenty of tucked-away booths and couches for conversation and otherwise.
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