Figured I’d put this on the front page so it doesn’t get buried and lost in comments:
Way off topic, but any BJ folks in the Houston area?I’m coming to town at the end of the month for professional reasons. The place I’m going to be touring is on Rogerdale Rd (77072). While I’m there they want me to visit some neighborhoods so I need to book a hotel….ASAP! Where should stay?
A friend recommended the Westchase area?
So those of you in Houston, I’d appreciate it if you’d provide some information to lamh. And by appreciate, I mean I won’t come to Houston, once there’s a vaccine and it’s safe to come out, and personally ask you why you didn’t help out when given the chance…
We thank you for your support!
Open thread!
Josie
Posted this in the last thread. Here it is again from my daughter-in-law.
Houston Marriott Westchase is near there. Lots of hotels at a variety of price points on the beltway (W Sam Houston Parkway) there. The International District is just south of there with lots of East and South Asian food options — Kasra Persian Grill is delicious. The Energy Corridor with lots of oil and gas companies is just north of there. She should just google the address and search for nearby hotels; the reviews will help her avoid anything bad. Westchase has a lot of corporate visitors, lots of hotel options.
raven
One snippet from Bourdain on Huston. Catch it all if you can.
paper
Hampton has a place in Westchase that appears to be priced reasonably – 281-530-7776
Rileys Enabler
Hi Iamh! Welcome in advance to Houston. You’re coming at the hottest part of the year, but nothing that you haven’t already lived through in NOLA.
Rogerdale is on the cusp of our Chinatown area – so if you like Asian food, you’re in the right place. If you want to stay nearby, there are a range of Westchase hotels – LaQuinta, Holiday Inn – they are both safe, use your city smarts from NOLA and you’ll be fine. Not a lot in walking distance – you’ll definitely want a car if possible. If they’ll spend some $$, you’re not too far from 1-10, and Hotel ZaZa at Memorial City which is a super-fun stay – lots of restaurants nearby. Also the Westin is near there, across from Memorial City Mall if you enjoy shopping or indoor ice skating. Lots and lots of restaurants there. If you take I-10 East, you’ll hit the spendy 610/Galleria stretch, which has lots of big $$ hotels and the Galleria. Now – all of this is quite a bit outside the Downtown area, which is home to many great things to eat and see and do. I’ll give my email to Adam if you want info on specific neighborhoods / areas / things to do and see.
lamh36
I’m at work right now so I had to do a quick comment!
I’ll check back when I get home.
Thx Adam
Pupjoint
@lamh36: Rogerdale Rd runs parallel and .1mile west of Beltway 8 (Sam Houston Pkwy) between Westheimer and Westpark Tollway. In the narrow strip is full of Hotels and Suites:
Quality Inns-Westchase, Best Western Sites -Westchase, Red Roof Inn-Westchase, Sun Suites-Westchase, Extended Stay America Hotel- Westchase, Town Plaza Suites-Westchase.
Sorry, no Trump Hotel
Brachiator
I see mention of restaurants, shopping and indoor ice skating.
Is all of this available during the pandemic?
I don’t have to do much business travel these days. Are people staying in hotels ordering takeout? Are hotel restaurants generally still open?
Bluegrl21
@Josie: what Josie said. I work in Westchase and we have clients/coworkers in all of the time. You will be right in the middle of the most diverse area of the most diverse city in the U.S. (Yes, even more than NY, look it up.) Everything is open and masks are required; I was there yesterday. You will not go hungry.
MomDoc
Hi! Bluegrl21 beat me to it.
There are plenty of places to eat available — masks required. However, if you don’t have a car or don’t want to go into an establishment, the delivery services cover a lot of the local restaurants as well as the chain restaurants. So you will have options!
@Brachiator: This weekend, we have to take my son to Miami for college (Go ‘Canes!). We will be ordering meal delivery to the hotel for the entirety of our stay.
J R in WV
I spent a lot of time in Houston from late 1990s up to 2004, when my dad died on election day. There’s a lot to like about Houston, liberal town with Democratic leadership.
The food is amazing, from a wide variety of American styles of food, Tex-Mex, real Mexican, Asian foods of all sorts. We ate so well. My dad loved to take a big family crowd out to a really nice place to eat. So all our cousins, Dad’s nieces and nephews and great-nieces and g-nephews and children and grand children, all eating at a great ethnic place.
There’s great Louisiana style food in Houston, as just one of the many American styles of great food.
All that said, now that I have no family down in Houston, I very much doubt I will return there. People all move on…
Brachiator
@J R in WV:
I did a quick check on the current situation in Texas.
And the Houston Chronicle reports that the state is under counting cases.
Bottom line. If I were visiting Houston within the next few months, I would not dine in at any restaurant. I would order room service or takeout, depending on where I was staying.
So I guess I would try to choose lodgings near where I was doing business and which had some good eateries nearby.
Josie
@Brachiator:
This is good advice. I’m here with my son and his family, and we order in. We are just not ready to eat out anywhere no matter how careful they are.
Ohio Mom
My first reaction was, Wow! Enough Juicers in Houston for a “Welcome lamh! Meet-up” and then I remembered, we don’t do that sort of thing anymore.
All of you in Houston who have yet to meet aren’t going to be able to get together for at least another year (probably, maybe longer). I’m sad for you because our two Cincinnati meet-ups were great fun.
Kirk Spencer
So I’ll join the welcome wagon, but since I live in Olde Oaks, used to live in Greenspoint, and work in Northeast Houston I’m not going to give you useful local knowledge.
Except to point out that it’s considered normal to drive 30 miles each way per day – and you’re still “in town.”
I’m going to second planning to order delivery and eat in your room. Fortunately a large number of those really good restaurant recommendations are delivering.
(Aside for my fellow Houstonians. Once things are open again, Jin Korean BBQ. Provided you like Korean BBQ, I’ve not found one better in several places that /should/ be better. My ‘local’ is the one on 1960, but the one right there in the area we’re discussing is as good.)