Re: Houston TX USA 2024 - Stones travel and show info
Date: April 27, 2024 16:15
Just want to encourage anyone in town with any sort of interest in art to visit the Menil Collection, one of the better small museums in America, including the Dan Flavin installation out back, among other satellite sites like the Rothko Chapel.
The surrounding mostly-residential neighborhood is pretty nice, and you're a short walk from The Pit Room, supposed to be one of the better bbq joints in town these days, where I'd opt for the patio, while Goode Co., a local institution, is a bit further East on Kirby Dr.
The axis of the Rice University campus, Hermann Park, and the Museum District is also a nice walk.
Downtown is kind of weirdly empty - everyone walks around in the indoor tunnel system between office buildings, though the Arts Center's recently-renamed Lynn Wyatt Square may draw some civic life - but the view from Sam Houston Park is worthwhile, and you can get rib-sticking Tex-Mex at Ninfa's on Navigation, or good bbq at J-Bar-M East of Downtown.
Midtown, on the trolley line between downtown and the Museum District, and just East of the Montrose district that surrounds the Menil, isn't a big destination, but in addition to a little African-American-centric cultural life (museums, theater), you'll find creole food at Brennan's, a semi-fancy New Orleans export, soul food (and coffee) that will stay with you all day at The Breakfast Klub, an African-American institution, and lots of good Vietnamese food especially as you go North towards downtown.
Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 2024-04-27 17:28 by SecondSet.