2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Bar Atmosphere: The atmosphere is laid-back & unpretentious, the blank walls & generous sightlines make an ideal milieu for the talent's flights of artistic fancy.
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Strip Club: Cover ranges from $4 to $8, the buffet is free, expansive & tasty, & at least 3 stages featuring some of the best-looking adult entertainers in Houston.
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best New Bar: There are booths & couches downstairs plus a porch-like downstairs patio & rooftop deck for all you smokers!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Bar — Midtown: Soak up those $1 Lone Star cans one by one and take your time because happy hour lasts til 9PM!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Club for Local Acts: Has art installations, graffiti murals, a newly installed back patio & a large stage where traveling bands and locals do their thing.
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Art Show: Groupshow: Explore the building's three floors and feel like an invisible spy or an investigator of strange phenomenal!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Art Gallery: Art Palace is thinking deep, pushing boundaries and keeping it fun.
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Film Series: Regular midnight screenings run the gamut, with action flicks, classics, thrillers and the ever-popular The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Bar: 1 of the city's most lively alcoholic redoubts. You can disappear in a dark corner, or you can hold court w/your drinking team on the dark back patio.
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Bar in Montrose: Lola's Depot has been a haven for smokers and swillers for years now. It's our favorite spot to fall into after a hard week, day or…month.
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Jukebox: Old-fashioned CD jukebox and stocking it with the good stuff: cry-in-your-beer honky-tonk from dive bar patron saints.
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Happy Hour: Every Thurs, Spacetaker & Boheme invite different art groups to a happy hour event, from 5-10 PM. There's always something eye-opening each week!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Place to See a Local Film: Dean's regularly hosts a showcase of just-released films, clips of works in process and chat with filmmakers.
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Bar Games: Check out the pool tables, golf/deer hunter electronic games, cork dartboards, and even better a full-size shuffleboard set and a flip-cup table!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Card Game: Check out the Snowman Poker League downstairs, it fills up w/poker tables & players. Walk up stairs where the bartenders are great & the booze is cheap!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Theater Company: Check out Main Street's abiding professionalism is the essence of great theater. It creates worlds where none exist.
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Bar (Outerloop): Get your cash in the jukebox early or suffer the consequences of an hour of Staind and Nickelback. We recommend Miles Davis's Kind of Blue.
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Bar Bathroom: Need to pee? Check out the bathrooms of Washington Avenue's Darkhorse Tavern are museums to both male and female sexual exploits and skullduggery!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Museum: The Pearl has also made good use of the private holdings of collectors in the region, often bringing rarely seen works into the public spotlight!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Gay Bar: Great prices even outside of the extra-long happy hours, relaxed atmosphere when you walk into this laid-back neighborhood joint, you'll feel welcome!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Biker Bar: Smoker’s paradise! Bimbo's is beyond the city limits and not subject to Houston's antismoking statute!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Jazz Club: A spontaneous, free-swinging and earthy one — and there's no better place to see this than King Biscuit's no-cover Tuesday-night jam sessions.
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Dive: There is amazing little smoking patio out behind the place, an old oak draped in Christmas lights adorns the tiny backyard.
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Bar on Washington: Be sure to hit up the bar on one of its cheap you-call-it nights. Call in sick in advance!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Blues Club: Bronze Peacock Room has definitely begun to embrace the legacy of its bygone Fifth Ward namesake, proving there's still a lot of life in the blues!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Place to See a Foreign Film: They’re constantly changing line-up of ready-for-Hollywood Bollywood films and non-Westernized titles that are frequently screened!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Breakfast: Serves breakfast all day and you get free chips and queso with your breakfast!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Risotto: Try the risotto! Creamy and decadent without being heavy, simple to look at but complex at first bite!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Ceviche: The rasurado plate hums with the intensity of Serrano peppers mixed with chipotle sauce, the fiery flavors balanced by a creamy slice of avocado!
2010 Best of Houston® Winner: Best Pizza: Try a Gateway of India pizza that mixes tandoori chicken with artichoke hearts in a cilantro-chutney sauce.
