Guidebook for Houston

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Guidebook for Houston

Food Scene

Lucille's is an upscale southern fusion restaurant and bar in the Museum District. Lucille's is a neighborhood and Houston mainstay. The restaurant serves brunch, lunch and dinner.
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Lucille's
5512 La Branch St
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Lucille's is an upscale southern fusion restaurant and bar in the Museum District. Lucille's is a neighborhood and Houston mainstay. The restaurant serves brunch, lunch and dinner.
Bodegas Taco Shop serves Tex-Mex dishes at varying prices. There are many better restaurants to sample Mexican cuisine. It's more well known for its drinks and outdoor patio facing Hermann Park.
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Bodegas Taco Shop
1200 Binz St
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Bodegas Taco Shop serves Tex-Mex dishes at varying prices. There are many better restaurants to sample Mexican cuisine. It's more well known for its drinks and outdoor patio facing Hermann Park.
dak & bop is a critically-aclaimed Korean friend chicken restaurant and bar. It is widely known for its famous twice fried chicken. Warning, dak & bop is vary popular and can have long wait times.
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Dak & Bop
1801 Binz St
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dak & bop is a critically-aclaimed Korean friend chicken restaurant and bar. It is widely known for its famous twice fried chicken. Warning, dak & bop is vary popular and can have long wait times.
Spanish Village Restaurant is an eclectic Museum Park mainstay of over 50 years. Food is reasonably-priced traditional Tex-Mex fare. Restaurant is highly regarded for its margaritas.
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Spanish Village Restaurant
4720 Almeda Rd
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Spanish Village Restaurant is an eclectic Museum Park mainstay of over 50 years. Food is reasonably-priced traditional Tex-Mex fare. Restaurant is highly regarded for its margaritas.
Bosta Wine & Coffee is a small shop serving artisan coffees with a rotating wine menu. It also serves light bites.
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Bosta Kitchen
1801 Binz St
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Bosta Wine & Coffee is a small shop serving artisan coffees with a rotating wine menu. It also serves light bites.
Museum Park Cafe is upscale restaurant in the Museum District. Patrons should be aware the food is great, but the prices reflect the quality. It's only open for dinner.
Museum Park Cafe
1801 Binz St
Museum Park Cafe is upscale restaurant in the Museum District. Patrons should be aware the food is great, but the prices reflect the quality. It's only open for dinner.
Well-priced plant-based restaurant near the house. Serves vegan and vegetarian burgers, paninis, plate dishes, fries, drinks and smoothies. Place is very popular for lunch and dinner.
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green seed vegan
4320 Almeda Rd
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Well-priced plant-based restaurant near the house. Serves vegan and vegetarian burgers, paninis, plate dishes, fries, drinks and smoothies. Place is very popular for lunch and dinner.
Luigi's Pizzeria is just outside the neighborhood and is an incredibly popular spot for handmade pizzas and gelato. Has a small outdoor patio. Popular by bike from the Museum District.
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Luigi's Pizzeria
3700 Almeda Rd
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Luigi's Pizzeria is just outside the neighborhood and is an incredibly popular spot for handmade pizzas and gelato. Has a small outdoor patio. Popular by bike from the Museum District.
A Houston institution, the Breakfast Klub draws visitors from all around. Get there early on weeks, as the line quickly extends out the building and around the block.
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The Breakfast Klub
3711 Travis St
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A Houston institution, the Breakfast Klub draws visitors from all around. Get there early on weeks, as the line quickly extends out the building and around the block.
Subway Restaurant. Inexpensive, standard fare close to the house.
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Subway
1801 Old Spanish Trail
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Subway Restaurant. Inexpensive, standard fare close to the house.
Affordably-priced restaurant serving Caribbean dishes.
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Reggae Hut
4814 Almeda Rd
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Affordably-priced restaurant serving Caribbean dishes.
Cafe inside of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
MFA Cafe
5601 Main St
Cafe inside of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Modern eatery serving comfort food. Found on the first floor of the Mosaic high-rise across from Hermann Park.
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Davis Street at Hermann Park
5925 Almeda Rd
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Modern eatery serving comfort food. Found on the first floor of the Mosaic high-rise across from Hermann Park.

Sightseeing

The Children's Museum of Houston is one of the neighborhood's must-see attractions for visiting families. It was recently ranked as the nation's best children's museum.
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Museo de los Niños de Houston
1500 Binz St
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The Children's Museum of Houston is one of the neighborhood's must-see attractions for visiting families. It was recently ranked as the nation's best children's museum.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is arguably the city's strongest. It is one of the nation's largest museums of any genre and contains 64,000 works spanning 6,000 years across six continents.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Beck Building
1001 Bissonnet St
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is arguably the city's strongest. It is one of the nation's largest museums of any genre and contains 64,000 works spanning 6,000 years across six continents.
The museum is the fourth most attended in the country. It contains four floors of artifacts, a planetarium, IMAX and live butterfly center. It's main attraction is the 230,000-foot paleontology wing.
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El Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Houston
5555 Hermann Park Dr
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The museum is the fourth most attended in the country. It contains four floors of artifacts, a planetarium, IMAX and live butterfly center. It's main attraction is the 230,000-foot paleontology wing.
The center includes an art gallery, three lifted gardens and a cafe. It contains spaces for events covering Asian art, cinema and performance. It is the second Asia Society building in the nation.
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Asia Society Texas Center
1370 Southmore Blvd
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The center includes an art gallery, three lifted gardens and a cafe. It contains spaces for events covering Asian art, cinema and performance. It is the second Asia Society building in the nation.
The Houston Bicycle Museum displays collections of antique bicycles and cycling-related memorabilia. The museum chronicles cycling from its infancy in the mid-1850s to the modern era.
Houston Bicycle Museum
1313 Binz Street
The Houston Bicycle Museum displays collections of antique bicycles and cycling-related memorabilia. The museum chronicles cycling from its infancy in the mid-1850s to the modern era.
The Health Museum is the most visited health museum of its kind in the country. It includes a hands-on walk through the human body and real organ dissections.
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El Museo de la Salud
1515 Hermann Dr
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The Health Museum is the most visited health museum of its kind in the country. It includes a hands-on walk through the human body and real organ dissections.
Houston's premier public green space. The 500 plus-acre park includes numerous walking paths, a reflection pool, obelisk, pond with pedal boats, centennial and Japanese gardens and many food vendors.
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Parque Hermann
6001 Fannin St
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Houston's premier public green space. The 500 plus-acre park includes numerous walking paths, a reflection pool, obelisk, pond with pedal boats, centennial and Japanese gardens and many food vendors.
A 55-acre zoo housing over 6,000 animals over 900 species. It receives 1.8 million visitors annually and is the nation's tenth most visited zoo. It is known for open-air exhibits.
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Houston Zoo
6200 Hermann Park Dr
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A 55-acre zoo housing over 6,000 animals over 900 species. It receives 1.8 million visitors annually and is the nation's tenth most visited zoo. It is known for open-air exhibits.
The museum celebrates and shares cultural heritages of a major Slavic ethnic groups and their histories.
Czech Center Museum Houston
4920 San Jacinto St
The museum celebrates and shares cultural heritages of a major Slavic ethnic groups and their histories.
National museum celebrating the Buffalo Soldiers, originally were members of the U.S. Army's 10th Cavalry Regiment, formed on September 21, 1866.
3816 Caroline St
3816 Caroline Street
National museum celebrating the Buffalo Soldiers, originally were members of the U.S. Army's 10th Cavalry Regiment, formed on September 21, 1866.
Museum remembering the holocaust and celebrating its fallen with Houston ties.
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Museo del Holocausto de Houston
5401 Caroline St
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Museum remembering the holocaust and celebrating its fallen with Houston ties.
Outdoor performance venue offering near-nightly free cinema, dance, song and musical performances. Seating is available on a large hill overlooking the stage or ticketed seats next to the stage.
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Teatro al aire libre Miller
6000 Hermann Park Dr
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Outdoor performance venue offering near-nightly free cinema, dance, song and musical performances. Seating is available on a large hill overlooking the stage or ticketed seats next to the stage.
The Jung Center offers more than 200 classes each year on topics from relationships to ethics, religious studies to expressive arts, writing to meditation. The art gallery offers rotating exhibits.
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The Jung Center
5200 Montrose Blvd
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The Jung Center offers more than 200 classes each year on topics from relationships to ethics, religious studies to expressive arts, writing to meditation. The art gallery offers rotating exhibits.
The museum is an exhibition forum for the rights of freedom of speech and expression. The museum is an activist institution supporting civil society issues.
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Station Museum of Contemporary Art
1502 Alabama St
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The museum is an exhibition forum for the rights of freedom of speech and expression. The museum is an activist institution supporting civil society issues.
The museum is a not-for-profit institution in the Museum District dedicated to presenting the contemporary art of the current time to the public.
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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
5216 Montrose Blvd
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The museum is a not-for-profit institution in the Museum District dedicated to presenting the contemporary art of the current time to the public.
One of the city's newest museums, it strives to tell the story of Africans and African-Americans in Houston.
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Houston Museum of African American Culture
4807 Caroline St
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One of the city's newest museums, it strives to tell the story of Africans and African-Americans in Houston.
A privately-owned but publicly-accessible collection of 17,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and rare books. Admission is free, but donations are encouraged.
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La Colección Menil
1533 Sul Ross St
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A privately-owned but publicly-accessible collection of 17,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and rare books. Admission is free, but donations are encouraged.

Everything Else

The Museum District Northbound Station connects riders to nightlife hotspots Midtown and Museum via Ensemble/HCC and McGowen Stations and downtown nightlife and sporting institutions at four stops
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Museum District station
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The Museum District Northbound Station connects riders to nightlife hotspots Midtown and Museum via Ensemble/HCC and McGowen Stations and downtown nightlife and sporting institutions at four stops
Trains depart the station traveling southbound, toward famed nightlife hotspot Rice Village, medical mainstay the Texas Medical Center and the NRG Stadium, home to the Houston Texans and RodeoHouston.
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Museum District station
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Trains depart the station traveling southbound, toward famed nightlife hotspot Rice Village, medical mainstay the Texas Medical Center and the NRG Stadium, home to the Houston Texans and RodeoHouston.
Transit center acting as a hub for Houston light rail and bus transit. The center has northbound and southbound METRORail stations and numerous city and regional bus stalls.
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Wheeler Stn NB station
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Transit center acting as a hub for Houston light rail and bus transit. The center has northbound and southbound METRORail stations and numerous city and regional bus stalls.

Drinks & Nightlife

Popular bar specializing in unique cocktails and craft beers. Kitchen serves light bites and burgers.
Scrappy Brown's
4830 Almeda Rd
Popular bar specializing in unique cocktails and craft beers. Kitchen serves light bites and burgers.
Critically-acclaimed upscale sushi restaurant. Ranked as the twenty-seventh best restaurant in Houston, regardless of genre, by The Houston Chronicle.
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MF Sushi Houston Museum District
1401 Binz Street
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Critically-acclaimed upscale sushi restaurant. Ranked as the twenty-seventh best restaurant in Houston, regardless of genre, by The Houston Chronicle.
Popular bar with large craft beer availability. Well known for its back garden, which contains games and hammocks. Pizzas can be ordered from Luigi's Pizzeria, which is next door.
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Axelrad Beer Garden
1517 Alabama St
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Popular bar with large craft beer availability. Well known for its back garden, which contains games and hammocks. Pizzas can be ordered from Luigi's Pizzeria, which is next door.