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  1. On 9/17/2018 at 5:22 PM, Neonmoon said:

    They moved to a red hot office market from a market where they have something like 450,000 SF of space on the sublease market.  The move makes no financial sense from an office occupancy cost standpoint. 

    Separately, I was speaking to buddy of mine last weekend who owns an oil field services/wastewater disposal company that mostly operates in the Permian.  He is expecting a huge slow down in drilling/fracking due to take off capacity being maxed out.  He says the forward contracts for his services are about to crawl after blowing and going for the last year plus.  What is the surly consensus?  Is the market about to slow down?

  2. On 8/26/2018 at 9:09 AM, Surly Bevo said:

    The Jester and other comments about the top 10% are interesting....as we work to promote diversity (socio-economic background, etc) are we actually ending up with other singularities (personality types, etc).  Maybe, maybe not. Obviously anecdotal comments don't prove jack shit, but you hear these kinds of comments a lot from students and parents of students at UT these days...even from some of them who have the loner, dork savant who they were hoping would be rounded by the college experience.

     Oh and fuck the KAs....at least the mid to late 90s version.  

     

    Sorry for partying bro.  

  3. 12 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Call 311 if you see debris on the streets.  Don't assume someone has done it.   Works with broken traffic lights, pot holes, water main leaks, etc.   There is no guarantee everything is fixed immediately but I also don't think there are road crews roaming every street looking for things to fix.  you got to tell them.

    You can download the 311 app and do it from your phone, while driving preferably.  😉

     

    If any of you motherfuckers drive 30 miles an hour down Westheimer b/t 610 and the Beltway, you're goddamned right I'm going to weave around and pass you.  If you drive 45ish at non peak times, you can time the lights and hit mostly green lights.

  4. 2 minutes ago, Lagunamadre said:

     I was in the balcony as well and agree that the crowd noise was distracting. Maybe it was due to how packed it was, I've seen a handful of shows inside White Oak and I don't remember ever being disappointed with the sound quality. 

     Agree on the crowd, you would have thought you were at a Toby Keith concert. I figured Childers would have had a more hipster following. 

    The sound is usually excellent inside.    I enjoyed his story about the last time he played Houston it was to a crowd of 5 people.

  5. 1 hour ago, Lagunamadre said:

    Was anybody else at Tyler Childers in Houston on Friday night? The sound out White Oak (inside) seemed way off, it was hard to hear any of the vocals, I ended up leaving early because of it. 

    Yes, I was there.  Snagged a spot in the center balcony during the Wooks set.  Based on the line to get in and how packed it was inside, the show had to be oversold.  Looked like it was assholes and elbows down on the floor.   Loud, rowdy crowd who wouldn't shut the fuck up.  It sounded okay in the balcony but they needed to turn the volume up to hear over the crowd noise.  I thought Tyler was great.  That will be the last time we see him in a venue that small.  I was shocked at how country/redneck the crowd was and that they knew every word of his songs.

  6. There is no force field issue in H-Town.  Raining it's ass off in the Galleria.  It's fucking up construction of my new house.  (FU Harvey rebuild)

  7. On 5/9/2018 at 10:18 PM, We’reTexas said:

    Absolutely. Best burger in town, and everything else is excellent. 

     Agreed.  Chris Sheperd planned the menu.  Everything is great.  Best wings in town.  They've added several Underbelly menu items; goat dumplings ftw.  Great place to watch an Astros game.  When they're winning Houston made beers are half off.  

  8. https://www.chron.com/entertainment/restaurants-bars/article/Chris-Shepherd-s-new-UB-Preserv-to-open-week-of-12799450.php

     

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    Chris Shepherd’s new UB Preserv to open week of April 16

    No sooner did Underbelly close than an opening date is posted for the restaurant's much-anticipated follow-up. James Beard Award-winning chef Chris Shepherd will open his new restaurant, UB Preserv, 1609 Westheimer, the week of April 16.

    Shepherd shared other big news: he has hired former Momofuku wiz Nick Wong at UB Preserv's chef de cuisine. Wong, a native Californian, who joined David Chang's Momofuku team after attending the French Culinary Institute in New York, working at Momofuku Ko and Momofuku Ssam Bar in New York. After two years with Momofuku Ssam Bar he spent a year at Danny Meyer's Gramercy Tavern then at Chris Cosentino's Incanto in San Francisco. He returned to Momofuku Ssam Bar in 2013 as sous chef and was promoted to chef de cuisine a year later.

    Shepherd said that Wong was looking for a change and took a road trip across country which brought him to Houston about three weeks after Hurricane Harvey. "He said he wanted to see if there was anything he could do to help out," Shepherd said. "I told him to come and see what you want to do. He spent a couple of days here and we talked."

    Those talks led to others and two weeks ago Shepherd had a new chef de cuisine. In the next few days Shepherd said he and Wong will begin collaborating on the menu for UB Preserv, which Shepherd said will continue Underbelly's mission of telling the story of how Houston eats.

    But, the Shepherd said, that has changed from when Underbelly first opened in 2012. That story has become more expansive and it will be reflected in the new UB Preserv menu, he added.

    "You're starting to see the second generations doing their things," he said. "I think we want to try to venture out not into just Southeast Asian, but also more into Middle Eastern, African and Mexican. We want to expand our vision of what's going on. We want to see it all."

    Together, Shepherd and Wong have dumplings on the mind, too. They are conspiring to create the best dumplings in Houston, as well as planning to offer Sunday dim sum brunch, a rarity inside the Loop.

    Shepherd and his Underbelly staff have been busy lately. On March 31, the restaurant hosted its final service. On April 1 Underbelly threw a party before work began on transforming the space to Georgia James steakhouse, set to open mid-July. Next door, partner Kevin Floyd will close the Hay Merchant after service April 2 for repairs to the beer cooler, reopening April 22. After Shepherd opens UB Preserv he will have a few months to perfect the menu there before turning his attention to the last day of service at his One Fifth Romance Languages on July 31. One Fifth Mediterranean will open Sept. 1.

    "Getting through the weekend was key for me – to be able to have closure and now focus on something new," Shepherd said. "That's the only way I'm going to be able to do this."

     

  9. My problem with Bubba's is no french fries.  When I'm getting my fat on, that's kind of a deal killer.  Good burger otherwise though.

    I would also like to submit, Sams Burgers, Pies & Fries on Dairy Ashford.  Haven't been in a while, but it's solid.

  10. 10 hours ago, mbtex said:

    Stantons

    Jax Burgers

    Hubcap Grill

    How do you include Jax in with the other two?  I haven't had Christians in a long time.  Has their quality held up since it sold?  Hubcap should also be in the discussion. 

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