In your company, are you responsible for booking venues, facilities, restaurants and organizing transportation for meetings and events?
| Some of Houston's Best Kept Secrets |
Step out of the city and step into Brenner’s Steakhouse on the Bayou. Surrounded by nature on Houston’s Buffalo Bayou, the two-story restaurant will offer you stunning views, making it a truly unforgettable dining experience. The restaurant also features a cozy cocktail lounge, wine cellar and spacious patio. Also located at the facility is Blue Bar at Brenner’s on the Bayou. It is a wonderful place for an intimate style event. It is filled with splashes of blue and beautiful décor. It certainly is a luxurious high-energy patio bar.
If you are looking for a relaxed lounge atmosphere for your next event, Mercer Lounge might be just right for you. Mercer Lounge offers a fresh, new prospective for the Houston social scene. This lavish venue is sophisticated and yet unpretentious.
Originally built as a storage building, The House of Deréon Media Center housed tour stages, wardrobe, and merchandising for female singing group, Destiny’s Child. The venue made its debut on June 02, 2006 as it held events for the 2006 NBA All-Star Game. The now modern outfitted 4,300 square foot venue surrounds you with elegance the moment you set foot into the courtyard. The two-story art deco inspired building includes several bars and balconies that tower over the first level. This venue will allow you and your guests to celebrate VIP style.
Howl at the Moon and Pete’s Piano Bar are two great places to host your next corporate event or party no matter how big or small. The rock ‘n’ roll dueling piano show is the perfect way to entertain your party goers while their service staff provides the highest quality of service and entertainment to your event.
Museum Venues
The recent expansion and all new exhibits at The Children’s Museum of Houston are for kids of all ages. It’s a fun and exciting place to hold meetings and events. It’s guaranteed to bring out the kid in all your guests.
Are you looking for a unique venue for your guests to explore? The Health Museum offers exciting, seasonal exhibits that are sure to fascinate all of your guests. They have a large meeting space as well as three private rooms to accommodate large and small groups. All of the rooms are equipped for digital presentations, speaking engagements, workshops, lectures and parties.
The Houston Museum of Natural Science has ten unique spaces to create imaginative atmospheres. Each space they offer is architecturally stunning and educationally rich. They will help you create the ideal environment to fit any event from 20 to 2,000 guests. The Houston Museum of Natural Science strives to make every event truly unforgettable. From sophisticated and dramatic to out-of-this-world, each distinctive venue offers beautiful settings beyond compare.
Revival Bayou Place
Downtown dining and entertainment destination, Bayou Place, is experiencing a renaissance this year. Don’t worry. The complex is still home to the Hard Rock Café and the Verizon Wireless Theater. However, several new bars and restaurants have recently opened as apart of the center’s re-imagined nightlife experience, Bayou Place Live!
The Samba Grille is Houston’s contemporary take on South American cuisine. They are known for one of the most unique menus in Houston. They serve everything from certified Angus beef and seafood to locally grown vegetables. You will be sure to enjoy their extensive wine list and visually stunning environment.
The 9,000 square foot Western-themed PBR Houston brings you country dancing and a little bull-riding action. The expansive outside terrace offers amazing views of the Theatre District. There you’ll find the guys in chaps, the girls in hot pants and the occasional choreographed dance number atop the bar…not to mention the good selection of beer and liquor basics.
Lucie’s Liquor offers an upscale sports bar experience, Vegas-style. This will transport you back to when the Rat Pack was at the top and the ladies called the shots. This 5,000 square foot tavern features rich wood walls and moldings, spacious booths, two large island bars and a spectacular outdoor balcony.
The retro-beach concept Shark Bar, is home of the endless summers. This bar makes you feel like you are at the beach with their frosty, cool rum-runners, piña coladas and the Shark’s signature drink, the beach pail punch.
The whisky bar, Chapel Spirits, is the ideal downtown destination for upscale happy hour events. Chapel Spirits can customize drinks and catering options for your next office happy hour or social gathering.
The Blue Fish, the Dallas outpost serving up sushi, is finally here in Houston. The atmosphere is similar to the chic and posh appearance of the four Dallas locations. It is covered in lots of blue tones and metal accents for an esthetic that one could only describe as an upscale wharf.
Sundance Cinemas has signed a lease for the former Angelika center space at Bayou Place. The extensive refurbishment work to the 36,000 square foot property to the tune of $2.25 million is almost complete, with hopes of opening on November 1, 2011. The Sundance Cinemas Houston will provide the same unique patron experience and success of Sundance’s two other theatres, located in San Francisco, California and Madison, Wisconsin.
If you are looking for a relaxed lounge atmosphere for your next event, Mercer Lounge might be just right for you. Mercer Lounge offers a fresh, new prospective for the Houston social scene. This lavish venue is sophisticated and yet unpretentious.
Originally built as a storage building, The House of Deréon Media Center housed tour stages, wardrobe, and merchandising for female singing group, Destiny’s Child. The venue made its debut on June 02, 2006 as it held events for the 2006 NBA All-Star Game. The now modern outfitted 4,300 square foot venue surrounds you with elegance the moment you set foot into the courtyard. The two-story art deco inspired building includes several bars and balconies that tower over the first level. This venue will allow you and your guests to celebrate VIP style.
Howl at the Moon and Pete’s Piano Bar are two great places to host your next corporate event or party no matter how big or small. The rock ‘n’ roll dueling piano show is the perfect way to entertain your party goers while their service staff provides the highest quality of service and entertainment to your event.
Museum Venues
The recent expansion and all new exhibits at The Children’s Museum of Houston are for kids of all ages. It’s a fun and exciting place to hold meetings and events. It’s guaranteed to bring out the kid in all your guests.
Are you looking for a unique venue for your guests to explore? The Health Museum offers exciting, seasonal exhibits that are sure to fascinate all of your guests. They have a large meeting space as well as three private rooms to accommodate large and small groups. All of the rooms are equipped for digital presentations, speaking engagements, workshops, lectures and parties.
The Houston Museum of Natural Science has ten unique spaces to create imaginative atmospheres. Each space they offer is architecturally stunning and educationally rich. They will help you create the ideal environment to fit any event from 20 to 2,000 guests. The Houston Museum of Natural Science strives to make every event truly unforgettable. From sophisticated and dramatic to out-of-this-world, each distinctive venue offers beautiful settings beyond compare.
Revival Bayou Place
Downtown dining and entertainment destination, Bayou Place, is experiencing a renaissance this year. Don’t worry. The complex is still home to the Hard Rock Café and the Verizon Wireless Theater. However, several new bars and restaurants have recently opened as apart of the center’s re-imagined nightlife experience, Bayou Place Live!
The Samba Grille is Houston’s contemporary take on South American cuisine. They are known for one of the most unique menus in Houston. They serve everything from certified Angus beef and seafood to locally grown vegetables. You will be sure to enjoy their extensive wine list and visually stunning environment.
The 9,000 square foot Western-themed PBR Houston brings you country dancing and a little bull-riding action. The expansive outside terrace offers amazing views of the Theatre District. There you’ll find the guys in chaps, the girls in hot pants and the occasional choreographed dance number atop the bar…not to mention the good selection of beer and liquor basics.
Lucie’s Liquor offers an upscale sports bar experience, Vegas-style. This will transport you back to when the Rat Pack was at the top and the ladies called the shots. This 5,000 square foot tavern features rich wood walls and moldings, spacious booths, two large island bars and a spectacular outdoor balcony.
The retro-beach concept Shark Bar, is home of the endless summers. This bar makes you feel like you are at the beach with their frosty, cool rum-runners, piña coladas and the Shark’s signature drink, the beach pail punch.
The whisky bar, Chapel Spirits, is the ideal downtown destination for upscale happy hour events. Chapel Spirits can customize drinks and catering options for your next office happy hour or social gathering.
The Blue Fish, the Dallas outpost serving up sushi, is finally here in Houston. The atmosphere is similar to the chic and posh appearance of the four Dallas locations. It is covered in lots of blue tones and metal accents for an esthetic that one could only describe as an upscale wharf.
Sundance Cinemas has signed a lease for the former Angelika center space at Bayou Place. The extensive refurbishment work to the 36,000 square foot property to the tune of $2.25 million is almost complete, with hopes of opening on November 1, 2011. The Sundance Cinemas Houston will provide the same unique patron experience and success of Sundance’s two other theatres, located in San Francisco, California and Madison, Wisconsin.
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