Textile

Upscale Scott Tycer restaurant in Oriental Textile Mill building
Address: 611 W. 22nd
Website

• New York Times – 02/04/10 – “Remixing Regional Flavors in Houston”
• Houston Press – 01/08/10 – “Garlic Zeppole and Foie Gras Ice Cream”
• Houston Press – 10/19/09 – “Master P”
• Houston Press – Best of Houston (2009) – “Best Desserts”
• 29-95 – 09/01/09 – “Sweet on Houston”
• Food in Houston Blog – 04/03/09 – “Houston’s Top 10 Restaurants 2009″
• I’m Never Full Blog – 03/24/09 – “How to spoil a girl like me”
• Houston Press – 03/12/09 – “The Tastes of Textile”
• Great Food Houston Blog – 03/01/09 – “Crazylicious Dessert Tasting”
• Great Food Houston Blog – 02/27/09 – “Textile Revisited”
• Food in Houston Blog – 01/10/08 – “Halcion days: a dinner at Textile”
• Houston Chronicle – 12/31/08 – “Hot, new restaurants grace the Houston landscape”
• Tasty Bits Blog – 12/19/08 – “First taste of Textile”
• TexasMonthly.com – 12/01/08 – Review
• Eat Me Houston Blog – 11/03/08 – Review
• Houston Press – 11/04/08 – “Textile in the Heights”
• Great Food Houston Blog – 10/31/08 – “Textile”
• EGullet thread
• Pastry Chef Plinio Sandalio’s Blog
• Yelp.com comments
• B4-u-eat.com comments

Beaver’s

Restaurant specializing in local foods and creative cocktails
Address: 2310 Decatur
Website

• New York Times – 02/04/10 – “Remixing Regional Flavors in Houston”
• The Loop Scoop.com – 01/09/10 – “Restaurants of the Year”
• 29-95.com – 01/05/10 – “Grilled Fish Tacos”
• H-Town Chow Down Blog – 01/05/10 – “Texas Monthly – Who Should We Put on the Cover?”
• Houston Press – 11/18/09 – “Bloody Good Times”
• Feed the Heights Blog – 09/30/09 – “Beaver’s: A Love Story”
• Feed Me Houston Blog – 09/25/09 – Pit Boss Chickwich
• H-Town Chow Down Blog – 09/24/09 – “A Modern Texas Ice House, and a Damned Good Burger”
• Houston Press – Best of Houston (2009) – “Best Macaroni and Cheese”
• Houston Press – 09/21/09 – “Chef Chat: Jonathan Jones of Beaver’s”
• Houston Press – 07/13/09 – “Bad-Ass Po-Boy”
• Houston Chronicle – 06/17/09 – “Wowed by the SpamWow! at Beaver’s”
• New York Times – 05/31/09 - “In Houston, a Party Corridor”
• Food in Houston Blog – 02/09/09 – “Updates: Bedford, Beaver’s”
• Food Princess Reports Blog – 02/01/09 – “Houston HouCHie Meetup”
• Houston Press – 01/22/09 – “Beaver’s Belt Strap”
• Cook’s Tour Blog – 01/05/09 – “The Year in Burgers”
• She Eats Blog – 12/29/08 – “Dam Good Food”
• Eat Me Houston Blog – 11/16/08 – Review
• Tasty Bits Blog – 11/10/08 – “Chefy Bits at Beaver’s”
• Houston Press – 11/06/08 – “Busy Beaver’s”
• Houston Press – 03/06/08 – “Pope puts new spin on BBQ joint”
• Houston Chronicle – 03/04/08 – Review
• Yelp.com comments
• B4-u-eat.com comments

Stella Sola

New restaurant in former Bedford space
Address: 1001 Studewood
Website

• New York Times – 02/07/10 – “Remixing Regional Flavors in Houston”
• Houston Press – 02/03/10 – “Marvelous mollusks”
• Tasty Bits Blog – 01/30/10 – “Truck Stop Ribeye”
• 29-95.com – 12/17/09 – “…Goat Cheese Panna Cotta”
• 29-95.com – 12/08/09 – “Shiny Star in the Heights”
• Houston Press - 12/02/09 - “Spotlight on Desserts”
• Houston Press – 11/11/09 – “Stella Hooked a Tripletail”
• Houston Press – 11/09/09 – “Bivalve Showdown”
• Houston Chronicle – 11/08/09 – “Caswell shuffles his chefs”
• Swamplot – 09/11/09 – “Studewood Gets Its Spaghetti Western”
• Houston Chronicle – 09/11/09 – “Reef’s Caswell buys Bedford location”
• Houston Chronicle – 08/20/09 – “Chef Robert Gadsby out at Bedford”
• Food in Houston Blog – 04/03/09 – “Houston’s Top 10 Restaurants 2009″
• Food in Houston Blog – 03/23/09 – “Bedford Restaurant”
• Houston Press – 02/25/09 – “Bedford’s Agave Sour”
• Houston Chronicle – 02/18/09 – “Enjoying a Bedford Adventure”
• Food in Houston Blog – 02/09/09 – “Updates: Bedford, Beaver’s”
• Houston Chronicle – 12/31/08 – “Hot, new restaurants grace the Houston landscape”
• Where’s My Damn Answer? Blog – 12/15/08 – Review
• Eat Me Houston Blog – 12/12/08 – Review
• Houston Press – 12/10/08 – “Chef Robert Gadsby Is Back with Bedford”
• Food in Houston Blog – 12/10/08 – “Robert Gadsby’s New Restaurant”
• Great Food Houston Blog – 12/04/08 – “Bedford”
• Swamplot – 09/03/08 – “The Old West Side of Studewood”
• Yelp.com comments
• B4-u-eat.com comments

Taps House of Beers

Bar with large beer selection
Address: 5120 Washington Ave.

• Houston Press – 02/03/10 – “Pear Pleasure”
• Houston Press – 11/26/09 – “Bartender Chat”
• HAIF comments
• Yelp.com comments

Table Seven Bistro [planned]

To replace Rare
Address: 700 Durham
Website

• Houston Press – 02/03/10 – “Table Seven”
• FredEatsHouston.com – 10/29/09 – “Update: Table Seven Bistro”
• FredEatsHouston.com – 10/26/09 – “Rare Closes. District 7 Grill/Table 7 Bistro to Open.”
• Yelp.com comments for Rare

2601 Baylor

• Swamplot – 03/13/08 – “A Sunset Heights Loft Size Turf War”
• Houston Chronicle – 03/03/08 – “City postpones decision on Baylor Street property in Sunset Heights”

Soma

Sushi restaurant on Washington Ave.
Address: 4820 Washington Ave.

• Houston Press – 01/28/10 – “Not Eating Sushi at Soma Sushi”
• Houston Press – Best of Houston (2009) – “Best Sushi”
• Food in Houston Blog – 05/27/09 – “Soma Revisited”
• Houston Press – 02/05/09 – “Houston Sushi’s Polar Opposites”
• Houston Press – 02/04/09 – “Fish Story: Crazy Irishman Sushi Roll”
• Houston Press – 01/28/09 – “Fish Story: Zen Tuna Roll”
• Houston Chronicle – 12/31/08 – “Hot, new restaurants grace the Houston landscape”
• Houston Chronicle – 05/07/08 – Review
• TexasMonthly.com – 04/08 – Review
• I’m Never Full Blog – 01/31/08 – Review
• Food in Houston Blog – 01/23/08 – “Soma – now I get it”
• Food in Houston Blog – 01/15/08 – “Soma – first taste”
• Houston Press – Best of Houston (2008) – “Best Fish and Chips”
• Yelp.com comments
• B4-u-eat.com comments

Catalan Food & Wine

Upscale Spanish-influenced restaurant on Washington
Address: 5555 Washington Ave., Suite A
Website

• The Houston Press – 01/26/10 – “Antoine Ware of Catalan” (part 2)
• The Loop Scoop.com – 01/09/10 – “Restaurants of the Year”
• Houston Press – Best of Houston (2009) – “Best Wine List”
• Houston Press – 07/30/09 – “Washington Ave. Revisited”
• New York Times – 05/31/09 - “In Houston, a Party Corridor”
• Food in Houston Blog – 05/03/09 – “Louisiana in Houston”
• Great Food Houston Blog – 04/12/09 – “Dinner at Catalan”
• Food in Houston Blog – 04/03/09 – “Houston’s Top 10 Restaurants 2009″
• Houston Press – 01/22/09 – “Better than Candy”
• Tasty Bits Blog – 04/26/08 – “Wild Romp Through Catalan”
• Houston Chronicle – 11/08/06 – “The gush is good, but Catalan’s cuisine is even better”
• Yelp.com comments
• B4-u-eat.com comments

Fiesta [closing?]

Weingarten Realty selling the Studewood Fiesta
Address: 1407 Studewood

• Page Partners listing
• Page Partners flyer
• HCAD listing
• HAIF discussion
  

Sew Crafty

Crafts store on 19th Street offering sewing, knitting, and other classes
Address: 321-B W. 19th St.
Website

Photo with permission from The Heights Life Blog

• The Heights Life Blog – 01/25/10 – “…Continues to Be So Neat”
• The Heights Life Blog – 10/02/09 – “Things Are Really Moving”
• The Heights Life Blog – 08/24/09 – “Craft Classes”
• The Heights Life Blog – 05/18/09 – “Sew Crafty Is So Neat”
• Houstonist – 05/03/08 – “Sew crafty opens up the crafting doors in Houston!”

Oscar Mart Mexican Kitchen

Convenience store/taqueria serving (according to the sign) tacos, tortas, quesadillas, sopes, and huaraches
Address: 2004 Houston Ave.

(The Oscar Mart sign is still there, but is leaning backward against the roof)

Feuhs Sheet Metal Works (1930)

Address: 1516 Spring St.

Portion of 1908 photo of Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 54 “tin band”, showing Theodore Feuhs (tall boy in center) and Carl Feuhs (tall man on right); Theodore Feuhs was for some period of time the proprietor of the Feuhs Sheet Metal Works on Spring Street

Airline Brass Works Building (1920)

Address: 1515 Spring St.

Thespian Park

Park associated with Theater LaB
Address: 2100 Colorado St. (at Alamo St.)
Website

(These photos were taken not long after a deep freeze)

Impact Houston Church of Christ

Address: 1704 Weber
Website

Crockett Elementary School

Address: 2112 Crockett
Website

Riviana Rice Plant

Houston plant of Houston-based rice company, Riviana (a subsidiary of Ebro Puleva)
Address: 1702 Taylor
Website

First Ward

Houston ward in which most of the Heights would have been located had the Heights been part of the city of Houston when the wards had legal significance

(However, the spot where the above was taken would probably have been in the Sixth Ward)

Gostick Gully

White Oak Bayou channel that once extended north past 8th Street

Trestle Bridge

Old MKT Railroad trestle now part of Heights Bike Trail

• IsThisHouston.com – photo
• Flickr - photo, photo

Mex Flores Produce

Grower/shipper/wholesaler of Mexican produce (inc. chayote squash, epazote, and tomatillos)
Address: 2216 Silver St. (at Weber St.)
Website

Southwell’s Hamburger Grill [planned]

Local hamburger chain
Address: Target Shopping Center

Harris Moving & Storage Building (1940’s)

Address: 2002 Silver St. (at Spring St.)

The Counter

Build-it-yourself burger place planned for Washington Ave.
Address: 4601 Washington
Website

• TheCounterBurger.com – “Coming Soon” (“Opening Winter 2010″)

Corkscrew [becoming Bee Love]

Reported to be closing in early February 2010 to make way for bar called Bee Love
Address: 1919 Washington
Website

• Swamplot – 01/22/10 – “Here Come Bee Love and Special Sauce”
• Yelp.com comments
• B4-u-eat.com comments

El Taco? [to be Trixie's instead?]

Space next to Corkscrew that had been reserved for taco restaurant to be used for over-30 nightclub
Address: 1919 Washington

Swamplot – 01/22/10 – “Here Come Bee Love and Special Sauce”

Swamplot – 02/27/09 – “Wrestler-Themed Tacos to Tame the Nightly Grind”

Houston Business Journal – 02/27/09 – “Brothers expand growing portfolio of Washington Avenue retail ventures”

Berripop Frozen Yogurt

Address: 3939 Washington Ave.
Website

• FredEatsHouston.com - “New Washington Businesses Go for the Old” (except in this case)

Buffalo Wild Wings

Address: 3939 Washington Ave.
Website

• FredEatsHouston.com – “New Washington Businesses Go for the Old” (except in this case)

Chatter’s Café

South Heights Blvd. restaurant specializing in Mediterranean food
Address: 140 S. Heights Blvd.
Website

• Feed Me Houston! Blog – 01/19/10 – “Chatter’s”
• Yelp.com comments
• B4-u-eat.com comments

Max’s Wine Dive

Crowded wine bar with ambitious food menu
Address: 4720 Washington Ave.
Website

• Feed Me Houston! Blog – 01/19/10 – “Max’s Wine Dive”
• Great Food Houston Blog – 10/25/09 – “Chicken and Waffles”
• Houston Chroncile – 09/16/09 – “How to make Max’s fried-egg sandwich”
• Houston Press – 07/23/09 – “Texas Haute Dog”
• Houston Press – 06/22/09 – “Late Night Scene”
• New York Times - 05/31/09 - “In Houston, a Party Corridor”
• Houston Press – 04/08/09 – “Molecular Madness”
• Food in Houston Blog – 04/03/09 – “Houston’s Top 10 Restaurants 2009″
• Houston Foodie Blog – 03/25/09 – “Max’s Goes Molecular”
• Houston Press -02/22/09 – “Spring Is Here”
• Great Food Houston Blog – 02/16/09 – “Spring Preview”
• Houston Foodie Blog – 02/13/09 – “Spring Menu Tasting”
• Cook’s Tour Blog – 01/05/09 – “The Year in Burgers”
• Great Food Houston Blog – 12/16/08 – Review
• Tasty Bits Blog – 09/01/08 – “Dinner with Max”
• Tasty Bits Blog – 03/29/08 – “Big Ass Wing Cakes”
• Eat Me Houston Blog – 03/04/08 – Review
• Houston Press – Best of Houston (2008) – “Best Wine Bar Food”
• Houston Press – 04/15/08 – “Hot Dogs at Max’s Wine Dive”
• Houston Press – Best of Houston (2007) – “Best Cheeseburger”
• Houston Press – 02/21/07 – “Haute Dogs and Hotties”
• Houstonist – 01/31/07 – Review
• Yelp.com comments
• B4-u-eat.com comments