That location used to be Little Hip’s Diner, which closed and recently became Broken Spoke Cafe. We were going to Little Hip’s for a while back when it opened in 2006 and then it got a good review in the Chronicle. The owner probably wasn’t prepared for the onslaught of people that read the review and really didn’t care for most of them either. In any case, he had plenty of business - the price points were good - so lumping this into hip bars and restaurants that you think won’t last is probably a bad assumption.

http://houston.craigslist.org/bfs/954260189.html

These areas dont last.

The idea started off badly when they decided to build $800k townhomes in Rice Military in the first place.

The fact of the matter is however, if they want to sell their townhomes - they will have to keep the elements at their lounge pretty tame. I would NOT expect anything like a Coco Loco.

I found a little gem of place called Pagoda by Cadillac Bar the other day and was pleasantly surprised to find it as a trendy Vietnamese Bistro/Bar.

3833 Hillcroft is a block away and the other side of the street from Coco Loco, which is listed as 3700 Hillcroft. Looks from Google Maps like this is an apartment address.

I’m no expert but I don’t see anything that connects this property to Coco Loco other than extemely weak circumstantial evidence.

Coco Loco in Harris County Assumed Names database is owned by DC COMMERCIAL INC.

Reign Lounge does not have an entry.

Kong:
Do you want to weigh in with your source?

I was reading some of the other posts and was pretty shocked/amused to see all the strong feelings based off of misinformation.

A simple three second google search was all it took for me to realize it wasn’t a Coco Loco planned.

It’s crazy that I haven’t even read a zip code in anybody’s post, but a “sense of entitlement to zip code” keeps on getting mentioned.

Anyway, I do prefer for the trends to move towards restaurants/shopping rather than bars. I actually forsee Washington resembling Midtown, rather than 6th St. I doubt the City of Houston would ever shut down Washington for revelers to traverse the streets 3 nights a week. Washington has a looong way to go before that happens.

I am not opposed to bars in the neighborhood, there are four in very close proximity to my home that are either good neighbors or at the very least, neutral. There is one that has had two murders, multiple armed robberies in their parking lot, prostitution, noise complaints and at least three cars ending up in ditches on my street that were coming from there. Our complaints got the TABC to investigate and lost them their license. There is another bar trying to reopen that is equally a nuisance and we are actively trying to block that. Don’t give up, but remember, call the police for anything that is a nuiscance. We still have noise limits between certain hours that even they have to abide by. Good luck. Washington Ave. will survive. You may have to be more vigilant for awhile, but it will clean up if you and your neighbors stay on it.

Stephen, Joseph
3833 Hillcroft
Houston, TX 77057
United States
(281) 235-5995

Owners of website show up as Coco Loco Location…different name same crowd?