NEW SHEPHERD DR. LITTLE WOODROW’S TO SERVE PUB FARE, TOO 
Beer after wine: Closed back in November, Block 7 at 720 South Shepherd Dr. is being replaced by Little Woodrow’s, reports Eater Houston’s Eric Sandler. Just south of the Washington Corridor in Rice Military Magnolia Grove and a block east from the about-to-open Katch 22 from Roger Clemens’s kid Kory, the new Shepherd spot, rep Nick Menage tells Sandler, will house no ordinary Woodrow’s: “In a twist, this location will have a full kitchen that will serve an updated mix of bar foods including burgers, nachos and pizzas from the old Block 7 oven. Menage assures fans of the bar’s popular steak nights that there are plans to maintain that tradition, too.” [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot] Photo of Block 7: Panoramio user Wolfgang Houston
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I think you mean NORTH Shepherd. A lot of people make that mistake. Also, I’m not sure what I would call that area, but I wouldn’t call it Rice Military.
I agree with Garx. Its not Wash Ave either … I hope the new place does well. Block 7 suffered from an identity crisis – it was a wine shop that served really decent food in an interesting space. I was sorry to see it go.
I think we’ve long surpassed maximum little Woodrow’s density in this area. I can’t see it being able to handle another.
This makes me happy.
That area is called the “West End”
So Woodrow’s took over the Mardi Gras Grill at 1200 Durham a few months back, and christened it as “Woodrow’s Heights”. I think Woodrow’s and Little Woodrow’s have separate ownership.
The more casual setting that Little Woodrows offers will do well and finally replaces the needlessly torn down one on W Alabama.
Funny though that the former mardi Gras grill just down the road is now called (big) Woodrow’s Heights. Might cause some confusion.
Great, another daycare for the 20-somethings.
More parking on neighbors’ grass, getting drunk and hanging out in the parking lot, then throwing up on the way back to their cars, and discovering they’ve been broken into. I really don’t see their money spent as beneficial for neighborhood commerce. Yuck.
Neither NORTH or SOUTH Shepherd. Just Shepherd.
North starts at Center Street (1 block N of Washington).
South starts at Buffalo Bayou.
Forgive me if this has been discussed before, but am I the only one who thinks that the Wash Ave area needs one, unifying neighborhood name? I live in Magnolia Grove, but no one knows what that is, so I have to just say “Off Wash Ave” (though that implies that I moved there to be close to Wash Ave bars, which is NOT the case) or say that I’m in between Montrose and the Heights (which is a stretch). Rice Military stops at Durham/Shepherd so that isn’t accurate. The neighborhoods can continue to retain their individual neighborhood names, but the entire area can have one unifying name so that folks know what you’re talking about (e.g., Montrose is the larger neighborhood that contains Hyde Park).
I would think realtors and retailers would both jump at the chance to not have to describe the area by referring to street names. Part of the area is called the West End (I think the area between Shepherd, Wash Ave, Heights, and Katy Freeway), and I think that would be a cool name to describe the whole area (particularly given the fact that the area used to be the end of town). I’m sure there are other cool names too, but any name should not contain “Heights” in the title, as the area is decidedly not the Heights and the feel/look is incredibly different. The area’s former name, “Smokeytown,” should also be out for obvious reasons.
Actually, the address is neither north nor south, it’s just 720 Shepherd Drive. North Shepherd is north of I-10 and South Shepherd is further south, where Durham & Shepherd merge into one road.
@KublaConn and @Bill Shirley: Thanks! The story’s updated. “South” is gone.
“The neighborhoods can continue to retain their individual neighborhood names, but the entire area can have one unifying name so that folks know what you’re talking about (e.g., Montrose is the larger neighborhood that contains Hyde Park).
I would think realtors and retailers would both jump at the chance to not have to describe the area by referring to street names”
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I think it’s funny that you complain about Rice Military incorrectly being used to describe the different neighborhoods in that immediate area but go on to do the exact same thing when describing Hyde Park as part of Montrose.
@Eric, It used to be that it was all the West End after you got past First and Sixth Ward. Washington Corridor seems to be the term most frequently thrown about now. I am not sure what happened to West End, as it is a cool name.
@Garx, it missed being Rice Military by easily a 100′ or so.
West End’s not a bad suggestion to cover some of the not-so-famous Washington area neighborhoods. Information on neighborhoods within Superneighborhood 22 can be found here.
Boring
@Diggity I wasn’t aware that Hyde Park was not considered part of the larger Montrose area. Where does Montrose end and Hyde Park begin? I always thought that one could say they lived in both places and would both be right. If I live east of Shepherd and say I live in both Magnolia Grove and Rice Military, I’d be wrong.
@TheDude I’ve heard Washington Corridor bandied about. Not a fan.
This LW will do great. They all do and it’s more a 27-45 year old professional crowd
I’ve been told the food will be good pub fare
50 beers on tap and much more to offer the neighborhood we are hearing
Obviously call it superneighborhood 22.
@Diggity I wasn’t aware that Hyde Park was not considered part of the larger Montrose area. Where does Montrose end and Hyde Park begin? I always thought that one could say they lived in both places and would both be right. If I live east of Shepherd and say I live in both Magnolia Grove and Rice Military, I’d be wrong.
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I hate to quote wiki, but they are pretty accurate here. The broad term for the area you are describing has been coined “Neartown”.
People do refer to that area as Montrose as well, but in a similar manner as some in your hood call everything Rice Military. The actual Montrose subdivision is quite small.
“Neartown neighborhoods include Cherryhurst, Courtlandt Place, Hyde Park, Montrose, Vermont Commons, Mandell Place and Winlow Place. The entire region is colloquially referred to by Houstonians as “Montrose.”
“Neartown” is one of those marketing terms that got thunk up by real estate agents who thought people might be scared off by the connotations brought up by Montrose and think of, oh, New Jersey or something instead. Back when I lived in Richwood in the late 70s – early 80s (which EVERYBODY called Montrose – in fact, the Richwood Food Market a/k/a Freaky Foods check cashing card was how one knew a Card Carrying Montrosian) nobody had ever heard of a place called Neartown, and my poor mom was reduced to telling her cronies that I lived “in the Museum District.” As if.
I don’t really like the Neartown name either. It sounds as forced as anything people have tried to apply to the “Rice Military” area.
I have no issue with people referring to that entire area as Montrose, just as I don’t have any issue with people referring to the subject area as Rice Military. Both names are better known than the smaller surrounding neighborhoods and get the job done.
I would hate to live in an area often referred to as “Super Neighborhood 22”, especially since the organization “Super Neighborhood 22” should really more accurately be referred to as “Stupid Neighborhood 22”.
Ok, we have Downtown, and the Galleria area is called Uptown, so, speaking just geographically, what is called Midtown would actually be Neartown and the Montrose/Washington Corridor would be the actual Midtown.