Leon's Lounge

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Terri West

Joined 3 years ago

Houston, we have a 'real lounge"!!. Located in Midtown, this warm and velvety lounge has the historic charm that will keep you coming back.

The drink menu is very interesting with a variety of melodic concoctions for any mood. The prices are very moderately priced. There are some cozy sitting areas to sit and people watch or hang and chat with a friend.

My only hope is that they develop a more interesting non-alcoholic menu with some good quality coffee drinks and appetizers.

A great addition and re-establishment of Houston's oldest bar/lounge!

Highly recommend!

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Skinhead98

Joined 3 years ago

smoking allowed. im so glad we can smoke in here.....

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GOTTIGUY

Joined 5 years ago

Coolest old joint in town..... Seeing as how I was never a "regular" at this place, I am happy I found it. After eating at REEF one night, me and my girl decided to venture over. How cool is this place? It's the perfect after dinner hang-out and the drinks are great. Still un-pretentious in the Mid-Town district, thank goodness they still exit, it was refreshing. I see these reviews about the old bartenders and how great they were and the insults ppl seem to hurl since they have been gone. Granted I didn't know them but the new one on Saturday night was great. Very accommodating but not over-bearing and all in your conversation unless invited. Obviously she knows how to read a guest. Tall, dark-haired girl with pretty eyes. I highly reccommend this place for it's nostalgic feel, personable staff, drink prices, and the owner seems to take care of his ppl. He is a nice guy who introduced himself as Greg(g)? In today's day you don't find many owners so involved in their businesses. Great to see they still exist. Oh, and we went back this last Saturday night and they had a live musician by the name of Sheila Marshall. Holy S++t!!!That girl rocked!! Bar was way crowded and everyone was having a blast. So to all of those who have written a nasty review......seems you have some relation to the bartenders who perhaps got fired.

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bargal500

Joined 5 years ago

not what it used to be. I used to go to leon's on the weekends for the friendly bartenders, and cool atmosphere well I went in the other night to see if Jason was working, and he wasn't there some idiot girl without a lick of personality working. I'm all for hiring eye candy but come on at least put the eye candy with another decent friendly bartender. The reason I used to love this place was that when I wanted to go to another bar without the typical midtown atmosphere I could come here. It looks to me like they're trying to make leon's into something it's not.

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chizzillin

Joined 5 years ago

Eh, nothing special anymore. I've been to this little bar a few times, and what kept me coming back were the friendly and funny bartenders. Without a great staff, a bar is just a bar. Well.......the friendly and funny bartenders aren't there anymore!! Where did you go?? So now, this place is nothing special. The prices are about the same as most, and the atmosphere is average. Just another bar.

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abogadodave

Joined 6 years ago

used to be a neat relaxing atmosphere. See the below reviews-unfortunately the owner ran off the bartenders responsible for the good reviews, so abagadodave vacates his earlier remarks and now issues this opinion. Leon's is lousy now and Greg has little to blame but himself. Just shows how much a misguided owner in this industry can crash a great place.

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haleymarie85

Joined 5 years ago

Great Hole in the Wall. This bar is exactly what a bar should be. Its your friendly neighborhood bar downtown and right off the metro rail. Everyone at the bar is laid-back and there to have a good time and listen to the juke box. The drinks are excellently priced.

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idrinkhouston

Joined 5 years ago

I cant believe what I just read.... The bartender at this bar absolutely makes the place! The author of the review May 3 slamming the bartenders might be someone with a personal grudge, maybe an ex-girlfriend of former employee? With out the personality behind the bar this place would be just like every other hole in the wall that dots the Houston scene. Having said that: good prices, interesting crowd, nice smoking area, piano open for all to play, intereestig drink specials durring the week, great juke box and plenty of parking. The only day I would avoid going is Wednesday, I been up there on two Wednesdays and it is usually dead and the regular bartender wasn't there so the service was really lacking. Thursday - Saturday are great!

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summers67

Joined 5 years ago

my new favorite bar. Wow! Talk about time warp. A couple of friends and I went to Midtown to see what the big deal was and after trying a couple of the hot spots, we passed up Leon's and the curiosity got to us. The old insignificant storefront made us look at each other and say "Why not?"! O.K.service, cool atmosphere, totally laid-back. This place is old school dive. Jukebox could be updated. Great place to chill.

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komashu

Joined 5 years ago

great place if you hate yourself!. first off, they don't have much to offer in terms of drinks in comparison to most places. the wine was old and quite possibly boone's farm.

my favorite part was trying to close out my tab and waiting 20 minutes. they were too busy doing shots and being wasted to actually concern themselves with the other half of the bar. the best part was one of the bartenders walked away while my friend was talking to him about which tab to close. and not in the 'he heard her anyway' kind of way. it was more like in the "i hate my life so much that i hope i tick you off so much that you shoot me in the eye" sort of way.

vinyl ranch is really cool for the music. but if you actually want to drink...not so much. maybe if they got bartenders that can take care of business, but it seems to have been this way as far as i can remember, though never as bad as tonight!