Dean's Downtown

I was telling my wife that I would love to find a lounge! Comfortable chairs and great drinks. This fit the bill! Chill inside with couches and chairs. Excellent liquor choices. Comfortable bar stools which I seem to find rare these days. Even extends outside if you're a smoker or want to people watch.

This bar was very fun! The drinks were reasonably priced (their happy hour was listed at $5 for most cocktails between 5-8pm) and well made-the best I'd had all evening. The decorations, full screen showing Full House, and music choice was fun and well balanced (not too loud). There was a speed dating event, and the bartenders were doing great keeping the first-timers well stocked with drinks even as they were moving around every few minutes. Will definitely come back on a night without an event listed, and hopefully for the happy hour!

Visited on a Sunday night, nice vibe. We were walking downtown and heard the music blasting so we decided to stick our head in. Pleasantly surprised and glad that we made the decision to stop. The DJ was playing a hip hop mashup and it was chef's kiss. He said he's there on the weekends, so go and check him out. Mixed crowd and everyone was in the groove. The place itself was cool, like a friend's living room or something, idk if that's the intention but it was cozy. Good history on the place, it's an OG spot and has outlasted many other bars in downtown.Drinks were reasonably priced during normal hours. NO FOOD ugh I'm sad about that lol I am not sure if you can bring food, somebody lmk if so :)Not packed at the time that I visited, but the bartender on duty was on the slower side. Ordered margaritas at the bar before I even looked at the menu. It was horrible and super bitter. Sent mine back immediately for the aforementioned reasons, bartender guy said he could just make it sweeter. Skeptical, I just ordered a drink from the menu. The Mink Mink Mink was way better for me.Cute spot if you're bar-hopping downtown and need a little flavor in your scenery lol

Top bar in Houston!!! Super fun , great music , & great drinks ' great vibes ! Super fun place to hang out !

Such a fun vibe at this historic downtown bar. They have a great Happy Hour... the Old Fashioned is only $5! And the bar tenders are fun and mix up great drinks! (we loved Chris)The lounge feel and comfy furniture adds to the overall vibe here. It's a smaller bar but still plenty of space to gather with your group of friends. We enjoyed all the drinks we tried but our overall faves were the Old Fashioned and Whiskey Sour. They don't serve food but Franks Pizza a block away will deliver so if you want some munchies with your drinks, just order online and enjoy with your cocktails. We have added this to our ongoing rotation for HH's downtown!

Went over last Sunday for an after-work drink.Ordered a double gin & tonic. All good till this point.As soon as I take 1-2 sips, the bartender started fighting with two clients. They all start throwing stuff to each other, and me being right next to them my drink gets spilled. So after the whole commotion is over, I ask the bartender if she can remake my drink, I tell her that it was a double gin and tonic, and I see her pour a single (I'm a bartender, I know what an 1.5 oz pour looks like), even after I remind her that it's a double, she doesn't pour any more Gin into it.Anyways things get worse when I realize that this new glass is cracked, probably due to the recent fight, which makes me have to ask for ANOTHER double gin & tonic. This time she actually gives me a double so maybe it was a blessing in disguise that my other drink's glass was shattered.Anyways I was only there for 30-45 mins and all this made me feel the vibe that I was bothering the bartender by asking for something that was rightfully mine. Don't remember who the bartender was but it was a chubby white looking girl.

Dean's is a spot I happened upon. The crowd is laid back and chill. The bartender recommended this shot with green tea and Jameson and it was delicious ! Dean's I will be back. It's like a little hideout spot. Check it out..the ambiance is nice!

Great environment and excellent staff! Brittannie is the manager and is incredible! It's a downtown bar with a small town feel!

We stumbled across this cute and low-key cocktail bar while looking for pre-dinner drinks in Houston's lively and hip downtown bar district early on a Friday evening. We were enchanted by this spot's stylish old-school decor and front patio decked out with antique furniture, making for an exceedingly comfy happy hour. We happened to catch the tail-end of happy hour, and she went with a Tom Collins, where I had the Ranch Water, both for an unreal price. We followed that up with another Tom Collins for her and very spicy Hound Dog for me that really kickstarted the evening. On top of the friendly service, Dean's stands out as one of the best hangouts in town.

I have run into a few Deans downtown, such as Dean Martin, Richard Dean Anderson, Dean Cain (that man felt like steel) and the Dean of admissions of the University Of Houston.But this one was new to me.I heard great things about the old Dean's, but the new one didn't really do it for me. I found the drinks to not be that great and Barbi - who is a drink expert - was not feeling them.It's priced like an expensive bar but looks like a cheap bar. I know there are a lot of bars like that now, but if you're going to charge this much for drinks, you better be really good.