HandleBar

Blake is the best bartender you need to get your drinks from him! He will service your from a 10/10

Great place I'm on vacation from the U.K. and use this place Friday and Saturdays great staff and great music

Overall 4/5: We stumbled upon this place our first night in Houston. It was a super cool spot, just not so many people at the time and day we went. Drinks 4/5: Super good, one of the best AMF's we had in Houston. Vibe 4/5: Chill vibe at the time we went. There was lots of seating and games to play. The music was nice. Service 4/5: The bartender was really cool and friendly. The staff there was all super nice. Would highly recommend this place. Thank you, HandleBar.

Look ma! I can ride with no handlebars! HandleBar is located on Washington in a busy district full of bars and restaurants. I've been twice with my most recent visit taking place on St. Paddy's Day. I like HandleBar don't get me wrong. Northing really stands out about this bar for me though. Same sort of set up as Kung Fu minus the arcade games. A long rectangular bar with somewhat slow service and loud music.

I've been going here for years and never in my life have I experienced something so racist and dense. I waited at the bar with my card in hand on a Saturday night in plain sight of the bartender. He served at least 5-7 people before me. Guess the color - white. I never in my life felt blatant discrimination given the amount of times and $ I've given this establishment. My white friend (woman) ordered two shots for my friend given it's her birthday - she arrived about 5-6 post my arrival at the bar and I asked the bartender if he was able to serve me. He stated "she was first" and pointed towards my white friend who has just walked up to the bar. I told him that I was standing there for about max 10 minutes and he then proceeded to say he was ready after he realized he served my white friend before me (who he thought was a random). Don't come here.

I met a friend here to grab a quick bite before starting our night. They have two food stands options. One was a cheesesteak stand. When I walked up the vendors just looked at me as if they were lost as to why I was even there. No greeting or nothing. So i went to the taco truck to check out their menu. I got a chicken Gordita and an elote. The elote was completely cold and I informed them so they remade it for me. It was my first time trying a gordita and theirs was ok. I'd stick to a quesadilla, burrito or taco next time. I took my food to my table and the waitress came by to take my drink order. You can also order from your phone so that's pretty nice. I got a sidecar and it was good. The place is a nice sportsbar in the Heights area, with inside and patio seating. Tvs and a DJ. Definitely a nice spot to stop by during your bar hop.

Hi, I wrote a review on 11/30 and can see it has already been taken down, so I will just have to reiterate my experience at Handlebar. I arrived at Handlebar with a group of friends who are all Latino. We waited very calmly & patiently in the line for a solid 30-40 minutes. Once we got up to the line, we were admitted entry. It was about 2 minutes after being in the bar when a bald bouncer immediately asked us to leave without an explanation. This experience directly correlates with a review a customer named Andrew R & Sophia left recently. Andrew's review states :"I went with a group of my coworkers on a Saturday night. We were all standing in the outside portion of the bar in a circle talking for about half an hour before this man (bald with tattoos on his head, apparently the bouncer) came and tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to come with him. I followed him until we got to the entrance to the place, then he kicked me out. I asked him why I had to leave and he refused to give me an answer, only telling me to leave"I had the exact thing happen to me. No, I was not drunk or being a nuisance. When I asked why we were getting kicked out, he provided no answer and starting pushing me, a young woman, out of the bar. I felt violated having a grown man like that place his hands on me. As a woman, it was absolutely disgusting. I waited in line for 30 minutes to be man handled by a bouncer who was half naked. Disgusting. Really makes you wonder if this was racially motivated. My group of friends were the only minorities in the line who got kicked out. As someone who is a young professional, I genuinely felt discriminated because of my gender and ethnicity. My family owns several businesses in the Heights and no one will be taking there business here. You can keep deleting my comments. I have no problem reposting until they stay up and/or contacting the BBB. Thank you.

I had a great time at handlebar. Me and my friends went here late on Friday night, probably around midnight. It was still really busy though, and the vibes were great. The music was just ok though.The bar was really inviting and everyone seemed really friendly. I liked the second back room.my friends loved playing the basketball arcade games. We stayed till close, and it was a great experience. I didn't get a drink so I'm not sure how they were.I'd happily go back here! Overall, 10/10

Me and some friends went here on New Year's Eve, the atmosphere was fun and it seemed like a cute place. Although one bartender was extremely rude. My boyfriend and a friend ordered some drinks from a shorter brunette girl and I walked up, she asked for my drink, and I asked what they had ordered, she looked at me, waves her hand in my face, says "uh uh", walks away, doesn't serve us, and starts serving someone else. It was busy so we had to waiting all over again. I am also a bartender, this was very gross and uncalled for. I saw her throw her hand around at other people and making faces a couple times at other guests throughout the night.Towards the end of the night a fried and I ran out to the parking lot for a jacket, we made sure to ask the bouncer if we would be able to just come back in, he said yes. So we go out and talk for a little bit, grab the jacket and we're walking back and it starts pouring raining, so we ran back to the door where the bouncer yelled no at us and made us turn around and wait in a very long like to get back but didn't check our IDs a second time. Very pointless to not let us in if he wasn't gonna check our ids again and to tell us we could come back that way. He was bald with tattoos.Over all an okay experience outside of those two staff members we dealt with. Wouldn't recommend. If you hate what you do that much, quit. I don't ever leave reviews but this was just not okay.

I was very unimpressed with the drinks. Tried two drinks from their "mules" menu, the cucumber vodka was fighting with the ginger beer in one, and the rum, pineapple and ginger beer in the other was a muddled mess. So I tried their frozen piña colada and it had a weird bitter aftertaste. The most interesting sounding drinks were only served in the Magnum PI room, which didn't start serving until 9 PM. Also, a small cockroach ran up out of the straws on the bar and I had to kill it with the bottom of my chipped enamel cup.