MONTROSE
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Montrose is a pocket of eccentricity: a flamboyantly jagged jigsaw piece that lends the greater Houston picture a vivid splash of multi-chromatic verve. Here, within a vibrant four square miles, you’ll find a stew of newcomer restaurants, cocktail bars, and art galleries rubbing shoulders with tattoo parlors, palm readers, and vintage clothing stores.
Since 1910, Montrose has been described as “the heart of Houston” and “the strangest neighborhood east of the Pecos,” but the neighborhood's true beauty lies in the fact that it contains something for everyone. This is, after all, the neighborhood where a young Lyndon B. Johnson worked as a teacher, where an ambitious Howard Hughes dreamed of the heavens, and where a twenty-something Clark Gable studied acting.
That inveterate mix of creativity and virtuosity is still alive and well in modern Montrose: It’s there in world-class art museums and galleries like the Menil Collection and Rothko Chapel, as well as in the innovative local boutiques and artisan stores—and in the game-changing restaurants, here in the city's foodie bullseye