Notsuoh

Notsuoh The one and only Chess / Conversation / Art / Drinks / Live Music / Eccentricity Downtown Houston 314 Main Street ��
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a houston original ...looks like a dive but very real intelligent qand tolerant people

01/08/2026

Empty Heaven (Chicago)
Fern & Rocket
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Monday downstairs @ Notsuoh
(DJs by MicCheck upstairs in the Dome all night!)

21+ free show, just hand the bands your cash money if you like them. 🤑

This will be an epic Monday, do y’all know how easy it is to park downtown on a Monday? 🥂

As the marketer for this business, I can’t recommend Notsuoh on Mondays enough.

01/04/2026

Inquire about our birthday party rental packages today!

Not really, please don’t.
Just order an espresso martini instead.
🍸

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Who won the last chess game you played at Notsuoh? The Hibiscus Mule is one of our refreshing cocktails that pairs well ...
01/03/2026

Who won the last chess game you played at Notsuoh?

The Hibiscus Mule is one of our refreshing cocktails that pairs well with a thrilling game of mental strategy. ♟️

If you’re sipping one of these, everyone wins.

Unless you’re simply a winner and your opponent is simply a loser.

If that is the case, this cocktail will just taste good if you’re into this sort of thing.
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vodka • ginger beer • hibiscus syrup • lime

Have you tried our hand crafted cocktails? This one pairs especially well with burlesque💋 🔥🧊🥂 The Ginger Mary Ann Demera...
12/28/2025

Have you tried our hand crafted cocktails?

This one pairs especially well with burlesque
💋 🔥🧊🥂

The Ginger Mary Ann

Demerara rum / ginger beer / ginger syrup / bitters / allspice dram / lime / dried ginger

has another saucy Sunday show tonight, be sure to cool off with a beverage between acts! 🥂

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Happy Holidays from all your at Notsuoh. 🥂
12/25/2025

Happy Holidays from all your at Notsuoh.
🥂

Next Monday!Dec 22Zoo Mic : an all genre open mic atNotsuohSign up at 7pmCome share your original songs & poetry & pep t...
12/19/2025

Next Monday!
Dec 22

Zoo Mic : an all genre open mic at
Notsuoh
Sign up at 7pm
Come share your original songs & poetry & pep talks & opera solos & hip hop dances & dramatic monologues!

Sign up starts at 7 & will fill up fast!
- show starts at 8pm!

All Genres welcome

4th Mondays
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Fancy cocktails taste better when you’re deep in an uncanny valley. Come toast our artfully distressed mannequins with a...
12/17/2025

Fancy cocktails taste better when you’re deep in an uncanny valley.

Come toast our artfully distressed mannequins with an
Apple Empress French 75 at Notsuoh 🖤

Empress gin • lemon • sugar • apple bitters • Prosecco

🥂
*cheers*

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Next open mic night on Monday! Dec 22 — Rokit will be back to host All genres welcome. Original content encouraged. Sig...
12/17/2025

Next open mic night on Monday!
Dec 22 — Rokit will be back to host

All genres welcome.
Original content encouraged.
Sign up at 7!

Many thanks to .christopher_ for bringing his camera to the last open mic & capturing Notsuoh on film!

We ❤️ having photographers come to practice their skills on the artists & capturing the ever changing background that is Notsuoh.
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It was a pleasure hosting the one & only:PoetBass Clarinetist Shaman Thanks for including us on your Fabulous Fugitive ...
12/12/2025

It was a pleasure hosting the one & only:

Poet
Bass Clarinetist
Shaman



Thanks for including us on your Fabulous Fugitive Freedom Tour, old friend.

Great news, everyone : Green Chartreuse is back on the shelf at your favorite downtown maze of eccentricities / cocktail...
12/12/2025

Great news, everyone :

Green Chartreuse is back on the shelf at your favorite downtown maze of eccentricities / cocktail bar.

Come order our Last Word Cocktail — perfect for sipping through the holidaze.

And if you get lonely this time of year, we’ve got you:

We have mannequins you can drink with & some of them are even wearing Santa hats.

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#🎅🧑‍🎄🤶🥂

This Wednesday! Toussaint St. NegritudePoet, Bass Clarinetist & Shaman Back in town to share his new works! 8pm free wit...
12/08/2025

This Wednesday!

Toussaint St. Negritude
Poet, Bass Clarinetist & Shaman
Back in town to share his new works!
8pm free with drink purchase to get upstairs

“Launching the 2025/26 Fabulous Fugitive Freedom Tour, in direct defiance of the current occupation of artistic and cultural suppression, poet, bass clarinetist, composer, author, educator Toussaint St. Negritude is bringing his poetry of liberation to listeners across the country. Performing works from his 2025 Firebird Award winning collection of poems, Mountain Spells {Rootstock Publishing, 2024}, Toussaint St. Negritude presents a dynamic solo performance of liberational truth telling, collaboratively pairing the call of his poetry with the intuitive responses of the bass clarinet, and additional instrumentation. Through his own unique montage of poetry, jazz, and fabulous hats, Toussaint St. Negritude creates a cosmic spectacle of trans-dimensional journeys, summoning all sights, ears, and souls to rise to the poignant joys of our collective humanity.

For this tour, I will be performing poems from my recent collection of poems, Mountain Spells {Rootstock Publishing, 2024} https://www.rootstockpublishing.com/rootstock-books/p/mountain-spells, and will have books available for signing. I will also be premiering The Fabulous Fugitive Freedom Suite, a new and poignant composition of contra-alto clarinet and poetry. Here’s a great sample of my work, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZV6RWjPj8s As seen in this video, in addition to the other clarinets, I’m playing more of the larger Contra Alto Clarinet now, which creates such a rich deep conjuring of freedoms.”

Come by at 8pm on Wednesday to see him perform!

THIS WEDNESDAY Dec 10th8PMYou may remember him and/or his extraordinary hats from Houston’s art scene past — come say HI...
12/05/2025

THIS WEDNESDAY
Dec 10th
8PM

You may remember him and/or his extraordinary hats from Houston’s art scene past — come say HI! as he tours through Houston & shares some of his award winning poetry & performance!

The One
The Only


Self-taught on the bass clarinet, poet and hat maker extraordinaire, Toussaint St. Negritude blends the unique dual performance of his poetry and reeds, by intuitively interspersing his words within the compositions of his bass clarinet, and/or vice versa, while also orchestrating the flair of a well-poised hat.

21+ Buy a drink to get upstairs & see the free show!

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314 Main Street
Houston, TX
77002

Opening Hours

Monday 7pm - 2am
Tuesday 7pm - 2am
Wednesday 7pm - 2am
Thursday 7pm - 2am
Friday 7pm - 2am
Saturday 7pm - 2am
Sunday 7pm - 2am

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Notsuoh

A Houston original.

Chess / Conversation / Art /Drinks / Live Music / Eccentricity

“Artist Jim Pirtle renovated a nineteenth-century storefront building on Main Street in downtown Houston into a coffee bar/chess club/gallery/performance space that he dubbed notsuoH — Houston spelled backwards and the name of an early twentieth-century civic celebration. Notsuoh became one of the most notorious, complicated, experimental, social sculpture environments in Houston. On any given night, one could converse with physicists while playing chess with a homeless alcoholic against the background noise of a Japanese speed punk band.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Alternative_Art