The Popcorn Bar

DELICIOUS! The Dill Pickle popcorn is what my dreams are made of. They have so many flavors — both savory and sweet. And the prices are reasonable. I feel like this is a hidden gem in Houston. Flavored popcorn makes a great gift or as just a treat for yourself! I’m strongly considering offering tiny bags of Chicago Mix (cheddar and caramel) popcorn as the favor at my upcoming wedding. Just writing this review is making me crave the dill pickle popcorn…

I absolutely love the popcorn bar. My favorites are the pickled cowboy and Spicy Buffalo Wings. The staff is very friendly and helpful. I love grabbing a few bags for movie nights or even when I’m going to the movies. My friends also love snacking on them with wine at our book club meetings.

FINALLY came here, and it has been on my to do list for almost 2 years! I am a popcorn addict! I totally ate some of their popcorn for breakfast that morning. It’s a pretty small shop, however they have a HUGE selection of popcorn flavors, from bacon cheddar to oreos. They also have many sizes to select from as well as gift tin cans if you like. The tin cans be anything from birthday celebrations to college football themed (A&M/UT). Everything here is cute and affordable.
I ordered the dill pickle and bacon cheddar combined for myself, and the buffalo with Parmesan cheese for my coworkers.
The Bacon Cheddar is explosively flavorful!!! Very high in butter and fat, but what do you expect? I loved the dill pickle, perfectly sour. And my coworkers loved the Parmesan with buffalo! Both junior bags totaled out to less than $ 9.
One complain was that it was SUPER cold, one of the other customers also complained of the same thing and she was in a jean jacket.
Great place, come here if you want delicious and unique popcorn.

I love popcorn period. so candied, savory, and chocolate makes it even better. So many choices that you can sample. Service was great and we walked out with way more than we needed. Definitely coming back.

So many flavored but my favorite is the Oreo one bite and you are hooked. They have accessories as well like team buckets, truly best popcorn I have ever had

The Popcorn Bar is a great place if you want to shake up your snack stash and go beyond the usual candy and chips. There’s an overwhelmingly large variety of flavors here, categorized as either savory and sweet. I stuck to the savory ones out of preference. My favs being the buffalo wings and bacon cheddar.
Their flavored popcorn tastes true to its name, as you definitely can taste the Tabasco and ranch in the buffalo wing mix. Best of all are the reasonable prices, allowing you to easily grab a few small/​mini-​sized bags of different flavors. Which you can sneak into a movie theater and secretly munch on in the dark… but you didn’t hear that from me!

Just threw $ 40 away… bought three different flavors didn’t like either. They must use really cheap chocolate for the chocolate pecan. It was horrible. The Carmel nut supreme has a weird after taste from whatever sweeter the use and my bag only has 3 visible nuts. I now understand their sign about no refunds or exchanges. They must of had lots of customers try to return popcorn.

We walked in and were greeted immediately and asked if we had been there before. She explained the menu and let us browse on our own. I tried the strawberry shortcake and loved it so got a small bag then also got a bag of caramel. Both are delicious and hard to put down. With excellent customer service and a great product I will definitely be back! Easy to get to as well right off the freeway across from Lakewood Church.

This place has some incredible flavor options, friendly staff, and reasonable prices. Tried it today for the first time and will definitely be heading back in the future.
Try the banana pudding it’s crazy delicious and unique.

Love love love the popcorn bar. I’m regularly coming for my sour cream & cheddar fix along with something different every time. Today? Dr pepper flavor. Really. So yum and it actually tastes like dr. Pepper. Ask for a sample! I’m certainly not shy about asking for samples of something that sounds weird but might be great! Dill pickle is a great example of that. So. Good. Trying peanut butter & chocolate next time I think.

I really wanted to like Popcorn Bar. It’s within walking distance from home (for me), the customer service is always outstanding, and Houston is in dire need of gourmet popcorn worth craving. Sadly, this just doesn’t meet that last mark. As others have noted, the popcorn is mass-​produced and stored in tubs. The sheer variety of flavors may demand this production model, but if you can’t do it well why do it all subpar?
I’ve been here about four times over the past year, each time hoping that a different flavor or different day of the week might yield a different experience, but I’m sure I’ve reached my limit. My particular grievance is with the caramel and candy types. The cheeses and powdery kind of flavors are tolerable, though the popcorn isn’t exactly fresh. But the caramels and candies seem to deteriorate the most; if you eat more than five pieces you may find, like I did, that your teeth are no longer chewing because there is a hard layer of candy just sitting on top of your molars.
I would really love if the Popcorn Bar reconceptualized their production model. I wouldn’t mind waiting, as I have in Chicago at Garrett’s Popcorn, for wonderfully fresh and flavored popcorn with fewer flavor options.

Stopped here for the first time on Sunday.
We bought the mini bags in kettle corn, caramel with cashews and snickers.
The kettle corn tasted pretty good nothing special, the Snickers was pretty good but besides the few pieces of snickers it just tasted like chocolate covered popcorn. And the caramel with cashews well I found one cashew in the bag! I should have just bought the caramel popcorn and saved myself some money, It also tasted very stale.
I don’t think I’ll be going back.

They have the best flavored popcorn in the city. Even though it’s on the opposite side of the city from me I have to go every other week or so. They are numerous flavors to chose from. I like the cowboy dill and the baked potato. There price may be a little more than others but it’s well worth it! It’s located on Hwy 59 near the Lakewood church. Right now there is construction going on in that area so traffic can be a little congested. JusT turn on your music and cruise there.

Saw this place off the highway. I am a true popcorn lover so I navigated through heavy construction to get there. I was not disappointed! Perfect blend of flavors and the best popcorn I have had in a long time! Great customer service ensured I will be back as a return customer!

You go up to the counter, you order, you get your popcorn. Not only is this place no nonsense, but the staff are friendly and always willing to let you try samples, or recommend their favorites if you’re intimidated by the huge menu. And though we have yet to try more than a few flavors here, the ones we’ve tried so far have been enough to have us coming back time and again, and net this place a 5 star rating.
Loaded Baked Potato — Cheese powder, sour cream powder, bacon bits and dried chives, and not one flavor overpowers the others. You might want to call ahead to see if they have this, because it seems to sell out fast.
Jalapeño Cheddar — I love Jalapeño Cheetos, but hated how the very mild Jalapeño flavor would disappear after a few bites. This stuff on the other hand is the real deal — not only is it actually spicy, but you can taste the peppers right to the bottom of the bag.
Houston Style — This one’s my favorite. Almost identical to the chicago style (⁵⁰⁄₅₀ mix of caramel corn and cheese) but with DOUBLE cheese. Who could say no to that?
A ‘mini’ size is more than enough for one person — and between us and three friends tonight we barely managed to put a dent in one ‘junior’ (Houston Style) and one ‘small’ (Baked Potato). Great value for money. As long as this place stays open, we’ll be loyal customers.

I was given a bag of popcorn (Oreos’ flavored) from the Popcorn Bar as a gift and since I had recently used the Poparazzi Popcorn for my wedding favors, I definitely wanted to make a visit and compare. The Oreos’ flavored popcorn was soooo good.
On finally making a visit, I did some sampling. I found PB was a lot more flexible about sampling than Poparazzi. Poparazzi asked me to make an appointment for sampling, which I thought was unnecessary. She probably thought I was going to be excessive in my sampling. I can understand that.
At PB, I think I tried 7 flavors and ended up sticking with the Oreos and I ended up getting one in mini size. It’s just so good! Denyse got the Jalapeño Cheddar which was really good too. Cameran, who is 9, initially didn’t want any, but later when I forced her to try one, she couldn’t stop eating them. On the other flavors, I thought were all pretty good. The buffalo and ranch, salt and vinegar, and other were good. However, I didn’t like their Chicago mix as much as I do at other places.
PB also has candies and tins for gifting. They’re located off 59 near Buffalo Speedway, a much better location than the other gourmet popcorn shops. It’s a fun place to visit, but for me, I must restrict my visits and practice self control! But when I am feeling not so controlled… I’ll probably be hitting up the Popcorn Bar!
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ok, so I have found my 5-​star popcorn heaven! They have a great selection going on here and a huge upside is you can sample as many as you want (no limit) which is great when you’re going in wanting to buy several but want to make sure you like what you’re buying first.
I arrived just before they opened this morning and was assisted by young Miss Meredith; she is a fantastic salesperson. She is extremely informative and helpful and has excellent people skills. She seems very genuine (not like she HAS to be nice for her job). I really loved that my first experience here was with her.
So as it turned out, it seems both Meredith and myself have quite the same taste when it comes to the sweeter flavors: we don’t really dig extremely sweet, which is great because this helped in my selection and tastings.
Here’s what I tasted:
Mac ‘n cheese — cheesy & yummy
Mojito — very sweet and didn’t really find much of any minty lime flavor
Cinnamon Toast Crunch — not too overbearing in sweetness and overall perfect!
Peanut Butter w/​Chocolate — not extremely sweet, very peanut buttery with right amt of chocolate.
Chocolate Mint — mint sneaks up on you and is perfect balance with the dark chocolate but still found it to be too sweet for my personal liking
Dill Pickle — seriously very pickley tasting (LOL) and shockingly good!
Fried Pickle — combo of dill pickle & kettle corn — interesting but did not really taste like fried pickle, lol
Pickled Cowboy — combo of dill pickle & ranch — DELISH!
SEE, so I did get a good sampling, not like the other place that limits you to 2. Plus I asked Meredith about combining White Cheddar with their Sea Salt & Cracked Pepper because I love Doc Popcorn’s combo of White Cheddar & Cracked Pepper; she told me this combo would perfect because their White Cheddar is a Basil White Cheddar which I thought would be a totally killer combo too!
So as it turned out, I ordered 5 bags: Mini Buffalo Wings (eating this now as I type & is super fantastic!), Mini Parmesan Garlic, Mini Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Junior Pickled Cowboy (could NOT pass this up) and Junior Sea Salt & Cracked Pepper w/​White Cheddar Combo. I must tell you that I nearly flipped to find out my order was just over $ 12! At the other place, I had picked up 8 bags, mostly minis & pd well over $ 32 plus my order was wrong! Another young lady bought a slew of bags & her order was under $ 30! Oh yeah, plus they had to make Sea Salt & Cracked Pepper because they were out, and the young man in the back came up front to let me know he was making a fresh batch & that it’d be just a few minutes (perfecto!)
I am definitely going to tell my friends and family members about this place! I think you should give them a try. They are located on the northbound side of the 59 feder where the Genghis Grill and Kolache Factory are located. Seriously give them a try, because they are definitely worth it; plus the popcorn does taste really fresh and crispy, not stale or have an oily residue from sitting too long.
DO check ‘em out & hopefully Meredith will be able to help you too!

Awesome place for popcorn lovers!!!
I’ve been meaning to write a review about this place and now that the school year is coming to close, I’ll have some extra time on my hands… woo hoo!!!
I’ve driven by this place wondering, «What is a popcorn bar? It couldn’t be a bar full of popcorn could it?» Well curiosity got the best of me and I finally stopped by to check it out.
I walked in not knowing what to expect and I am so happy that I stopped by because this has become one of my favorite places to grab a special treat for myself and others.
The store is quite simple. There isn’t much to the décor. They have their gift packaging items on display as well as a small self-​serve by the pound candy selection. The thing that is the most amazing is the selection of popcorn flavors that they have. Unfortunately there’s no visual as to what each flavor looks like and I don’t know if they offer samples (I haven’t tried asking yet), so you kind of go off what you believe the combination of flavors would taste like (they’re pretty true to the name of the flavor).
So far everything that I have tried from this place has not disappointed me. The flavors I have tried so far:
Confetti (mixture of different fruit flavors… rainbow colored popcorn)
Dill pickle (awesome!)
Buffalo Wings (combination of the wing flavor and ranch flavored popcorn)
Chocolate Peanut Butter (delicious)
Pizza (tastes just like you think it would… addicting!)
Cinnamon Toast Crunch (one of my favorite sweet treats)
Crème soda (tastes just like a crème soda)
Southwest Jalapeño (definitely has a kick to it)
Toffee Almond (another great sweet treat)
As you can see, I have visited this place a lot and I plan on coming back. The sales associates are friendly and willing to give you some tips on which flavor you might like better if you just ask.
So if you’re in the area, it’s worth the stop in.

I am a popcorn fiend!
What this place lacks in a punny name (like Cornucopia and Popparazzi) it makes up for in tasty treats.
The first time I came, I got several small bags. The white cheddar is WONDERFUL. The spicy buffalo wing is very good. I also tried the peanut butter chocolate and butterfinger.
Recently I went back and bought a JUMBO bag of the white cheddar for poker night. It was way more than enough and only $ 24.
The chocolate flavors get a little pricey, but those are better in smaller quantities anyway.

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Amaizing (corny) Gift idea: Popcorn in a tin. Pick among a large number of fl@vors. Put the tin, the popcorn bag (small, medium, l@rge, huge), the p@dding/stuffing in the tin, perhaps with some accessories (like small individual size bags), in a cellophane bag, closed with a décor@tive ribbon, and voila! Gift!
They let you try the flavors (but, I think they h@ve an egg timer to avoid giving away samples too quickly).
The popcorn is fresh, evenly coated*, nice flavor (most are not too s@lty), and each piece is like a little ball. Not many broken fr@gments at the bottom of the bag, either.
* For the bond to the popcorn, the powder is «shaken, not stirred.»
Of course, this comes @ a price. But it’s a bit cheaper than theatre popcorn, and tastier. This is gre@t for a lazy home theatre host.
I filled my husk with:
@ The Southwest Jalapeño (the hottest one) … medium for $ 11
@ Caramel Pecan (they are not too skimpy on the nuts) … small for $ 8 ouch… but it’s a gift
The «bar» analogy is rather strange, as is the martini logo. You don’t order and eat at the bar. Unlike a bar, here you take it to go (there are no chairs/​stools, either).
The day after: I had a pepper hangover (stomach did not feel right). It also seemed saltier than I originally thought. And the caramel that tasted so good as a sample, was not as good as Cr@cker J@ck or the Boy Scout Trailmix in a tin.
On the whole, it is still a good and different gift idea. So, there may be a kernel of truth to the statement that they are ear to stay for awhile.