The Houston restaurant world has high hopes for The Heights. The neighborhood exploded a while back, transitioning from a quaint little spot with bungalows to a land bursting with upscale apartment complexes and every kind of restaurant imaginable. Just when you think it couldn’t get any bigger, it is. The Heights is in the midst...
Currently, Houston only has one location of Common Bond, but the bakery could add as many as five new locations in the next 12 months, owner George Joseph tells CultureMap. Joseph, who purchased the Montrose bakery in 2016, recently came to a cordial end of his partnership with local restaurateur Johnny Carrabba. “Obviously now [Carrabba is] trying...
Editor’s note: Houston’s restaurant scene moves pretty fast. In order to prevent CultureMap readers from missing anything, let’s stop to look around at all the latest news to know. Openings, closings, and coming attractions Local diner institution House of Pies has opened its fourth Houston-area outpost in The Woodlands. Located at 1330 Lake Woodlands Dr., diners can get...
Houston is dynamic and ever-changing. New restaurants are springing up every day. There’s more and more entertainment all the time. It’s true what they say: If you build it, they will come. The Bayou City’s very own Construction Concepts is responsible for building a number of the outstanding new additions. Construction Concepts’ 2018 portfolio is enough to...
Many Houstonians live and breathe by their morning cup and, these days, there’s a world of coffee joints from which to choose. BlendIn Coffee Clubin Sugar Land not only imports single origin beans from across the globe, but roasts them in-house, on site. You could travel to Columbia, Ethiopia or Yemen on espressos alone. V60, Siphon,...
The Original Ninfa’s on Navigation is expanding to Blvd Place, a mixed-use development in Houston’s Galleria area. The Mexican restaurant will open in late spring 2019 in the 6,326-square-foot space at 1700 Post Oak Blvd., #1-190, which was originally occupied by Peska, according to press releases from Legacy Restaurants and Blvd Place owner Whitestone REIT (NYSE: WSR)....
While road construction continues outside Harry’s Restaurant and Cafe, a decades-old breakfast and lunch destination on the edge of Montrose and Midtown, the restaurant powered down in early July to make some much-needed renovations inside. “Yes, we are remodeling,” one of the owners John Platsas told Chron.comthis week. “We’re powering through to make everything better.” Construction...
Success is savored in many ways — shopping, traveling, wining and dining. And for some, success is the door to giving back. Such is the case with Josh Weismanand Mark Bordman, whose good fortune with their custom design and build-out firm prompted the duo to found a generous nonprofit. For a decade, they have been intermittently setting aside...
Usually when a restaurant announces that it’s “closed for renovations,” the phrase is code for “closed forever.” But sometimes it actually means that the 15-year grind of serving food to people seven days a week has taken a toll on a building that just needs a little TLC to function more smoothly. Such is the...
Business has been good for Construction Concepts thanks to Houston’s explosive restaurant industry. Read more here.. https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2018/07/27/houston-restaurant-designer-shares-latest-trends.html
