Chef Aaron Bludorn and team to open second restaurant in Rice Village

Husband-and-wife duo chef Aaron Bludorn and restaurateur Victoria Pappas Bludorn will open their second concept in a former Rice Village food hall in the summer of 2022.

Cherif Mbodji, Bludorn’s general manager, will also serve as a partner in the yet-to-be-named concept. Together, the three have led Bludorn, a restaurant that opened in August 2020 in the Allen Parkway corridor west of downtown Houston.

Preston Cunningham of Cunningham Ventures represented the Bludorns in leasing the 7,100-square-foot…