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Forlorn fans of the shuttered Houston restaurant Fresco Italiano — some who quite literally wept when chef/owner Roberto Crescini announced he was closing up shop and heading back to Italy — take a moment to rejoice. Crescini is back. He’s now pa…
Read MoreJames Beard Award-winning Houston chef and restaurateur Chris Shepherd has leveled up. And up and up. . . Shepherd’s latest restaurant endeavor — Georgia James Version 2.0 — transplants the once manly and boisterous former Montrose-area steakhous…
Read MoreRestaurateur Greg Katz has vision. And a lot of it. Nearly four years ago, he saw past a once unassuming block of clubs dotted along Fitzhugh Avenue to envision Beverley’s, a buzzy Dallas bistro in the former stead of BJ’s gay bar, and made it a stylis…
Read MoreFond of French food? Particularly La Table’s Loup de Mer Grille or the Houston restaurant’s rustic but refined herb roasted chicken? Then don’t make haste and reserve your seat before the lauded French restaurant closes this Saturday, July 2 for …
Read MoreWhen you know, you know. Christina Sulien knew deep inside that it was amore when, at the age of 22, she met Alfredo Mojica. In fact, she told her mother that night, “I’m going to marry him.” The pair worked at Houston’s Da Marco restaurant — she…
Read MoreIt looks like old home week for restauranteurs (and Texans) Anthony Hitchcock and chef Tony Gentile, who met as students more than two decades ago at the University of Houston’s Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management. The duo…
Read MoreIt looks like there’s a new Mexican restaurant in Houston. El Venado is set to open this Monday, June 13 in the former Revolver restaurant space at 6502 Washington Avenue. Billed as a modern cantina, El Venado will be serving up specialty drinks spiked…
Read MoreIf you live to eat (and appreciate a good bottle of wine, too), you’ll want to keep the upcoming Wine and Food Week in The Woodlands on your calendar. It returns next week — Monday, June 6 through Sunday, June 12. Produced by Food & Vine Pro…
Read MoreGood things take time, and in the case of award-winning chef Tyson Cole’s latest endeavor, it’s took nearly 12 years of refining his modern Japanese restaurant Uchiko, before he unveiled it in Houston last week. Only the second iteration of the s…
Read MoreIt’s all in the family. The Houston-born and bred brother-sister team of Angelo Emiliani and Lucianna “Louie” Emiliani have come home again to open their very first restaurant. Called Cafe Louie, it’s in the burgeoning East End. Situated in a con…
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