Restaurant Openings

Back in mid-March when Texas governor Greg Abbott ordered restaurant dining rooms to close, the husband-and-wife team of chef Hugo Ortega and restaurateur Tracy Vaught chose to temporarily shutter their Oaxacan restaurant, Xochi. With restaurants now allowed to have up to 75% guest occupancy, Xochi — located on the first floor of the Marriott Marquis […]

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Houston restaurant group Delicious Concepts, owned by Ken Bridge, has repurposed the space that housed recently shuttered Blackbird Izakaya (and, prior to that, Republic Diner + Soju Bar and Witchcraft Tavern) with yet another new concept, Robot Noodle. The restaurant is located at 1221 West 11th and opened the day after an Instagram announcement featuring […]

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Just a little over a month after closing Bistro Provence at 13616 Memorial, thus concluding a 22-year run, owner Genevieve Guy has unveiled her brand-new restaurant concept in the same location, Bistro 555. The setting has a refreshed and updated look, sporting deep, sky blue walls that nicely set off many paintings of French landscapes, […]

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For many, fresh-baked bread is comfort food and Houston is about to get more of this needed solace. White Elm Café Bakery is opening on August 11 at 14079 Memorial Drive. This joint effort from Christopher “Chico” Ramirez of Dinner Table Investments (formerly a partner in Field & Tides and The Boot), Tasos Katsaounis of Bread […]

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At noon on Sunday, July 12, the longstanding restaurant group Goode Company is debuting a to-go-only Southern restaurant. Called Goode Bird, it is operating from the Armadillo Palace kitchen at 5015 Kirby. The specialities include fried chicken, roasted chicken, biscuits with sea salt and honey butter, deviled eggs, breaded fried okra and slow-simmered collard greens. […]

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As the Houston restaurant scene tries to work its way towards a new “normal,” we have resumed our monthly Hit List of new restaurants we think you might like to try. Understandably, there have been few new openings since dining rooms where shut down in mid-March due to COVID-19 (dining rooms were allowed to reopen […]

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In a mid-afternoon press conference, Texas governor Greg Abbott said that he’s allowing his stay-at-home order to expire as planned at midnight on April 30. On May 1, restaurants are allowed to resume dine-in services — but only at 25% of the stated occupancy, which is a number initially determined by the local fire marshal […]

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