Restaurant Openings

When it opened downtown in April 2016, Conservatory was Houston’s first food hall. After numerous issues with the space, it closed in December 2019, but Anh Mai, who co-owns the business with Lian Nguyen, said it would reopen elsewhere. The nature of that return has changed. Originally, Conservatory was to be relocated to where Chapman […]

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Like his great-grandmother, Lucille B. Smith — the inspiration for his Museum District restaurant Lucille’s — Chris Williams is a chef and an entrepreneur. He is launching a new company: Lucille’s Hospitality Group. The new organization will include Lucille’s and Lucille’s 1913, Williams’s nonprofit that has distributed over 150,000 meals to Houston residents in need, […]

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The Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s new Nancy and Rich Kinder Building at 5500 Main Street, which showcases a large collection of international modern and contemporary art, will soon also feature two new restaurants. This spring, New York-based Bastion Restaurants (formerly Invest Hospitality), which also owns La Table in Houston’s Galleria area, is bringing Michelin-starred […]

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Jason Cho, a Houston native and the restaurateur behind Dak & Bop, has opened the Bayou City’s second location of Tom N Toms, a Korean-based coffee house franchise. Located at 5353 West Alabama, this new outpost is in the same shopping center as Hidden Omakase and forthcoming new locations of Conservatory food hall and burger-chan. Houston’s […]

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The Heights has a new spot for street tacos, as The Burger Joint partners, chef Matthew Pak and Shawn Bermudez, opened The Taco Stand at 2018 North Shepherd on Wednesday, January 27. It’s just down the street from the second location of The Burger Joint, the first of which is in Montrose. In addition to […]

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“Chopped” champion and founder of the now-shuttered Bernie’s Burger Bus chain, Justin Turner, is opening two new restaurants in northwest Houston’s Generation Park. Bocca Italian Kitchen and Lupo Pizzeria, both currently in the soft-opening phase, are officially opening to the public on January 15. As the recently appointed Director of Culinary Hospitality at McCord Development’s […]

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Berg Hospitality has just announced that food from B.B. Italia Kitchen & Bar and B.B. Lemon, as well as select cuts of meat from The Butcher Shop at B&B, are now available for pickup and delivery from Galleria-area virtual food hall Fair Food Co. Located at 5832 Fairdale, the new ghost kitchen hub is operated […]

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Gulf Coast Distillers, Houston’s largest spirits distillery, is now serving food at Ben’s Den, its onsite tasting room. Located at 5610 Clinton in east Houston, the distillery is best known for Giant Bourbon and stepping in to produce hand sanitizer when there was a nationwide shortage. Gulf Coast originally planned to start food service prior […]

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Justin Turner, founder and owner of the recently closed Houston favorite, Bernie’s Burger Bus, rides again. Turner is now the Director of Culinary Hospitality for Gastropub Productions, a new restaurant group founded by real estate developer McCord. For now, Turner and Gastropub Productions are tasked with opening restaurants and other hospitality concepts for McCord’s 4,200-acre,  […]

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Since opening in 2018, popular Malaysian street food restaurant in Katy Asian Town Center, Phat Eatery, has racked up both acclaim and awards. These include a positive review in 2019 from Houston Chronicle restaurant critic Alison Cook and winning the Lone Star Entree Champion Reserve award for its Beef Rendang at the 2020 Houston Rodeo […]

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