Summer time is upon us in Houston, and though within the pre-COVID world, restaurant openings sometimes tapered off throughout these scorching and humid months, this season is simply as busy as any. Whereas some are increasing their footprints with second places, numerous hospitality teams, and restaurateurs are shifting ahead with a few of their most extravagant and long-awaited institutions so far, and the blistering warmth may not be sufficient to maintain diners away. Count on over-the-top and complex shows, steakhouses boasting a few of the rarest cuts of meat, fancy ice cream carts with create-your-own sundaes, new cocktail lounges the place you possibly can sip and keep cool, and much extra sushi. Plan to be spoiled. Right here’s what the Houston eating scene has in retailer for you.
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Location: Montrose, 2531 Kuester Road
Key gamers: Good Evening Hospitality, CEO June Rodil, chef Felipe Riccio, companions Bailey and Pete McCarthy, chef Austin Waiter
Projected opening date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024
The hospitality group behind eating places like March and Rosie Cannonball will lastly substitute the beloved Goodnight Charlie’s what is predicted to be their most extravagant restaurant but. Years within the making, the 160-seat Marigold Membership will lastly open in Montrose, bringing French delicacies with a Londonite disposition. Chef Austin Waiter, previously government chef of Houston’s iconic restaurant Tony’s, is on the reigns, crafting a menu that gives lavish dishes like a Kaluga caviar sandwich with chive creme fraiche on housemade Melba toast, a Crescent Island Duck Wellington, large seafood towers, and bespoke sundae carts.
Location: Autry Park, 811 Buffalo Park Drive, Suite 160
Key gamers: Benjamin Berg, Berg Hospitality Group
Projected opening date: Friday, June 28, 2024
Benjamin Berg will open three eating places within the final week of June, together with what’s slated to be his third and most luxurious steakhouse, Turner’s Lower. The restaurant prides itself on grilling up uncommon cuts of meat and also will supply some cool shows, tasting menus, and tableside service. The latter will embody a uncooked bar cart crammed with seafood, a carving cart for bone-in prime rib, and a martini cart permitting diners to customise their cocktail. The bar is crafted from gold-cut crystal. The eating room boasts plush decor and white leather-based banquettes, and the mezzanine stage will characteristic dwell music each day. These wanting extra privateness can e-book the State Room, which seats 24 folks, or reserve the wine cellar, which encases greater than 2,000 bottles, for 2.
In the identical week, Berg will open the Sylvie, positioned on the bottom flooring of the Downtown Texas Tower. The restaurant is slated to serve French-European delicacies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in a bistro-like setting.
Location: Grogan’s Mill in The Woodlands, 2290 Buckthorne Place, 77380
Key gamers: Marvin He and Kevin Lee
Projected opening date: late June 2024
Following the passing of its beloved chef Alex Au-Yeung, Katy’s iconic Malaysian restaurant will open its promised, bigger second location within the Woodlands. The menu can also be set to increase, with new objects like Chinese language barbecue pork, Beijing duck, and dim sum, plus a lunch menu that includes bian dang — a bento box-style lunch that includes a important dish, like barbecue or stir fry, with rice and sides. Road meals favorites like Phat’s flaky roti canai, satay skewers, kerabu prawns, Malaysian curry rooster, and beef rendang will stay.
Location: River Oaks District, 4444 Westheimer Highway, Suite G130
Key gamers: Atlas Restaurant Group
Projected opening date: June 2024
This Japanese restaurant, which has a flagship in Baltimore, will open its second location in Houston’s River Oaks District. Azumi, which seats 130 indoors and almost 80 on its terrace, will characteristic a sushi bar and room devoted solely to omakase tastings.
Location: Montrose Collective, 910 Westheimer Highway
Key gamers: Ashley Muncie, chef Anthony Anderson
Projected opening date: early July 2024
Channeling the South of France, this new cocktail lounge and terrace bar provides a two-part expertise. Downstairs, bargoers will discover an eclectic 20-seat cocktail bar wearing darkish purple lacquered partitions, mirrored ceilings, and velvet membership chairs, whereas the stylish and ethereal upstairs patio provides views of Montrose. Cocktails shall be a important focus, with drinks just like the King’s Lover, a mixture of vodka, Liquor 43, and Maven chilly brew, and the floral Scent of a Rose, made with rose and grapefruit vodkas, rose syrup, lemon, elderflower, and rosé. Chef de delicacies Anthony Anderson (previously of Uchi) is growing a menu with charcuterie boards; caviar-topped lemon butter fettuccine; a Thon Cru made with marinated yellowfin tuna and saffron potato with Kaluga huso caviar; and the Swan pistachio cake.
Location: River Oaks, 3300 Kirby Drive
Key gamers: JAG Hospitality, cooks Jeff Auld, Jarred Tosto, Jeffrey Taylor
Projected opening date: July 2024
Cooks Jeff Auld and Jarred Tosto have tapped Jeffrey Taylor (previously of New York’s Morimoto and Uchi) to steer this new steakhouse and sushi restaurant. Impressed by Asian tradition and delicacies, the restaurant will serve dishes like Beijing duck, Japanese milk bread, maki, sashimi, cuts of Australian and American wagyu, and dishes fired on the wok.
Location: Silver Road Studios within the Washington Avenue Arts District
Key gamers: Houston Astros participant Lance McCullers Jr.
Projected opening date: August 2024
Maven will add to its stadium and resort places, however this time, with its first-stand-alone brick-and-mortar. By day, the brand new espresso store and lounge is about to serve espresso and pastries, however at evening, Maven will change gears, serving cocktails and an expanded meals menu.
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Októ
Location: Montrose Collective, 888 Westheimer Highway
Key gamers: Sof Hospitality
Projected opening date: August 2024
Sof Hospitality, the restaurant group behind Houston institutions like Hamsa and Badolina Bakery, will add one other restaurant to their roster. Taking up the previous house of the now-shuttered restaurant the Chelsea, Okto, which implies eight in Greek, will serve up Mediterranean delicacies in an upbeat environment with a jazzy bar that boasts spirits unique to the restaurant.
Traveler’s Cart
Location: 1401 Montrose Boulevard
Key gamers: Thy and Matthew Mitchell, house owners of Traveler’s Desk
Projected opening date: September 2024
Those that love the range of the menu at Traveler’s Table will probably be excited to check out its extra informal counter-service sister restaurant. Debuting in late summer season, Traveler’s Cart is about to characteristic avenue dishes from across the globe which can be impressed by the house owners, Thy and Matthew Mitchell’s travels. Count on influences from Thailand, India, Japan, Morocco, Israel, Mexico, Jamaica, and past.
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Milton’s
Location: Rice Village, 5117 Kelvin Drive
Key gamers: restaurateur Benjy Levit, chef Dylan Murray, bartender Máté Hartai
Projected opening date: late summer season
Following the closure of the European-French restaurant Eau Tour, restaurateur Benjy Levit has shifted gears, revamping the upstairs Rice Village house to make means for Milton’s. The American trattoria will prepare dinner up selfmade pastas and wood-fired meats. Diners can preview a few of what’s to return at sister restaurant and wine bar Lees Den, the place beverage director Máté Hartai, previously of Tongue Lower Sparrow, will host a summer season cocktail collection. Lees may also endure a renovation to include a speakeasy and personal eating room space that can join it to Milton’s.
Other openings to note
- Pizza & Pints, Karbach Brewery Co.’s new pizza joint, will hearth up within the subsequent few weeks.
- The revival of Galveston’s iconic Fish Company Taco is set to happen in late July due to the crew behind Pier 6.
- The crew behind Bellaire’s New York Deli & Espresso Store will arrange store within the Holocaust Museum someday this summer season, providing up a non-kosher menu of bagels and cream cheese, salads, desserts, and occasional drinks to museum-goers in its latest institution, the Bagel Store on the Museum.
- Hungry’s will open its third location in Tanglewood on the finish of July.
- Pearland’s Good Vibes Coastal Kitchen will open a brand new rendition of its restaurant — Good Vibes Coastal Cantina in League Metropolis come mid-July, which is able to serve tuna pastor gorditas, grilled octopus tacos, and enchiladas filled with lobster, shrimp, and lump crab.
- Slowpokes will open a sixth location in Briar Forest’s The Rowan growth in August.
- The Kennedy, a 7,000-square-foot cocktail lounge, restaurant, and piano bar, will open within the Montrose/River Oaks space later this summer season.