Common Bond Opens Downtown Brasserie, Original ChopShop Debuts at The Galleria

Frequent Bond Brasserie & Bakery, 800 Capitol, opened September 28 for breakfast and lunch and commenced its dinner service October 5. That is the flagship location for Frequent Bond’s new idea which mixes its common bakery with a extra refined full-service eating restaurant that leans decidedly French with Coq au Vin and Steak Frites however with some Southern twang together with the Texas Membership, Shrimp and Grits and The nashville Sizzling Chciken. Sandwich.

The bakery, with its counter and occasional bar, is adjoining to the brasserie, sharing a 5,000 square-foot house and a expansive outside patio. The colourful and vibrant house was designed by Lisa Pope Westerman and Brinn Miracle of LUCID Collective. Forney Building did the construct out.

Jason Gould, Frequent Bond’s government savory chef, created the menu and visitors can anticipated to be wowed by programs just like the considerable Seafood Towers, Smoked Duck Rillettes and Herb Crusted Seared Tuna. On the candy facet, pastry chef David Berg affords up conventional French treats like Creme Brulee, Apple Galette and Chocolate Gateau (cake, y’all).

The brand new downtown enterprise for Frequent Bond has been much-anticipated and CEO George Joseph says it was definitely worth the wait.” We’re thrilled to open our first and solely full-service idea and start connecting with the residents, vacationers and companies in Downtown Houston. We hope that it turns into a gathering place for the residents and theatregoers and commuters alike.”

Sadly for these of us who wish to enterprise downtown on the weekends, Frequent Bond Brasserie is just open Monday via Friday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Breakfast is served on the bakery facet from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. whereas its signature Bistro lunches are served from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Brasserie facet. Dinner follows with dishes like Seafood Bouillabaisse and Sous Vide Filet Mignon. There may be additionally a contented hour menu with shareable gadgets like Beef Sliders, Nashville Crispy Shrimp and Cheddar and Inexperienced Onion Biscuits.

Unique ChopShop, 5018 San Felipe, will debut its first Houston retailer October 15. It will likely be the eighth location for the model in Texas, which has 16 eating places systemwide. A second Houston store will open in River Oaks later this 12 months. It was based in Previous City Scottsdale, Arizona in 2013.

The restaurant serves its “Simply Really feel Good Meals” like protein bowls, salads, sandwiches, juices, protein shakes and breakfast in a heat, welcoming setting. The meals are chopped in-shop from contemporary vegatables and fruits every day and lots of the choices are customizable. It caters to completely different dietary wants and diets with a wide range of vegan and vegetarian decisions plus gadgets which are freed from gluten, soy, lactose, and dairy.

For its October 15 grand opening, the store will give the primary 50 visitors in line that spend upwards of $15 a $50 Unique ChopShop reward certificates. The store will open at 7 a.m. And visitors who make a purchase order from October 15 although October 17 will obtain a $10 off $20 buy certificates for use on a future order. The corporate will even give ten % of grand opening day web gross sales to Brighter Bites, the native non-profit which strives to create more healthy communities via accessible contemporary and nutritious meals.

Orleans Seafood Kitchen, 6230 FM 1463 will open within the spring of 2022. The brand new spot in Fulshear is the second location of the Cajun seafood model from homeowners Probability Comstock and Marcus Payavla. The primary location opened in Katy in 2008. The enterprise duo met in 1993 whereas working at a Houston restaurant. Fifteen years later, after immersing themselves within the restaurant commerce, their dream of proudly owning a Cajun restaurant got here true. The brand new Fulshear location will proceed that dream.

It is going to supply the identical menu gadgets with buyer favorites like Seafood Gumbo, Etouffee, Po-Boys and Char-Grilled Oysters. It additionally affords boiled crawfish when in season. Comstock and Payavla have created these Cajun dishes from the recipes of their very own households, a few of which have been handed down from Payavla’s great-grandmother.

The brand new location will increase its bar choices with the demographic of the native neighborhood in thoughts with craft beers and a strong number of spirits. The Orleans’ frozen drinks, a favourite of shoppers year-round, however particularly through the summer time, will be on the menu as effectively.

The format of the 5,418 square-foot house is being designed by Houston-based Batsche Design and designer Daybreak Arcieri who’re working with Comstock and Payavla to create a family-friendly restaurant that additionally affords loads of televisions for sports-watching and a cushty spot to hang around with buddies. There’s a 1,385 square-foot patio as effectively.

Previous Chicago Pizza and Tapoom, 24515 Katy Freeway, celebrated its grand reopening October 11. The restaurant, with its motto “The place Pizza and Beer are Finest Pals” closed in March 2020 through the peak of the pandemic. The Previous Chicago model was purchased out of chapter, together with Logan’s Roadhouse, in spring 2020 by SPB Hospitality, which moved its headquarters to Houston from Nashville this previous summer time. Bringing in CEO Jim Mazany, the corporate has huge plans for progress and not too long ago debuted its makeover for Logan’s Roadhouse on the 12950 Northwest Freeway location in Houston.

Mazany was readily available for the grand opening of the 5,000 square-foot restaurant, together with the Katy Space Chamber of Commerce and different officers to welcome native residents again. It was a busy affair as a crowd of individuals waited in line, hoping to be among the many first 100 to win “Free Pizza for a 12 months.”

As its title implies, it serves Chicago-style pizza plus its Madness Pizzas, a signature rectangular pie in variations like The Pepperoni or The Farmers Daughter, topped with contemporary mozzarella, blistered tomatoes, pesto, brick cheese, child arugula and a drizzle of balsamic. Visitors will also be adventurous and go along with the Thai Pie with a candy chili base or attempt a carnivore’s dream, the Meat Me with Italian sausage, Canadian bacon, andouille and pepperoni with somewhat little bit of inexperienced from the loves and basil.

The restaurant additionally affords a few pasta dishes plus the Samuel Adams Battered Fish and Chips. For starters, there are wings, Roasted Cauliflower and Italian Nachos. The Sicilian Pepperoni Rolls and Calzones are favorites and there’s additionally a children menu.

On the beer facet, the restaurant serves brews from coast to coast throughout America and it affords its World Beer Tour for die-hard beer followers. Previous Chicago was on the forefront of the craft brewery motion and commenced its WBT in 1976. Visitors who take part will obtain sure reward factors. There may be additionally a Mini Tour, too.

Prey Acadian Delicacies and Social Eating, 1700 Publish Oak, will softly open October 15 with a grand opening deliberate for October 29. Headed by government chef and proprietor Justin “Deon” Kent, the Acadian-inspired restaurant will supply extra than simply scrumptious meals; it should even be a novel eating expertise with multi-cultural flavors and a heat ambiance conducive to socializing.

The 30 year-old chef moved to Houston from Baton Rouge together with his household shortly after Hurricane Katrina wrecked a lot of the Gulf Coast. The household began its first enterprise in 2018 which led to a brick and mortar location of Swamp Hen in Richmond. His love of cooking ultimately led Chef Deon, as he’s higher identified, to launch his personal restaurant which affords worldwide flavors with Cajun flavors being a serious affect. Kent mentioned in a press launch, “The elevated diversification of the Houston native economic system makes it a an excellent place for a restaurant like this with its steady market and setting. Opening up Prey presently of 12 months feels nice as I’ve all the time fancied opening a multi-cultural restaurant with a tremendous array of meals.”

That tremendous array of meals contains starters like Stuffed Shrimp with lump crab and Crispy Cajun Rolls made with spinach, crawfish and crab. Facet dishes embody Candy Yams, Corn Brulee and a Macaroni and Cheese made with angel hair pasta, apparently. Dinner entrees like Lamb Chops and Oxtail Surf and Turf pair Cajun flavors with tremendous eating sensibilities whereas the Suya Ceviche goes extra world with an African-spiced filet mignon and lump crab served over a plantain puree. It will also be ordered with rooster breast as an alternative of the filet.

For the grand opening, which begins at 5 p.m., visitors will have the ability to benefit from the full bar, together with joyful hour, dwell music and poetry together with seafood and high quality cuts of meat.

Sekai Evening and Day, 1505 Saint Emanuel, will make its spectacular debut October 29, simply forward of Halloween festivities in Houston. The brand new luxurious nightclub comes from Sekai Hospitality and would be the largest of its type in Houston at 26,000 sq. toes of indoor and outside house, together with a 1,000 square-foot resort pool and two flooring of cabanas.

With innovative and immersive applied sciences, it should present a festival-like ambiance with superior lighting, video and audio parts, guaranteeing a novel and memorable expertise. Sekai Hospitality has partnered with Audiotek, which focuses on designing high-end methods. The Eire-based firm’s earlier shoppers embody Pacha Ibiza, OMNIA Dayclub in Bali and Moist Republic. French producer L-Acoustics additionally performed a task within the nightclub’s sound system.

Set in a former warehouse, Sekai Evening and Day will convey world class DJs into the fully reimagined house which is supposed for dancing and lounging. The Tropical Artwork Deco inspiration is mirrored within the teal, black, white and gold colours. There are additionally plaster, mirrored and ribbed wall surfaces (for her pleasure).

The glamor begins with the outside and its specially-designed illumination after darkish. The ten,000 square-foot important room will stun patrons because the glow of 200 LED strips and shifting gentle heads play upon the mirrored black partitions making a “galactic tapestry of twinkling stars”, in response to a press launch.

There will probably be a stadium lounge for 27 VIP tables, a round dance ground plus a 50-foot- bar wrapped in copper and topped with black marble. Outdoors, in depth decking surrounds the plush oasis-like pool space. The venue affords house for personal occasions with a devoted outside entry for “particular arrivals”. There may be additionally a 30-foot patio bar plus avariety of cabanas that vary in dimension, together with one that’s handicap accessible.

The Atrium Lounge is a non-public open-air house with its personal full bar and might accommodate as much as 100 occasion goers. There may be additionally a full catering kitchen, a hid inexperienced room and valet-staffed bogs.

Aloha Poke Co., 29040 Freeway 290, opened October 6. That is the fifteenth location for the poke model which started as a meals stall in a Chicago prepare station. Whereas seven of its areas are in Illinois, it has expanded to incorporate outposts in Washington D.C., Wisconsin, Minnesota and Florida. The Cypress retailer is the primary location for Texas and the Larger Houston space.

Utilizing Ahi tuna that’s lengthy line caught within the Pacific Ocean and sustainably-farmed Atlantic salmon from Chile, the poke store additionally affords rooster, shrimp and tofu as proteins with loads of vegetarian and vegan choices as effectively. For patrons with particular dietary restrictions, the bowls are customizable and in addition may be made to accommodate keto, paleo, uncooked and different regimes.

The customization begins with a selection of Small, Large or Kahuna-sized bowls with a base of white or brown rice, cauliflower rice or combined greens to begin. Prospects then select a protein and numerous toppings and sauces to create a poke dish to their preferences.

Maize, 14795 Memorial, is capturing to open this fall, as reported by the Houston Chronicle. The new Mexican restaurant pairs chef/owner Fabian Saldana with Mark Cox, his former boss at Mark’s American Cuisine, and Carmelo Mauro, the restaurateur behind the longtime Houston Italian favorite, Carmelo’s. Mauro sold Carmelo’s to restaurateur Benjamin Berg in 2017 who later opened B.B. Italia in its place. Berg decided to close B.B. Italia in February of this year in hopes of finding a different space for the concept. Mauro’s new venture with Cox, who shuttered his Montrose restaurant Mark’s American Cuisine in 2016, is a sort of homecoming as he returns to the space which housed his much venerated Carmelo’s for decades.

Besides working at Mark’s, Saldana is also a former chef at Hugo Ortega’s Xochi. The Maize menu will highlight various regions of Mexico, allowing him to draw upon his own heritage for a personalized showcase of his cuisine.

The 8,000 square-foot space will also have a large patio and five private dining rooms. To pair with the Mexican fare, there will be agave spirits plus a cellar offering 1,000 bottles of wine.

Adriatic Cafe, 27240 Katy Freeway, is slated to open in November, according to a Facebook post from the restaurant. The stand alone restaurant in Katy will be the fourth location for the family-owned business. In the same post, it was reported that the Jersey Village location, 17402 Northwest Freeway, is hoping to reopen in January/February 2022 after suffering a fire that caused extensive damage in August.

Dakar Street Food, 2923 Walnut Bend, opened August 19 and revamped its menu October 10. The restaurant serves Senegalese and Caribbean food like Dakar Oxtails, Jerk Chicken and Dibi Lamb, a Senegalese-style barbecued bone-in lamb dish served with Dakar green chutney. There are also snacks like Fataya, a Senegalese-style empanada with spiced ground beef and daily specials which might include Mafe, a peanut meat stew or Cep Jen, a dish of jollof rice with barracuda in a spicy tomato sauce.

Drinks include Ataya, a Senegalese tea and Cafe Touba, Senegalese coffee. For dessert, there’s beignets and thiakri, a millet pudding.

Blue Wave Seafood, 6211 Barker Cypress, opened softly August 25, with a grand opening September 4. The menu includes a selection of fried seafood platters and seafood boils. With the boiled platters, guests can choose from mild, medium or spicy and different flavors including Blue Wave, garlic butter and Cajun. It also offers oysters on the half shell and a variety of fried rice dishes with seafood.

There is also a Vietnamese menu with grilled escargot, steamed clams, scallops, mussels and grilled, fried or steamed squid. For those who dare, there are fried chicken feet.

The restaurant has a full bar, an outdoor patio and a reasonably-priced, though small, selection of beers.

Chicking Out, 23227 Gosling, opened September 23 in Spring. It offers grilled chicken with a choice of three different marinades. Diners can choose whole, half or two-piece chicken options or opt for the family packs. There is also a kids menu with chicken nuggets as well as desserts like carrot cake loaf and brownies.

Besides chicken, the restaurant has burritos made with beans and cheese plus a cheese-stuffed poblano pepper. Side choices include rice, refried beans, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes and chips with guacamole or queso.

Interestingly, Chicking Out also sells smoked sea salts.

Verdine, 449 W. 19th, is hosting its Oktoberfest October 15 and October 16. The vegan restaurant has won Best Vegan restaurant for the Houston Press Best of Houston for the past two years. The special Oktoberfest menu is made for vegans and non-vegans alike with a Beer Cheese Dip, made with Saint Arnold beer and served with a Bavarian pretzel or the Biergarten Plate which includes a Beyond Meat bratwurst. The Verdine Haus Burger is made with a Beyond Meat patty and mushroom beer cheese sauce while an order of the Munich Fries also gets a heaping of beer cheese and vegan bratwurst. Bet you never though vegan bratwurst would be a thing.

There will also be live music and discount beer pairings.