The new eatery in the seven-story building developed by D.C. Sadek has nabbed a rising star chef who is classically trained and worked at French Laundry and Vespertine in Los Angeles. Adel Sadek and his partners are moving toward realizing their uber sophisticated restaurant to be called Ciel, located here at street level. There is also restaurant news for the new-build at 4411 San Felipe which features three floors of office space and ground floor retail. Major 4411 San Felipe Restaurant Happenings Tropez will be repeated when Ciel opens on San Felipe. If the website imagery is accurate, it will be an entirely different look from Emmaline. Zanti owner Santiago Peláez is hoping to recreate in a prime River Oaks Shopping Center locale his success with the Zanti restaurant in The Woodlands, which opened in 2019.Īlso in the neighborhood, the old Emmaline at 3210 West Dallas - noted for its majestic oak trees and romantic ambience - is now in the hands of Dan Wierck’s Sundown Entertainment which has plans to open under the name Muse. Owners of the soon-to-open Italian restaurant Zanti Cucina Italiana, located just east toward downtown from Brasserie 19, are creating their own patio in what was previously coveted parking spaces for the Brassiere 19 valet. Brassiere 19 owner Charles Clark has dug in his heels and ain’t giving up his decade’s long proprietary and contract ownership of the patio. But they aren’t playing nice. The group wanted half of B-19’s crazy popular patio. According to the website, bar and food service should begin later this summer. There are several versions of this unconfirmed situation.Īcross the street and literally next door to Brasserie 19, Dallas-based enterprise Hudson House is opening the doors to its fifth outpost. We are told that Kimco Realty Corp., which bought the posh shopping center from Weingarten Realty Investors, may have either refused to renew the La Griglia lease or was contractually prohibited from a renewal perhaps due to a longstanding feud between Landry’s and Weingarten.

Only a few blocks West, River Oaks Shopping Center is hopping with restaurant news not the least of which is that the much beloved La Griglia, part of the Landry’s empire, is losing its lease at the end of the year. Gatsby’s is expected to open in just a few weeks. Gatsby’s Steakhouse is expanding its local footprint with nightlife entrepreneur Luis Rangel poised to open Gatsby’s Seafood in that former Tony Mandola’s restaurant space on Waugh Drive. And sure enough a new restaurant is about to open and that’s just one of the juicy bits of voluminous Houston food world intelligence circulating in certain quarters. Those who travel the Waugh Drive corridor through Montrose on any regular basis have certainly noted that the Pept0-Bismol pink facade of the former Tony Mandola’s Seafood Kitchen has become a pristine white.

The muse bar and restaurant