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RENDERING COURTESY SEVEN HOSPITALITY GROUP
COURTESY MICHAEL ANTHONY
From left: Chris Manriquez, Anthony Heins and Henryk Orlik will open Black Page Brewing Co. in Houston’s Near Northside neighborhood this fall.
with an interactive, create-your-own bowl experience. Menu items are made with hand-cut vegetables, scratch-made sauces and signature spices. In addition to building their own bowls, diners can also order from a list of bowls, poke and ramen options. Desserts and cocktails are also available as well as keto, gluten-free, low-carb, vegan and vegetarian options. www. attopgrill.com 7 Construction started on a new location of Feng Cha Teahouse in early September at 625 W. 19th St., Houston, where store o cials hope to open before Christmas. With locations in 10 states, the store specializes in tea drinks, including boba teas, milk teas and fruit teas. Other menu items include co ee drinks, a selection of blended drinks called Breezes and sponge cake desserts topped with creamy milk foam. Other locations are in Bellaire, Sugar Land, Humble and Spring Branch. www.fengchausa.com 8 O cials with Gatsby Hospitality Group will open a new upscale seafood concept, Gatsby’s Prime Seafood, this fall. The 6,700-square-foot restaurant is located at 1212 Waugh Drive, Houston. Like other Gatsby concepts, the vibe is inspired by 1920s American culture captured in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby.” The menu o ers fresh seafood items, alcoholic beverages and desserts. The new eatery can seat up to 225 guests, including at an outdoor patio and at a bar area. www.gatsbysteakhouse.com 9 The Kirby Group, the hospitality company behind Heights Bier Garten on Shepherd Drive, will open Bayou Heights Bier Garten in October at 3905 Washington Ave., Houston, near the intersection of Washington
Avenue and Yale Street. The venue will feature a separate building for specialty cocktails, beer and wine as well as a patio with covered seating. Menu o erings will include elevated bar food and smoked meats. www.facebook.com/ bayouheightsbiergarten 10 After being announced just over a year ago, the wood-burning steakhouse Andiron is now expected to open in November in a historic building at 3201 Allen Parkway, Ste. E110, Houston, near Waugh Drive. The eatery is run by the Sambrooks, the company behind The Pit Room and 1751 Sea and Bar. The menu will include traditional steakhouse o erings along with more modern small plates. Food will be cooked with live- re techniques. The restaurant is named after the metal supports used to hold wood burning in a replace. 11 A combination entertainment and high-end restaurant concept will open sometime in the fourth quarter of 2022 in the Upper Kirby area at 3300 Kirby Drive, Houston. Few details have been released about the venue, dubbed Se7en , but o cials said menu items will be themed after the Seven Wonders of the World, while dessert and cocktail menus “feature notions of the Seven Deadly Sins.” The 5,141-square-foot nightlife venue will seat 225 diners and another 50-75 people on a 1,110-square-foot outdoor patio. The project is under construction and is being developed by Seven Hospitality Group. www.se7enhouston.com RELOCATIONS 12 Frank’s Americana Revival , a staple of the River Oaks area specializing in
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FEATURED IMPACT COMING SOON O cials with the upcoming Black Page Brewing Co. announced the venue’s planned opening sometime this fall at 210 Glen Park St., Houston, just east of the Heights in Houston’s Near Northside neighborhood near White Oak Music Hall. The brewery is being founded by Anthony Heins and Chris Manriquez, the latter of whom also launched Trash Panda Drinking Club in Northside Village. The brewery will specialize in traditional German-style lagers and more adventurous American ales. It will be located within a historic 1940s-era warehouse that has been restored. regional American dishes, will relocate in early 2023 from its spot on Westheimer Road to the nearby Alexan River Oaks development at 3015 Weslayan St., Houston. Construction on a new 6,895-square-foot space for Frank’s will begin in October. The move will give Frank’s more space, including room for an expanded bar concept, private dining areas, outdoor patio seating and the debut of a new co ee cafe concept that will operate during the morning hours. The current location—3736 Westheimer Road, Houston—will remain open until the new restaurant is up and running. 713-572-8600. www.frankshouston.com
Henryk Orlik, former brewmaster with Abita Brewing Co., was brought on to work on the build-out of the production facility. The brewery has also teamed up with taco truck La Macro to create a taco menu for the site that fuses street tacos with traditional German fare. www.blackpagebrewing.com
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EXPANSIONS 13 A new rooftop lounge debuted Sept. 16 at the Georgia James steakhouse at 3505 W. Dallas St., Houston, featuring re pits and a view of the downtown Houston skyline. The Underbelly Hospitality concept specializes in cast iron seared steaks while also o ering seafood options and a selection of sides. The lounge spans 11,000 square feet with seating for 150 people and an indoor dining area. 832-241-5088. www.georgiajamessteak.com
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