Sugar Land - Missouri City Edition | March 2023

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Utah-based cookie shop will bring its weekly rotating menu of specialty flavors as well as the signature milk chocolate chip and chilled sugar cookie. Cookies can be purchased individually or in a four-, six- or 12-pack box, according to the website. www.crumblcookies.com 9 Popshelf , a retail concept from Dollar General, is scheduled to open in early spring at 2581 N. Town Center Blvd., Sugar Land, a Popshelf spokesperson said via email. The concept first debuted in Nashville in 2020. The concept offers sea- sonal and home decor, health and beauty products, home cleaning supplies, and party goods, with most items being under $5. Popshelf has 100 standalone locations and 40 in-store locations nationwide, with plans to operate roughly 1,000 total stores by early 2026, the spokesperson said. The Popshelf store will employ about 15 workers, and interested candidates can apply at https://careers.popshelf.com. www.popshelf.com 10 International Italian restaurant chain Olive Garden will open in April at 10327 Hwy. 6, Missouri City, in the ongoing Fort Bend Town Center II devel- opment, an Olive Garden spokesperson said via email. The eatery serves various Italian dishes, salads and soups as well as appetizers and desserts. Olive Garden offers numerous pasta dishes, including fettuccine, ravioli, lasagna, and chicken and eggplant parmigiana, according to the website. www.olivegarden.com 11 McAlister’s Deli is set to open in late 2023 in Fort Bend Town Center II at the intersection of Hwy. 6 and Fort Bend Parkway Tollway Road, a McAlister’s rep- resentative said via email. The fast-casual

restaurant will offer various sandwiches, salads, soups, loaded spuds and its famous sweet tea, according to the website. The restaurant chain has hundreds of locations across the U.S., including 100 in Texas alone. www.mcalistersdeli.com RELOCATIONS 12 Love is N the Hair Salon , a locally owned hair studio, opened Feb. 11 at 18806 Noble Seven Lane, Sugar Land. The business, owned by Meaghan Ledet, specializes in color services, including balayage, highlights, all-over color and vivid colors. However, Ledet said she and her team also offer haircuts, extensions and bridal styles. Before this salon, Ledet operated Love is N the Hair Salon out of a rented suite in Sugar Land Town Square for seven years. 832-567-5296. www.vagaro.com/loveisnthehair ANNIVERSARIES 13 Red Circle Ice Cream celebrated the one-year anniversary of its Sugar Land location Feb. 19. Located at 3595 Hwy. 6, the franchise shop serves handcrafted ice cream with fresh churros and egg waffles. In February, the ice cream shop also debuted its new Churro Stix and Churro Bites, which can be dipped in various sauces, owner and founder Nickey Ngo said in an email. The shop’s new ice cream flavor, boba milk tea, was set to debut March 3, after press time. The Sugar Land location is one of three locations across the Houston area, including in Pearland and the original location in China Town near Bellaire. 281-903-7074. www.redcirclefranchising.com

Fellowship Coffee Co. will serve fresh-roasted coffee at its first brick-and-mortar storefront in Missouri City.

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FEATURED IMPACT COMING SOON Fellowship Coffee Co., a mobile espresso bar , will open its rst brick-and-mortar shop this summer at 3340 FM 1092, Ste. 350, Missouri City, in the Township Square Shopping Plaza. The shop will be run by owner and lead barista Ryan Borinaga and his wife and co-owner, Janice Chiu, who Borinaga said have been longtime coee connoisseurs. While Borinaga worked for a bit at Starbucks, it was not until 2021 when he started roasting his own coee beans from his home that the idea sparked to open a coee business. “That hobby became kind of a rabbit hole into specialty coee, and just the nuances and the science behind bringing out avors within coee,” he said. This launched into the traveling coee cart concept in October 2021, with Borinaga and Chiu oering fresh beverages at events across Houston with their Fellowship Coee Co. cart. “I love the coee scene, and I love when people come together just for a cup of coee, just talking and bonding together,” he said. “We wanted to bring that coee shop experience to your special event, wedding and corporate oce.” Fellowship Coee Co. will oer various

handcrafted coee beverages as well as pastries from local vendors. Just like the mobile espresso bar, the shop will oer fresh-roasted coee sourced from all over the world, Borinaga said. Growing up near Sugar Land, Borinaga said he spent a lot of time visiting Asian businesses in the area. Borinaga, who is Filipino, said he wanted to infuse some Filipino ingredients into the coee at Fellowship Coee Co. The shop will oer a biko coee drink, inspired by the sweet dish from the Philippines made with dark brown sugar and coconut milk over sticky rice. “We’re excited to bring this type of coee culture to the Sugar Land and Missouri City area,” Borinaga said. “You see a lot of this specialty, or what you called third-wave coee companies, more in the city. So it’d be nice to have something in the Sugar Land area.” 832-427-7363. www.fellowshipcoeetx.com

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