CraveSushi

just started, slowly but surely...we hope.

We've been told that its still moving forward with the Greek Deli as of yesterday. We will see.

Just to keep you guys informed. We received notice today that our Exterior Rendering will begin next week Aug. 31st. We are crossing our fingers. Its been a LONG wait!

Just an update... check out our new website (www.wecravesushi.com) Wednesdays we have tons of ladies for happy hour new happy hour specials (listed below) hope everyone is well! we are growing as a business and making improvements daily. Thanks for the support and we appreciate your word of mouth Introducing Crave Sushi's New Happy Hour Specials!!! 5pm to 7pm Daily, All Night Sunday (5-10pm) Reverse Happy Hour Fri and Sat 12am to 2am (food only) $1 Chicken Yakitori (chicken skewer grilled) $1.50 All Nigiri (excl. mkt items) $3 Edamame (lightly salted soy bean) $4 Gyoza (pork dumplings) $1.50 to $4.50 for ALL Regular Rolls (Half-Off Regular Price) $2 Domestic Beers $3 Import Beers $3 Hot Sake & Flavored Hot Sake (vanilla, melon, pineapple, pomegranate, lychee, banana, apple, raspberry, & peach) $4 You Call Its (Exc. Cordon Bleu) $4 House Wines (glass) $5 Crave Special Drinks, Mojitos, Martinis, Long Islands, Mimosas $15 Mimosa Pitchers The word... "A sushi restaurant lives or dies on the freshness of its fish, and Crave passes the test, with dishes that are pristine as they are beautiful." ~ Texas Monthly Magazine "Crave Sushi is the "Hidden Gem" of superior sushi in Houston. So don't go around telling everybody! Sssshhhh! It's our secret." ~ Out Smart Magazine "There is only one word to describe the fish here: Luscious!" ~ Envy Magazine "Crave Sushi has a sleek, sexy look with teal walls, dark stained woods, and two bars: one for fish and a larger for a drink!" ~ 002 Houston Magazine "The hottest new restaurant in our area!" ~ Midtown Paper "Crave Sushi, the newest addition to the midtown restaurant scene at 2900 Travis. C.I.A.- trained Chef Robert Garay is top toque! ~ Papercity "Midtown's newest place to get a raw deal is open late till 4am on weekends, quite cleverly mixing things up!" ~ Houston Modern Luxury Magazine

The word is that a Greek Deli will be going in next door and a lounge on the other end (nxt to Camden Travis). Also, the plans are at the city for the rendering for the building. This will be great for us I hope!!! Linny ps. does anyone know when Camden Travis will done? my guess...3 more months?!?!

So here is the special Crave Sushi is presenting... copied from my facebook group message. Hey Guys! Summer is upon us and I'm excited! In the last months since I've opened Crave Sushi. I keep hearing "In this economy...", you can pretty much start any sentence with "In this economy.." So that being said... "In this economy, Crave Sushi is bailing you out with $1 Chicken Yakitori!" What is Chicken Yakitori? Chicken Yakitori is a chicken skewer grilled & glazed with a sweet soy garnish with scallions & spicy sesame This special is all day, any day (except late nite). So stop by, check it out, and help us spread the word! Linny Crave Sushi 2900 Travis St. Houston, TX 77006 wecravesushi.com For reservations call 713-527-8744

forgot to add... All of Crave's Special Rolls are under $20 except for the Tiger Lily. we priced the Tiger Lily at $20 because it is a large roll (10 big pieces) and has crunchy soft shell crab, salmon, ebi, and avacado. Our special rolls range from $10 (dynamite & tiger eye) to $20 (tiger lily). Our best sellers are the Perfect Roll ($16) and Crave's Cheetah Roll ($15).

midtownuser, I am sorry to hear that you are disappointed with our happy hour pricing. The 25% off our entire menu was not to restrict you to certain items. Almost if not all other restaurants have a seperate happy hour menu or drink specials. This method is used to push out overstock inventory or offer foods that are at lower price points which is why they only offer certain items to their customers. We wanted our customers to be able to have an import beer or a vodka-soda with premium vodka such as grey goose or belvedere at happy hour prices. Also, to be able to order any appetizers, salads, or soups with our discount. If you strongly feel that this is unfair, I personally would like to sit down with you over a meal and hear your opinions. Please email me with your contact information at lp@wecravesushi.com. My name is Linh and I am the owner of Crave Sushi. I would like to be transparent about my business and your patronage is very imoortant to me. I would like to hear your ideas and what you think will make my restaurant better. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you. Linh Hoang. ps. we are working on new specials that will be introduced shortly.

Thank you for your input. We introduced the 25% off the entire menu because most of the restaurants that you mentioned above offer a restricted menu or a seperate happy hour menu. We did not want to restrict our customers to a specific menu. We are working on something right now that will be very SPECIAL or HAPPY for our customers. Please stay tuned.

Parking issue resolved! Customers are always first! http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render...dMXgL6wUPJPM%3D Thank you for all your support! See ya soon!!

Hello Furious Jam, Thank you for your comments. And I will take these into consideration. Again, we do not cater to one specific crowd. We have to try our best to cater to everyone. It is hard to please everyone. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion, so to each their own. To answer the towing sign question, The lot is only ours for the time being because we're the only tenants in the complex currently. Once or if a new business decides to occupy any of the units in the complex, those signs will not be valid. We don't want to open us up to any lawsuits for illegally towing cars. Those signs will only be valid if we had the whole complex to ourselves or if we could negotiate a deal with the neighboring businesses once they're occupied. The landlord will most likely frown on this as well considering he wants these other units occupied soon. And with signs like that, it might lead to some discouragement to a potential tenant. And having someone regularly monitoring the lot from the inside is just too difficult. Especially considering I cut my hostesses around 10 or 11. This situation is just a real difficult and touchy situation. Thank you again for your suggestions.

Hi Musicman, We have not ignored any customer complaints on site. Every parking issue there has been resolved by me personally. I have personally paid out of my own pocket, not Crave's pocket, for customers parking in the past and recently. And no one is better than the other. I'm sorry if you feel that way, but our intentions are not to make any person better than the other. If you have dined here, you would know that we treat everyone with the upmost respect regardless of anything. The solution we have now has had minimal complaints. And minimizing this situation is all we feel we can do for the time being until something better arises. Without valet around 10pm to 2am on Friday or Saturday, Crave customers will have "zero" parking. Please forward me any suggestions you may have to help with this issue. john@wecravesushi.com Thank you!

Hi infinite jim, We won't have proper signage until the exterior/fascia of the building is renovated to modernize the building. The renovation process is out of our control. It is in the control of our land-lord. Once this is done, which we hope is in the near future, we will have proper signage. Valet has its advantages and disadvantages. We will try our best to make the situation better for everyone. It is just real hard for us inside to know who's coming to Crave and who's not. And we just don't want having 20 tow trucks in our lot trying to tow everyone not coming to Crave either. So valet almost seems to be a must. Btw, Thank you for stopping by our restaurant and the good remarks! I hope we'll see you again!

Hi Musicman, To answer your question, we have to rely on the fact they are coming back to eat at our place after 2am considering we stay open til 4am those nights. At $15 for the Club clientele is a value for them considering our prime parking location. And for the club-goers to park elsewhere, doesn't provide us with much exposure. And it also hints at the club-goers to actually pay even less if they decide to eat at our place right then or the next time they park in our lot. Club-Goers are potential Crave clients as well. I hope this makes sense. Thanks!

Hello Everyone, I see that valet parking seems to be an issue with people on the forum here and others who have visited us as well. And I deeply deeply apologize for this. We currently have valet in place only on Friday nights and Saturdays nights. It is complimentary before 10pm. After 10pm on Fridays and Saturdays, It is $5 for Crave Guests and $15 for the Club Crowd. The reason why we have this in place is to control the club crowd surrounding us. If we had no valet at all controlling who can park for $5 and who parks for $15, the club crowd would take over and therefore their would be no parking for Crave patrons at all until who knows when. And If it were free valet for Crave patrons, Someone could very easily say their going into Crave around that time, walk out the side door and go elsewhere until 3 in the morning which would end up being a wasted space an actual Crave patron could of had. Please understand that parking is a huge problem in midtown around that time. And we are extrememly limited with only 20 spaces. This is the only viable solution we have currently. But we are willing to do things to improve it for our guests. So we are willing take suggestions in to making this situation better. Please forward any suggestions to me at: john@wecravesushi.com Thank you!

Hey! We should have them in by tomorrow!

Hi! I completely apologize for this mishap. I remember when you guys came in. We had ordered high-chairs from our restaurant supplier but still have not received them. The staff was not aware of our situation. So their was some confusion when you guys came. I take full blame that this happened. We haven't had requests for high chairs since we've been open so it never became an immediate concern for us. But I misjudged it. I will be sure to try our best to accomodate you guys and anyone with children next time. Please accept my apologies and come by again. Ask for John and I will take care of you!

Thanks for the great compliments! And I can't believe we're finally open! lol We've been open for 3 weeks now!! And we've been doing pretty good. I just want to thank you guys for all your support and please don't hesitate to swing by, grab some food and drinks and say hi! Here's our hours if you decide to come: Lunch - 11am to 2:30pm (No Lunch Sat/Sun) Dinner - 5pm to 10pm After Hours - Fri/Sat til 4am Happy Hour Daily (25% off Full Bar, Sushi Bar, Full Menu Excluding Entrees) - 5pm to 7pm and All Day Sunday 5pm to 10pm! Again, Thanks for everything!

What's going on guys, So here's what we've been working diligently on.. Any day now!

Hey guys, Sorry If I haven't been on here lately. Been real busy with trying to get the place open. Their have been some delays but nothing drastic. So we have to push back the opening to January 2009. The website was down temporarily because we updated the site and switched to a better and faster server. The website is still in the beta phase. Theirs still many updates to the website that need to be done. As far as the exterior rendering, that was just a teaser and it may or may not happen, it's not our call, we can only hope it will. Either way, we will still open for business in January 09!

Yea it depends on how business is doing really. If we're still slammed at 3am or 4am we may stay open even longer still.

I really really hope so!! haha We're not sure what to do about New Years yet if we are open. We're trying to decide if we should just do business as usual or... maybe do like a private party where theirs an open bar, selected all-you-can-eat sushi bar and maybe do a cover along with it. It's hard to say what will make it a successful New Years. I would invite people on here for pre-sale tickets or whatever...idk What would most midtowners agree with? Any suggestions?? We gotta keep it mind it is a 'restaurant' not a club... so I and the other owners may do like the private party thing we wanted from say 9pm-1am then open for business as usual for after hours til 4am. We don't know. haha what do you think??

Hey Guys, I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! Just a little update, We are about 3-4 weeks out from opening our doors. I know, I know... things keep getting pushed back a little here and there. But don't worry! We are opening eventually! Things are starting to come together.. and they're coming together quickly! BTW, at this time, we NEED experienced Line Cooks and Dishwashers/Bussers. So if you or if you know anyone that is interested... Please submit resumes to john@wecravesushi.com Thanks again guys! See ya soon!! Also, check out our b4-u-eat.com profile page! http://www.b4-u-eat.com/profile.asp?r=5742

Hey sorry guys.. been so long since I've been on here. Been so busy with meetings with purveyors and whatnot. And still so much to do. We are still planning to open by end of November, early December. So no worries 'midtownuser'!! lol We lost our big sign due to Hurricane Ike but we have 2 new signs up now. That leasing sign is up for the other 2 units that are still vacant. Btw, We are currently accepting resumes for all positions here at Crave. (i.e. line cooks, sushi bar, dishwashers, barstaff, waitstaff, hostess, etc.) Please submit them to john@wecravesushi.com for further review. The building process is progressing rapidly now. So don't be afraid to stop by to check out the construction. You might run into one of us! Kind of crazy how things are coming together now. I'll keep everyone posted!!!

we have some things rolling and we have some other things pending as far as construction goes.. its been a very tedious and meticulous process... construction should go fairly smooth once more things start falling in to place..we're still aiming for a late nov/early dec opening... cross your fingers!... january would be worse case scenario.