CraveSushi

looks awesome. great addition to the area and i will be give you guys a lot of business.

do you plan on having a happy hour?

i apologize for the late replies...

the menu will be finalized very very soon and from there we'll decide on what to do about happy hour.. most likely we will have one

Nice. Will Crave be taking up the whole building?

no, only about half the building is ours... the rest is up for lease

so anyways... does anyone know where our banner flew off too?? haha... damn ike!

ok.. got something for you guys... this is just a prelim sketch.. its not final so don't go gettin too crazy with it lol... and btw don't let it leak out just yet haha i know its the net.. word spreads like wildfire.. anyways.. check it out.. lemme know your thoughts

Now what about Crave Cupcakes in Uptown Park Houston?

no relations there either.. so no free cupcakes... too bad huh? haha

cravesushi: there is rumored to be a new sushi restaurant opening up under the new 24 Hour fitness (on the next block). How do you think this will affect your restaurant? to have 2 sushi restaurants in such close proximity.

Well I think it shouldn't effect us in any way at all. Our ambience and our quality of food will definitely speak for itself. But it really boils down to how the public will feel about this.

I haven't seen or heard of this place personally. Just curious... What's it called?

I hope the restaurant isn't built in a suburban style.

Is Crave the same restaurant as the one in Austin?

we're are going to have a very modern look and feel... it'll be very nice inside and out

and no we have no relations to the Crave Thai and Sushi in Austin, The Crave Lounge in Dearborn, MI or even Crave in Akron, Ohio.

Any plans to open on the near East DT/East End? (Land/Rent is cheap and an up-and-coming area)

well not at this time.. it all depends on how this one does first before we can even think of expanding... that will be later on down the line for sure

how come i haven't seen any activity yet?

we're still waiting on some of the city permits and whatnot to go through.. construction will start very shortly.. i'm so anxious lol

AAAIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!! Does this mean I can get a sushi fix at 2am? Because -- in all seriousness -- sometimes I feel like I would be willing to stab someone for some sushi after a long night. I don't know what this says about me and I don't care. Late night sushi is an awesome prospect. Yay!!!

Yes! That means you can get your "roll" on after 2am!! lol But thats just Fridays and Saturdays.. unless theirs that much of a demand for another night say.. Thursday or something.. we will defintely put that into consideration.

Can you imagine staying open til 4am every night of the week??? That would be really crazy haha

CraveSushi: now you have a blog post - http://houstonist.com/2008/08/22/nearly_al...coming_soon.php

Yes we've noticed that earlier today! That's awesome! Thanks for posting that up on here also!

I noticed a new sushi restaurant under construction on Travis (across from Escobar).

here is their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/facuz

and official webpage: http://www.wecravesushi.com/

Hey guys! Well I was browsing around on the net and saw that you guys started a little thread about our restaurant. That's so great! Any word put out about our restaurant is much appreciated! Good words of course!

So okay, just a little update about the new place. We currently are in the construction phase. Our target date to open our doors was initially November 1st but unfortunately it's going to be later now. We're about a month or so behind schedule.

And just a brief description of the restaurant:

We will be located in midtown on the 2900 block of Travis as some already know. We are directly across from Escobar and Whiskey Creek. We've signed on Executive Chef - Robert Garay from Hyde Park New York (CIA). We will be serving Sushi and other fine Japanese cuisine. Their will be lounge seating, sushi bar seating, bar seating, etc. And the highlight of the restaurant is that on Fridays and Saturdays we will stay open til 4am!!

We will have lunch daily from 11am to 2pm. Dinner will be from 5pm to 11pm. On Fridays and Saturdays we're staying open til 4am of course. On Fridays and Saturdays we will serve the full menu til 11pm then from 11pm to 4am we will keep the sushi bar open til close!