crunchtastic Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Niche suffers from a number of maladies. Class envy is not one of them.Back to Stella Sola, tho. Actually...I heard the new tenant will have NO parking spaces and have a wine+walkability pairing menu in which after each course you walk briskly for 5 blocks, then valet 2 cars and before your next course. If you can't meet the time constraint, you have the option of Metro bus stop quik-clean duty, or a 100% upcharge for your next wine flight. I understand it's pretty much the brass ring for chef-driven sustainability. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heights_yankee Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 If you are like me and really enjoy a good steak and great service, this might be the best food news in the Heights everKillen's coming to the Heights Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCR Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 If you are like me and really enjoy a good steak and great service, this might be the best food news in the Heights everKillen's coming to the HeightsNot anymore. Killen's bailed. Word is that building is going to become a doctors office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heights_yankee Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Not anymore. Killen's bailed. Word is that building is going to become a doctors office.Wow. That sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Not anymore. Killen's bailed. Word is that building is going to become a doctors office.Any source on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Not anymore. Killen's bailed. Word is that building is going to become a doctors office.Still don't know who your source is, but they're apparently wrong.Per Ronnie Killen on an Eater comment:The second floor of the building was always going to be Dr offices. We are still working on the lease. I have already purchased grills, granite, carpet, tile, china, stemware. The city takes a lot longer than I had originally thought. My bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pleak Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Floyd now has a restaurant in Webster. in the old boat shaped buiding in front of Garden Ridge Pottery and the Burlington Coat Factory (old Hydroponic Fiesta). 528 at 45. Still great food. get there before it somooow gets chainified as well.They just opened a new location in Sugarland about 2 months ago. In the parking lot of the mall between JCPenneys and the Methodist Hospital. It's in a building that appears to be cursed as arestaurant location. Ruby Tuesday first built their for their 2nd (or third) failed attempt to break into the area. Then another restaurant opened for about a year, then caught fire. Now this.I know this is a thread about the Heights - sorry for the diversion, but I had no idea who Floyd's Cajun Seafood was until I read this thread. Now I will have to go try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heights_yankee Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Still don't know who your source is, but they're apparently wrong.Per Ronnie Killen on an Eater comment:Excellent. Excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s3mh Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Still don't know who your source is, but they're apparently wrong.Per Ronnie Killen on an Eater comment:It turns out that Killen has ditched the Heights:http://www.theleadernews.com/?p=1832http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/09-10-12-killens-steakhouse-in-the-heights-is-dead-is-the-stella-sola-space-doomed/After this, I cannot imagine who would want to take a shot at that space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverJK Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 After this, I cannot imagine who would want to take a shot at that space.Maybe some of the people already lined up trying to make offers/deals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s3mh Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Maybe some of the people already lined up trying to make offers/deals?Lightening doesn't strike twice. There aren't that many Ronnie Killens out there, much less people looking for a space for a very high end restaurant. The problems Killen had with the landlords are not going to go away with a new tenant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 It seems the city is a factor as well, since they're imposing new parking requirements on restaurants. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 How do we know that it was a problem landlord? Maybe Killen was being unreasonable in his demands. All I see here is that one restaurant owner was unable to come to an agreement on a lease with one landlord. There could be myriad reasons for that, only one of which could be a troublesome landlord. IF the Heights is a premier location for high end restaurants, another will take Killen's place. If it is not, then we'll see something else.Maybe Killen should check with Ainbinder. They would probably work with him and his granite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s3mh Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 It seems the city is a factor as well, since they're imposing new parking requirements on restaurants.Certainly, but that would not have been a mystery to anyone and will still be an issue moving forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s3mh Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 How do we know that it was a problem landlord? Maybe Killen was being unreasonable in his demands. All I see here is that one restaurant owner was unable to come to an agreement on a lease with one landlord. There could be myriad reasons for that, only one of which could be a troublesome landlord. IF the Heights is a premier location for high end restaurants, another will take Killen's place. If it is not, then we'll see something else.Maybe Killen should check with Ainbinder. They would probably work with him and his granite.It is not every day that two big name chefs walk away from a location within four months of each other. Killen is red hot. His venture in Houston would have printed money. He already sunk real money into building out the location.Unless someone files a lawsuit, we will never know for sure. But, I wonder whether the parking dispute was because Killen may have wanted a lunch service like he does in Pearland and the landlord wanted to lease the rest of the property for business hours. Stella Sola was dinner only. High end restrantuers are a fickle bunch. I do not see them rushing in to replace Killens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverJK Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Lightening doesn't strike twice. There aren't that many Ronnie Killens out there, much less people looking for a space for a very high end restaurant. The problems Killen had with the landlords are not going to go away with a new tenant.I've seen lightening strike a million times.... I have heard through a completely unverifiable source that several potential restauranteurs are already in talks... Killen's problems with the landlords probably won't go away your right, but someone else might not have these same problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angostura Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Revival Market owners to open Italian restaurant on White Oak: http://houston.eater.com/archives/2012/09/17/revival-market-owners-ryan-pera-and-morgan-weber-to-open-italian-restaurant-cultivare.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverJK Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 although not sushi or indian food = ] ... i look forward to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pschawe Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Not really Heights area, but Garden Oaks. New place called Cottonwood at 3422 North Shepherd, just north of the strip center with Pinks Pizza. Looks like another of the "creek" family of restaurants design style. Anyone know about this? Looks about to open any day. I heard soft opening this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 (edited) Bar with food from the Liberty Station guy, Charles Bishop. Opened yesterday. Open every day, 4P-2A.Pics here: http://houston.eater.com/archives/2012/10/24/a-look-inside-cottonwood.php Edited October 24, 2012 by kylejack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverJK Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 I've been looking forward to this as an Onion Creek alternative for friday nights... as OC has really started to get on my nerves lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickfence Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 I just finished the Papa Mo's Special at Papa Mo's deli on TC Jester between i-10 and the railroad tracks. It was excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west20th Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 I just finished the Papa Mo's Special at Papa Mo's deli on TC Jester between i-10 and the railroad tracks. It was excellent.Seen that place on the way to work. Have to give it a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s3mh Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 http://www.theleadernews.com/?p=3018Never been to Union Station. My preference is always for something original, but this seems to fit the neighborhood. Way more excited about Coltivare. But, I have to give some credit to the developers for putting in ground floor retail when so many other developments going up in parts of town that just scream for ground floor retail and street life have blown off mixed use. I guess the Bikram Yoga studio is not happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwki Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Don't forget our new McDonalds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I guess the Bikram Yoga studio is not happening.Boy, I'm really upset about that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverJK Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 retail and residential in one nice building.... utopian paradise, yet the ones who always push their distopian agenda still complained about this development. I'm very excited about this opening, I spend a good bit of my time in that immediate area (brazilian arts foundation), having another place to eat within walking distance will be great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwki Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 But, alas, no Bikram Yoga, and I am disappointed with the ommision. Bikram would be a great Houstonian capitalist, I mean, this guy tried to copyright yoga positions and sues the pants off any studio running the thermostat over 72F. And he had to rewrite his first book to remove all references to medical studies he didn't conduct. I think he is the Canadian behind Eme's Place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s3mh Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 retail and residential in one nice building.... utopian paradise, yet the ones who always push their distopian agenda still complained about this development. I'm very excited about this opening, I spend a good bit of my time in that immediate area (brazilian arts foundation), having another place to eat within walking distance will be great!I always gave them credit for at least having ground floor retail. There is absolutely nothing utopian about wanting mixed use developments. They are sprouting up like toad stools after a down poor in the Galleria area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I always gave them credit for at least having ground floor retail. There is absolutely nothing utopian about wanting mixed use developments. They are sprouting up like toad stools after a down poor in the Galleria area. Down poor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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