It took 2 weeks, but someone at last noticed: Montrose wedding-reception capital Bistro Vino has shut down. Scooping a number of popular restaurant-review websites, the Chronicle‘s Nancy Sarnoff reports that owner Mohammad Bayegan sold the house-turned-restaurant at 819 W. Alabama (at Roseland) and a small apartment building next door to an unnamed residential developer.
[La Colombe d’Or owner Steve] Zimmerman, who lived in a house behind Bistro Vino in the late 1970s and 1980s, said the area had been a quiet residential neighborhood until the 1990s, when small businesses opened offices on West Alabama.
In a note on the Bistro Vino website, Bayegan bids
farewell to all our loyal customers especially to our hundreds of brides that gave us the honor to be part of the start of a very important journey of their lives.
After the jump: one of those brides, starting a journey!
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From YouTube, a chance to relive the Bistro Vino experience:
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- Noted Montrose restaurant closes [Houston Chronicle]
- Bistro Vino
- 040501 Wedding Reception at Bistro Vino in Houston Texas [YouTube]
Photos: Bistro Vino
The site is being developed by innerLoopCondos. I received a survey a couple weeks ago about the proposed project that began with these words “innerLoopCondos.com has an opportunity to develop a condominium project in the 800 Block of West Alabama Street…”
Oh yeah, it will be another one of their mid-rise condo buildings.