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09/15/11 2:35pm

Heights Shipping Container Food Court

Proposed Developments, Quicklink, Restaurants, Retail

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HEIGHTS SHIPPING CONTAINER FOOD COURT A food-truck-court-like conglomeration of shipping containers housing vendors selling waffles, burgers, barbecue, Mexican, Asian, or Cajun cuisine is being planned for a 25,000-sq.-ft. lot co-owned by the proprietor of C&D Scrap Metal at the corner of North Shepherd and 14th St., the Chronicle‘s David Kaplan reports. “Kitchens on 14th,” as designed by Uptown Sushi and Tiny Boxwood’s architect Issac Preminger, is expected to include trees, water features, and communal eating areas in a park-like setting. [Prime Property]

77008, Houston Heights, Mobile Food Vendors, Proposed Developments, Restaurants, Retail, Shipping-Containers

08/18/11 3:33pm

Just Go With It, #Jackoff: PR Pros Now Appear Firmly in Charge at Down House

Nightlife, Restaurants

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Who knew a little late-night tweet from a customer would spark a chain of events that would turn a new Heights restaurant into the topic of international news stories? Here’s the basic outline of what went down over the weekend at Down House: Customer, after a few beers, sends out tweet about bar staff. Off-duty bar manager doesn’t like tweet, calls up bar and asks to speak to customer. After a brief exchange, customer is asked to leave. Queue . . . the TV news! The Huffington Post! Gizmodo! Time magazine! The Daily Mail!

77008, Houston Heights, Nightlife, PR, Restaurants

David Crockett

07/14/11 6:06pm

Openings and Closings: New Hubcap Grill, Funeral Bars, Downtown Phoenicia Delay

Downtown, Galleria, Nightlife, Openings and Closings, Retail, Shady Acres, Upper Kirby

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The almost here, the already here, and the soon-to-be-departed:

Opening Soon: City inspection issues having been conquered, Hubcap Grill‘s new Heights-ish outpost in Shady Acres is now aiming for an opening “mid/late” next week, tweets burger-slinger Ricky Craig. The converted drive-up at 1133 W. 19th St. is just around the corner from Cedar Creek. Plenty more patio seating in back.
Already Open: So sorry you missed the christenings, but the nightclub, restaurant-bar, and wading pool carved out of the former Settegast Kopf funeral home at 3320 Kirby, have been open and holding events for a week or 2 already. That place wearing its paneling on the outside is Hendricks Pub and Eatery. Roak is the nightclub; the atrium pool has its own name: Rush. The bars and their neighbors in the David Crockett subdivision immediately to the west will have plenty of time to become acquainted with each other before their court date next May. Some local residents have filed suit against the bars’ owners, claiming the clubs are in violation of local deed restrictions:

77008, 77010, 77056, 77098, Bars and Clubs, David Crockett, Deed Restrictions, Downtown, Galleria, Grocery Stores, Lawsuits, Neighborhood Disputes, Nightlife, Openings and Closings, Restaurants, Retail, Shady-Acres, Upper Kirby

Nightlife

07/06/11 2:43pm

And Another Wine Bar: Shady Grocery Going Crisp

Proposed Developments, Restaurants, Shady Acres

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The owners of Pub Fiction and Shot Bar in Midtown plan to make over the former Shady Grocery at the corner of Bevis and 23rd St. in Shady Acres into Crisp Wine Bar and Eatery, which will also feature craft beers on tap, an “Italian-influenced” menu (including pizza and deli-style hoagies), a retail wine shop, and a separate entrance for customers who just want to order takeout. Also: a patio next to the kitchen’s new herb-and-vegetable garden that’ll be carved out of the asphalt. Guy-in-charge Al Scavelli tells Swamplot many of the details are still being worked out, but he hopes to open the place at 2220 Bevis up by next January.
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77008, Bars and Clubs, Proposed Developments, Restaurants, Shady-Acres

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07/05/11 6:03pm

Comment of the Day: The Restaurant Rush in Shady Acres

Openings and Closings, Quicklink, Restaurants, Retail, Shady Acres

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COMMENT OF THE DAY: THE RESTAURANT RUSH IN SHADY ACRES “Given the success of hugely popular Cedar Creek just down the streetâ€¦and the new Hubcap Grille opening about a block away on 19thâ€¦and Gatlinâ€™s BBQâ€¦and the new spot opening soon on 23rdâ€¦Iâ€™d say this part of town has a hungry (and thirsty!) population who will ensure that this new Corkscrew location does well. Welcome to the neighborhood â€“ very happy to have you here!” [LaLa, commenting on The Corkscrew Pops Open in Shady Acres]

77008, Bars, Comments, Openings and Closings, Restaurants, Shady-Acres

Nightlife

07/05/11 11:40am

The Corkscrew Pops Open in Shady Acres

Openings and Closings, Renovations, Shady Acres

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Reopened in a new location over the weekend, after a year or so of mellowing: wine bar and former Washington Ave nightlife pioneer The Corkscrew. That mysterious Heights location turns out to be in Shady Acres, in the former strip-center Washateria at 1308 W. 20th St., where there’s now this patio out front.

Welcome [The Corkscrew]
Previously on Swamplot: The Rush to White Oak: Is the Corkscrew Next?, Here Come Bee Love and Special Sauce: The Corkscrew Twists Itself Into Something Hard and Fruity

Photo: Candace Garcia

77008, Bars, Nightlife, Openings and Closings, Renovations, Shady-Acres

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06/28/11 11:47pm

Comment of the Day: Street Parking in the Heights

Houston Heights, Parking, Quicklink, Streetscapes

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COMMENT OF THE DAY: STREET PARKING IN THE HEIGHTS “West of Studewood in the Heights has a lot of unpermitted off street parking facilities on public right of ways or parking pads on streets without curbs. These are ditches that are covered up with cars parked on them. Heights residents will tell you that you cannot park in front of their houses on their pads. That leaves the houses without parking pads open to all the parking. I forsee lots of problems with residents telling people they cannot park in front of their houses when these new places come in. And yes, I see my neighbors telling people to move their cars every day. The Parking Wars are coming.” [Studes2nd, commenting on More Heights Second Locations: Sonoma Wine Bar Aims for Studewood]

77007, 77008, Comments, Houston Heights, Parking, Streetscapes

06/14/11 3:34pm

The Rugglefication of the Heights’ 11th Street Cafe

Openings and Closings, Restaurants

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Storied Heights hangout 11th Street Cafe, at the corner of 11th St. and Studewood, is now closed, a tipster reports. It’s scheduled to reopen Saturday with a new menu and a slightly different name: Ruggles’ 11th Street Cafe. The Heights location will be the third in Bruce Molzan’s growing Ruggles Green empire — the counter-service restaurant’s second location opened in CityCentre last year.

Photo: Candace Garcia

77008, Houston Heights, Openings and Closings, Restaurants

Openings and Closings

06/09/11 12:10pm

Openings and Closings: Reverse Kaboom, the Coming Gap Gap

Retail, Rice Village, Woodland Heights

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Your latest retail edition:

Closing and Expanding: New Orleans import Kaboom Books has shut down its Studewood location in the Heights strip center next to Antidote Coffee. Open now: more space for books and readers in the 3116 Houston Ave. storefront at the end of Bayland in Woodland Heights. The expanded store incorporates the north end of the streetfront building, and includes a back yard and reading area.
Moving: The storefront division of PH Design Shop, from its Shepherd Dr. hangout next to Sugarbaby’s Cupcake Boutique, to a larger 1,440-sq.-ft. space at 2414 Rice Blvd. in the head-in-parking paradise of Rice Village, later this month. The new store will allow the addition of gifts and tabletop items to the store’s mix of custom mix of funky paper goods and custom design services.

One more:

77005, 77008, 77009, 77098, Openings and Closings, Retail, Rice-Village, Woodland Heights

Condos

06/03/11 9:54am

A Rooftop Party Deck Behind the 11th St. Someburger? Those Lofty Earlier Designs for 1111 Studewood Place

Houston Heights, Mixed Use, New Construction, Proposed Developments

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Is this what the mysterious new 6-story concrete-frame mixed-use building going up behind the 11th St. Someburger in the Heights is supposed to look like? Sort of, but not exactly. The rendering of the project above (and a whole bunch more, below), found on the website of ZDA Architecture in San Antonio, shows a decked-out version of the more boxy structure that’s pictured on this new sign and that showed up on the corner of Studewood and 11th 1/2 St. yesterday:

77008, Condos, Houston Heights, Mixed Use, New Construction, Proposed Developments

05/02/11 3:17pm

Harold’s in the Heights Is Closing Down