Foodie News

Another longtime sushi restaurant suddenly closes: Is this food craze on the wane?

By Tyler Rudick

05.17.13 | 4:34 pm

Zushi Japanese Cuisine — a longtime haunt of Houston sushi lovers — has ended its six-year run on Memorial Drive at Westcott. The restaurant's second location on Memorial ...

Foodie News

A once-celebrated sushi restaurant goes out of business, leaving a Midtown void

By Tyler Rudick

05.16.13 | 1:21 pm

The Mix@Midtown has lost a friend. Sushi Raku officially closed its doors last week, ending a three-year run at mixed-use complex on Elgin and leaving behind a surprising number of fans fr ...

Foodie News

A Westheimer restaurant suddenly closes after chronic staffing issues

By Whitney Radley

05.01.13 | 3:08 pm

Nestled at a nondescript strip center in the crook where Elgin Road turns into Westheimer, Jeannine's Bistro has been serving Belgian cuisine since 2009, following the sudden closure of Ca ...

New Restaurant Brings Patio Power

New Midtown restaurant wants to get lucky in its 1940s digs: An inside look at Eleven XI

By Marcy de Luna

05.01.13 | 11:19 am

What's the significance of the name of the new Houston restaurant Eleven XI? Superstition says that a wish made at lucky 11:11, also known as the wishing hour, will come true. Optimistic ab ...

War & Beauty

Guerrilla gardeners descend on Midtown: Can slingshots and seeds transform an ugly area?

By Joel Luks

04.23.13 | 2:32 pm

Take that you empty, nasty lot overrun with messy weeds. A trio of unsuspecting locations were no match for a camouflaged, armed militia of 50 beautification soldiers on a mission to root seeds for ...

Reality Revealed

Brad Womack and AshLee are canoodling all over Houston: Reality TV stars pick up local PDA fans

By Tyler Rudick

04.17.13 | 12:21 pm

It's a pairing that could only be made in Bachelor heaven, Lone Star edition. Season 17 contestant AshLee Frazier and two-time TV bachelor Brad Womack &md ...

Seventh Annual Midtown Art in the Park

04.13.13

The Seventh Annual Midtown Art in the Park is a fine art festival featuring local and regional artists selling their original creations in what will be the future home of Midtown's Super Block

Boozy News

New casual Midtown bar highlights craft beer and edible cocktails: Enjoying the Good Life

By Whitney Radley

03.09.13 | 9:02 am

Jeff and Darren Van Delden, the same brother entrepreneurs that brought you Red Door, Saint Genevieve and the shuttered Sawyer Park (which is now supposedly not closed forever but just "closed ...

On foot

New patio bar aims to create a walkable Houston neighborhood — and food truck haven

By Tyler Rudick

03.06.13 | 12:12 pm

An up-and-coming stretch of Midtown is getting some new patio entertainment this month with the arrival of Capitol Bar — a METRO-friendly outdoor drinking spot owners see as being part o ...

Bad History

Another Washington Avenue bar closes: Are rowdy, obnoxious places going out of style?

By Tyler Rudick

02.21.13 | 8:54 am

After four troubled years, Sawyer Park on Washington Avenue has thrown in the towel. It's been a hell of a run for the sports bar, which was plagued with everything from allegations of raci ...