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    3 new food halls

    Prepare for 3 new food halls heating up The Heights, Galleria, and Midtown this year

    Eric Sandler
    Feb 22, 2021 | 1:07 pm
    Conservatory Midtown rooftop deck
    Conservatory Midtown will feature a rooftop deck.
    Courtesy of The Oxberry Group

    The hospitality group behind Bravery Chef Hall has an ambitious agenda for 2021. The Company of Nomads will open three new projects in the coming months, partner Shepard Ross tells CultureMap.

    Two previously announced projects — Railway Heights Market, the expansive food hall, market, and bar and Conservatory Galleria, a new food hall in the space once occupied by The Roxy nightclub — are on track for late spring and summer openings, respectively. In addition, the company will open a new version of Conservatory in The Crossing at Midtown (610 Dennis St.).

    In Midtown, Conservatory will occupy a two-story, 17,250-square-foot as well as a 4,000-square-foot patio. Developed by local real estate developer The Oxberry Group, the building will also be home to Dave’s Hot Chicken, a Nashville-style hot chicken restaurant from California, Oxberry Group principal Pejman “PJ” Jamea said in a release.

    Ross provided CultureMap with some additional details. When it opens in late summer or early fall, Conservatory Midtown will house 12 vendors and a new wine bar concept called Puncheon that Ross is developing.

    In addition, it will feature the company’s first on-site brewery. Tenants and brewers will be announced in the coming months. The original, downtown location of Conservatory originally planned to relocated to Chapman and Kirby in EaDo, but those plans fell through due to the pandemic, as CultureMap reported previously; so, too, did plans to open an Asian Hawker Market in the former Greenstreet building in Midtown.

    As for Railway Heights, Ross says he’s feeling good about the project after receiving an enthusiastic response to a recent farmers market at the property. Company of Nomads will begin releasing both food and retail vendors soon, as the COVID-influenced delays caused some tenants such as AL Quick Stop to withdraw.

    “I like that it’s not a designated neighborhood,” Ross says about Railway’s location at the northern end of Washington Avenue . “I like that it’s the connecting nexus between a hundred neighborhoods.”

    Conservatory Galleria will feature 11 vendors, a beer bar, Ross’ Puncheon wine bar, and a version of Bravery’s Secret Garden cocktail bar. It joins a range of food-centric tenants at 5353 West Alabama, including sushi restaurant Hidden Omakase, Korean coffee shop Toms N Toms, and the new location of cult favorite burger-chan. Vendor announcements will be made in the coming weeks.

    Finally, Ross says he and partners Anh Mai and Lian Pham have identified the likely replacement for Cherry Block Craft Butcher & Kitchen at Bravery Chef Hall. It will open as soon as renovations to the kitchen are complete. Cherry Block departed at the end of January to open a market in Katy and a restaurant in Garden Oaks.

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    Chris Shepherd serves up a new menu for Houston performance series

    Eric Sandler
    Jan 22, 2026 | 4:59 pm
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    Chris Shepherd has created a new menu for the Hobby Center.

    Dinner at the Hobby Center in downtown Houston just got a little more delicious. The performing arts venue recruited James Beard Award-winning chef Chris Shepherd to create a new menu for its Live at the Founders Club series.

    “If you’re coming to the theater, you’re already saying yes to joy,” Shepherd said in a statement. “My goal with this menu is to meet people there. I want this menu to feel approachable, craveable, and a little unexpected. High quality ingredients, no nonsense, and things you actually want to eat and drink while enjoying a show.”

    The menu includes shareable items such as caviar with sour cream and onion Pringles, crisp birria taquitos, coffee-roasted beet salad, and the Full Tilt hot dogs that have been a smash hit at Brennan’s renovated bar.

    Chris Shepherd Hobby Center food spread The menu includes caviar, hot dogs, and taquitos.Photo by Julie Soefer

    “As we investigated opportunities to expand food and beverage offerings this season, we immediately thought about celebrated hometown hero Chris Shepherd to help us create a menu that is simple, yet elevated, and, most importantly, delicious and appealing for a wide range of audiences,” Hobby Center CEO Mark Folkes said. “He has created a menu that completely matches the Founders Club vibe. It is sophisticated, yet approachable and relaxed. The dishes tell the story of Houston in ways much like many of our artists on stage.”

    Located on the top floor of the Hobby Center, the Live at the Founders Club series offers live concerts in a relaxed, supper club-style environment. It features performances in genres such as cabaret, jazz, and Broadway.

    Attendees can purchase whole tables of four. Parties of one, two, or three are also welcome to attend. They’ll be grouped together with other parties to fill up each table. Doors open at 6 pm for a 7:30 pm show, allowing attendees time to converse before the performance begins.

    For more information and tickets, visit the Hobby Center website.

    Live at the Founders Club

    • Modern Folk - Multicultural Roots starring American Patchwork Quartet | Jan 30 & 31
    • Love Always: Celebrating the Romance of Nat King Cole starring Jumaane Smith | Feb 12 & 13
    • Sincerely, Sondheim starring Nicholas Rodriguez | Mar 26 & 27
    • Wild Woman starring Kate Kortum | Apr 9 & 10
    • & Broadway starring Teal Wicks with Music Direction & Piano Steven Jamail | May 7 & 8
    • Havana Grooves starring The Alfredo Rodríguez Trio | Jun 11 & 12
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