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    UK in cypress

    Popular Houston neighborhood restaurant serves up sunny new northside location

    Holly Beretto
    May 3, 2019 | 10:35 am
    The Union Kitchen Bellaire exterior
    The Union Kitchen is rolling out its sixth location.
    Photo by Kirsten Gilliam

    Northside diners, rejoice. When it opens in June, The Union Kitchen’s Cypress location should be a new warm-weather hotspot. Gr8 Plate Hospitality, The Union Kitchen’s parent company, announced the opening earlier this week.

    The restaurant is moving into the spot formerly occupied by Jaxon’s Grill at 9955 Barker Cypress Rd. in The Boardwalk at Towne Lake complex. It will be the sixth location for the brand, which already has restaurants in Bellaire and Memorial, as well as on Ella and Washington Avenue.

    “We’re excited about it!” raves Gr8 Plate owner Paul Miller to CultureMap. “It’s a great community.”

    Miller has had his eye on Cypress for nearly a decade. Doug Wilson, Gr8 Plate’s director of operations kept telling Miller there was a deficit of mom-and-pop restaurants in the suburb. Miller knew his company was never going to put in the kind of 15,000-square-foot imprint some larger restaurant chains had opened in the area. But, he kept an open mind and followed the area’s growth, waiting for what seemed like the combination of the right time and place for an expansion.

    “A lot of our Union Kitchen customers live in Cypress, and they visit our locations in Memorial or Bellaire,” he says. “Occasionally, I’d ask them what they wanted to see in their neighborhoods. And overwhelming they told me that they’d love a Union Kitchen there.”

    Those diners — and Miller — are getting their wish. The new restaurant is a comfortable 5,000 square feet with room for 200 seats. Miller says the contracting team has already started demolition on the current space, and construction will begin next week. One of the things he’s most excited for is expanding the already-existing patio space. When that’s complete, it’ll unfold across 2,000 square feet, right on the lake.

    “We’re like, three steps from a boat dock,” Miller says enthusiastically. “We’ll be able to have people call us then pull up with their boats and we’ll run their orders out. It’s going to be great.”

    The patio is set to be one of the restaurant’s focal points. Miller says the bar currently has a big picture window overlooking the deck and lake. He’s considering a garage door or a swing door that would allow the restaurant to open the space between the bar and dining room and the patio for maximum Instagrammable moments. He’s also working with his team to add some tiki-inspired and frozen cocktails to the bar menu, playing off the patio vibe.

    Miller says he’s in this one for the long haul. Gr8 signed a 10-year lease, with options to extend every five years.

    “We’re going to be part of the neighborhood,” he says. “That’s one of my favorite things. I love that we sponsor multiple soccer, baseball, and football teams every year. We give to school auctions. We want to be a part of this community.”

    In addition to giving back, Miller says he’ll continue to provide his brand of quality, affordable fare combined with great service. The Cypress location will have an open kitchen and a mesquite grill, two firsts for The Union Kitchen. Miller says the addition of the grill means the team will be looking at different cuts of meat and fish to prepare on it.

    “We’re going to play with it. I can see mahi, tile fish, snapper – some really cool things,” he says.

    And even as he’s planning for the opening of the Cypress spot, Miller’s moving forward with plans for a seventh Union Kitchen spot – this one in Katy. But he’s got to open to Cypress first.

    “My general contractor says he can have us ready in 30 days,” he says. “But if I can open sooner, we’ll be ready to go.”

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    a fresh start

    Award-winning Houston cocktail bar diverts to new home in Montrose

    Eric Sandler
    Jun 12, 2025 | 5:00 pm
    Diversion cocktail bar Montrose
    Photo by Manoah Rodriguez
    The Vilanova Ritual is prepared tableside in a teapot.

    An award-winning Houston cocktail bar has found a new home. Diversión will reopen Thursday, June 19 in Montrose’s food-focused Harlow District development.

    Located at 1226 W Clay Street, Diversión Montrose will occupy one of the two houses that comprise Emma Jane, the European-inspired teahouse that opened last year. It replaces the original location of Diversión that opened in early 2021 in Spring Branch. Both Diversión’s original location and Degust, its companion tasting menu restaurant, quietly closed last year.

    Known for its polished service and elaborate cocktails, Esquire magazine named Diversión’s original iteration to its list of the Best New Bar in America for 2022. That ethos has been “refreshed” to be “a more intimate and playful setting,” according to press materials.

    Patrons will find a new cocktail menu that includes drinks such as the Operation: ‘White Flame’ (vodka, dry vermouth, Earl Grey, and caviar); the Sand Dollar Beach, an on-trend mini martini; and the Vilanova Ritual, which is prepared for two people in one of Emma Jane’s signature tea pots. Food options include Korean fried chicken, a Japanese-style mushroom salad (sunomono), and caviar service with crème fraiche dip, soy caramel, and crepes.

    While the original Diversión required a special trip to Spring Branch, the new one could be one stop on an evening in the Harlow District. Located on the property that served as the home to treasured Italian restaurants Nino's, Vincent's, and Grappino di Nino, the development now includes upscale Italian restaurant La Griglia, premier sushi spot Katami, and lively patio bar Verde Garden.

    Diversión will be open Tuesday-Sunday from 5 pm-1 am.


    Diversion cocktail bar Montrose
      

    Photo by Manoah Rodriguez

    The Vilanova Ritual is prepared tableside in a teapot.

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