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Rice Village's transformation of its dining options takes another step forward this month. Sixty Vines, the Plano-based pizzeria and wine bar, announced it will open to the public on Monday, October 14.

The 8,700-square-foot, two-story restaurant will occupy a new space next to The Gap at 2540 University Blvd. Design details include "raw woods" and "live greenery" along with a patio that's been designed to resemble a wine garden.

Open for lunch, brunch, and dinner, the restaurant features an eclectic mix of shareable plates, entrees, and wood-fired pizzas. Favorites, according to the restaurant, include wood-fired cauliflower, meat and cheese boards, the Asian chicken chop salad, and the fig and proscuitto pizza. Houston will also be the first Sixty Vines location to include the Sonoma Room, a more intimate space on the restaurant's first floor with a separate menu of shareables, cheese, sandwiches, and desserts.

True to its namesake, wine will flow freely. The restaurant will offer 51 wines on tap as part of 100 available by-the-glass. In addition, seven taps will be dedicated to beer, cider, and cold brew coffee.

“Houston continues to be a city with one of the best dining landscapes in the nation,” said senior vice president of operations Lynn Brown in a statement. “We are excited for Sixty Vines to open in Rice Village and look forward to becoming part of this special community.”

Sixty Vines is only the latest arrival as Rice Village turns over its restaurants. Earlier this year, California-based sandwich restaurant Mendocino Farms and salad concept Sweetgreen both made their debuts. Later this fall, Politan Row, a new food hall from the owners of St. Roch Market in New Orleans, will open with 10 restaurants, a cockail bar, and a coffee shop.

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Texas to lead nation in culinary job growth by 2032, report predicts

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With all the booming restaurant scenes in major cities like Houston, Texas' overall culinary industry will grow faster than the rest of the country within the next six years, Escoffier found.

A new analysis of the states that will have the most culinary industry job growth has revealed that Texas is expected to lead the nation with the fastest growth in the country by 2032.

The nationally recognized Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts' study, published December 30, 2025, compared all 50 states to determine their job prospects for chefs and head cooks, restaurant cooks, and food service managers based on three key metrics: projected growth rates from 2022-2032; "absolute job creation" (the total number of projected new positions) during the same 10-year span, and actual job growth rates from 2022-2024.

Texas' culinary industry is expected to grow by 24.88 percent by 2032, the report found, which is the highest projected growth rate nationwide. That translates to more than 52,000 culinary jobs created within the next six years.

Escoffier also broke down individual projections across all three metrics:

45,150 new restaurant cook jobs, a 39.72 percent increase
3,580 new chef and head cook jobs, a 19.76 percent increase
3,340 new food service manager jobs, a 15.17 percent increase

"The top three states alone — Texas, California, and Florida — will add nearly 130,000 culinary jobs, almost 45 percent of all jobs created in this industry (despite those states making up about 28 percent of the nation’s population)," the report said. "This demonstrates an extraordinary scale of opportunity for job seekers willing to relocate to states with booming restaurant scenes."

Major Texas cities, including Houston, are home to numerous highly esteemed award-winning chefs that are defining local restaurant scenes. And there are just as many up-and-coming chefs rising through the culinary pipeline.

As Escoffier notes, projections are just one factor among many that determine the strength of the national culinary industry. Texas' combined actual culinary job growth from 2022-2024 is down 0.28 percent when compared to expectations.

"This simply means that, over the past few years, the state appears to have underperformed growth projections; the industry still grew in that state, but perhaps not as much as anticipated," the report's author clarifies. "Given the short timeframe (2022-2024), this category plays a small role in our rankings relative to the ten-year projections."

Washington led the U.S. with the most new culinary jobs added from 2022-2024, with 5,800 positions created during that time. Escoffier said Washington handily beat expectations that only 1,300 jobs would be added, representing a 348 percent "overperformance."

The top 10 states with the fastest-growing culinary industry are:

No. 1 – Texas
No. 2 – California
No. 3 – Georgia
No. 4 – Florida
No. 5 – Washington
No. 6 – North Carolina
No. 7 – Utah
No. 8 – Arizona
No. 9 – Nevada
No. 10 – Alabama

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