Posted Dec 20, 2016, 5:19 PM
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Houston's new restaurant row
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The face of downtown Houston — specifically, the eight-block area around Discovery Green — is changing dramatically as more than a dozen new restaurants rush to open before February brings Super Bowl LI.
Call it Houston's new restaurant row: Between Toyota Center and Minute Maid Park, anchored by the George R. Brown Convention Center's new Avenida promenade and the 1,000-room Marriott Marquis Hotel, the new dining and drinking venues will afford Houstonians and convention visitors a wide range of offerings: Among them, barbecue, Southern comfort food, Gulf Coast seafood, French bistro, high-end Italian, trattoria, and haute Mexican.
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French brasserie to open at One Park Place
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When One Park Place opened downtown in spring 2009, the Finger Companies had always planned to have a restaurant concept on the La Branch side of the building facing Discovery Green. But for years developer Marvy Finger resisted offers for the space that passersby would never know existed.
Now he's found a tenant he admires and a grand new restaurant, set to open this fall, will be constructed in a two-level space. Chef Philippe Verpiand and his wife Monica, owners of Etoile Cuisine et Bar in the Galleria area, have signed a deal with Finger to open Brasserie du Parc, a French restaurant with about 5,500 square feet of space within what is perhaps downtown's toniest residential address.
The restaurant will be situated at La Branch and Lamar streets with giant folding glass doors overlooking Discovery Green. The space features about 3,000 square feet on the main level with a 1,000-square-foot mezzanine and an additional 1,500 square feet of terrace space fronting the building. It will be designed to look like an authentic French brasserie with plenty of brass, antique mirrors and tile floors.
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