Acclaimed barbecue joint and talented pastry chef team up for new Garden Oaks sandwich shop
BBQ joint and pastry chef team up for new Garden Oaks sandwich shop Blood Bros. sandwiches will have a new home in Garden Oaks.
Photo by White Beard Photography Garden Oaks has landed another exciting new restaurant. The partners behind Details are light, but here s what Stomping Grounds owner Revive Development provided in a recent email newsletter: Blood Bros. BBQ operators Quy Hoang, Robin and Terry Wong to team up with Pastry Chef Alyssa Dole (Agricole Hospitality, The Kirby Group) on a new concept for Revive Development s Stomping Grounds in Garden Oaks.
An oral history of what Covid-19 has done to the Houston hospitality industry.
By
Timothy Malcolm
3/17/2021 at 9:48am
Published in the Spring 2021 issue of
Houstonia
Covid-19 dominated everything in 2020, from the way we lived (mostly at home) to how we ate (again, mostly at home). In Houston it significantly altered the restaurant industry, with more than 100,000 workers temporarily finding themselves out of work during the year, according to the Greater Houston Restaurant Association. Restaurants closed for weeks, and in some cases permanently, chefs and workers found themselves out of jobs, and a city known for how much its residents go out to eat retreated.
A lot has changed in Theo Lawrenceâs neighborhood in the past 10 years.
âMy kid and I used to throw the ball up and down Columbia (Street),â Lawrence said. âThere was rarely a car. Now thereâs traffic up and down the street continuously.â
This is largely because his street intersects with White Oak Drive â and its numerous new restaurants and businesses, including bars. But Lawrenceâs home â as well as part of White Oak Drive between Heights Boulevard and Oxford Street â is also part of the Houston Heights Historic District South as designated by the City of Houston. And he says he enjoys the safeguards such status provides.