Downtown Houston’s new charity bar is almost ready to make its debut. Angel Share HTX, the new occupant of the former OKRA Charity Saloon (924 Congress
Toro Toro, 1300 Lamar, will open at the Four Seasons Hotel Houston in fall 2021. This will be the sixth location for the concept. The hotel has partnered with Richard Sandoval Hospitality to bring his award-winning global Pan-Latin Steakhouse to Houston. It will open in the hotel’s revamped third floor restaurant space, replacing Quattro, the now-closed Italian restaurant known for its spectacular brunches..
Toro Toro is a combination of the Japanese word for tuna and the Spanish word for bull, representing a menu that will feature seafood and steaks. With vibrant Pan-Latin flavors from Rodizio-style Churrasco and creative shareable small plates, the new restaurant will also take inspiration from the convivial dining culture of Central and South America. The restaurant will feature an open kitchen with a wood-burning grill with meats presented and carved tableside. There will be family-style ceviche,
The leadership at the Illinois State Military Museum is tiptoeing away from its most famous artifact.
Yes, we are talking about the ultimate war booty: Mexican Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s artificial leg.
During the Mexican-American War, a regiment of Illinois soldiers captured the cork appendage and brought it back to the Prairie State. And for 173 years, it’s been on display in Illinois.
Unlike the stovepipe hat obtained by another Springfield museum, there has never been a question of whether a national leader wore it or its path to coming into the state’s hands.
Here’s the story of how it ended up moving 1,700 miles north to the Prairie State:
Mascarel s bakery catered to a French enclave that was, by 1845, well established. Helene Demeestre traces it to 1827 when Louis Bouchet became the first French person to settle permanently in Los Angeles. In 1831, he married into a prominent, Californio (Mexican Californian) family, started a successful wine business, and now Bauchet St. meanders in a loop just north of the 101 and east of the L.A. river. It intersects with Vignes St., named not after Pierre, who brought Mascarel to California, but Pierre s brother Jean-Louis, a vintner also known as Don Luis del Aliso. Jean-Louis named his winery El Aliso after the giant sycamore, revered by the Tongva, that once stood just north of Commercial Street and south of the 101.