Agnes Cafe & Provisions, 2132 Bissonet, will open June 8 for breakfast and lunch with dinner service to come later in the month. The Mediterranean-inspired concept comes from Molly Voorhees, President of Beck s Prime and The Chocolate Bar, and longtime friend, Carolyn Dorros, Executive Vice-President of Wolff Companies. The two friends are both graduates of St. John s School in Houston followed by Stanford Business School for Voorhees and Harvard Business School for Dorros. Now they are opening a casual, elegant cafe together.
Dorros, a passionate home cook says that she loves cooking and traveling and was missing some of the foods she enjoyed in her travels. Her culinary skills have resulted in a menu influenced heavily by the Mediterranean cuisine of countries like Spain, France and Turkey. She and Voorhees felt that the Boulevard Oaks area could use a neighborhood restaurant. Dorros said in a press release. With only a few restaurant options in the area, we wanted a relaxed yet
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Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, he couldn t find his glasses. So he went without them. Then he decided that when it was time to shoot scenes with the celebrity chef for the season-three premiereâto air at 8 p.m. Monday on National Geographicâhe probably should be consistent with what the producers saw. I ended up not wearing glasses the entire episode, Yu says. I had to be the same guy!
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