Results tagged “cafeannie”

Into art? How about dance? You like music? Theater? Have a thing for opera? Or maybe you just (pretend to) like “culture” in general to seem smart and hip and urban? Want to impress a date while not knowing a damn thing about the previously mentioned subjects? Boy, does Houstonist have a shindig for you. Tonight brings us Culture Collision II, hosted by a fleet of Museum and Theatre District young professionals' groups, including the...

Feel like it's time to give back? Someone did someone nice for you and you haven't paid it forward? You screwed someone over and now you've gotta get your good karma back? We've got the answer - treat yourself to a gourmet 3-course dinner! It's not often that eating out can be considered charity work. This week in Houston, your dining escapades can actually do some good for the world. Houston's annual Restaurant Week...

This Thursday, Houston restaurants will team up to fight HIV/AIDS by donating one third of all their food sales for the day to AIDS Foundation Houston. Participating restaurants include Barnaby's (try the meatloaf!) Tila's on the Curve (Chicken Mole), Thai Spice, and for those of you who really really want to contribute in a serious way, Cafe Annie. ("C'mon, honey! Let's go eat a fabulously romantic two hundred dollar dinner...it's for a good cause!"). New...

Even though the traffic will be so thick we're sure we'll never get to go there, Houstonist was excited to learn this morning that a super-sized Whole Foods Market flagship store is coming to Uptown. Whole Foods announced it will build an 80,000-square-foot store in the unfortunately named BLVD Place (which, the Chronicle tells us, is pronounced "Boulevard Place" — so, uh, why not just name it that?), a 21-acre mixed-use development at the corner...

So now we know what kinds of stuff will be in the new downtown park: and it's, uh, park stuff. The $81 million, 12-acre park in front of the George R. Brown Convention Center will feature a large pond, a putting green, a great lawn, an ampitheater, interactive fountains and two restaurants run by Schiller Del Grande (of Cafe Annie and Cafe Express fame). Check out a diagram of the park's design from the Chronicle.