This week’s Food & Drink edition focuses on What’s For Brunch? The Leader • Saturday, March 17, 2018 • Page 1B
Brunch, the most important meal of the week First taste: Snooze, an A.M Eatery By Ozzie C. Davis For The Leader
Although brunch is often thought to be a weekend activity, thankfully with a place like Snooze in the neighborhood, which is open for brunch daily, your breakfast/lunch options just improved dramatically. Snooze, an A.M. Eatery, henceforth simply known as Snooze, opened their first store in Denver, Colorado in 2006. I know what you are thinking, Denver is already famous for its omelet, but Snooze does much more than just omelets. The Heights location, which is the company’s fourth Houston location, opened for business January 24. Snooze as a company strives to source locally and has noteworthy programs of partnering directly with Central American coffee farmers. Since I was able to research Snooze on a Saturday morning with the other C. Davis’s on a family brunch date, we were able to do it at their most busy hour. Be forewarned, that it is highly likely that you will wait in line, especially on the weekend. From my two hours of dining research, the line starts
stacking up at 8:45 a.m. on Saturdays give or take fifteen minutes, so plan accordingly. I even polled a few patrons and the average wait time for the weekend varies from 20 to 40 minutes; some have reported longer wait times extending beyond an hour. Outside the front door there are games while you wait such as cornhole and nice aesthetics and seating so you will be as comfortable as possible. Without further ado, allow me to take your mind on a delicious journey that begins at the coffee bar, winds to the alcohol bar, and staggers to the breakfast table. Snooze has all the coffee options that one would expect from a top notch breakfast joint. What I mean by this is that although I know we can get lattes and cappuccinos from other places, at Snooze, I can see the barista make it from the espresso machine and steam the milk themselves. O.C.D.’s Recommendation - Latte with Cinnamon Although it may be frowned upon by your employer, Snooze offers a full bar open at 6:30 a.m. Not only do they
Browns that truly are some of the best I have ever had. For those among us who aren’t looking for the breakfast scene yet still want to check out Snooze, there are many options of sandwiches, salads as well. I still would recommend a side of pancakes or hash browns with your dish since you only live once. The Duo Benny from Snooze with a chile verde and steak and eggs egg benedict.
have local beer options, but also very creative breakfast cocktails that are sure to please all tastes. O.C.D.’s Recommendation - Boss Hog, which is bacon infused Noble Bourbon and House Bloody Mix From what I can tell, there are two types of breakfast people, those that prefer hearty and those that prefer sweet. I am entrenched in the hearty camp and my bride is obvious-
ly sweet. My kids’ taste buds aren’t sophisticated enough to matter yet so they are in breakfast purgatory. If you are craving pancakes or French toast, this is your place. If you are craving Eggs Benedict, this is also your place. O.C.D’s Sweet Camp Recommendation - Pineapple Upside Down Pancakes The Pineapple Upside Down Pancakes are what put Snooze on the map. When you
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go, you must order them as a main course or as a side. Or both. O.C.D.’s Hearty Camp Recommendation - Chile Verde Benny Feel free to do a Benny Duo and try multiple benedict styles. But the Chile Verde is slow cooked pulled pork or barbacoa beef topped with green chili hollandaise, pico and cotija cheese. All breakfast dishes are served with Hash
Downfalls: fluctuating wait times can vary depending on the day. It is best to go early before the early afternoon crowd. Parking is currently a problem for the Heights location, Montrose neighbors also chiming in on this topic. The highly popular spot provides parking, but not enough. Patrons utilize on-street parking within nearing neighborhoods, but not always correctly or respectfully – causing neighbors to get involved and talk with management. If you plan to go, consider carpooling or even a ride share program.
Sweet Cup Gelato & Sorbet expands with second location, manufacturing facility By Christina Martinez
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Sweet Cup Gelato & Sorbet is growing. The local business has expanded and opened their second location in Garden Oaks/Oak Forest at 3444 Ella Boulevard this year, and are opening their first manufacturing facility this spring to keep up with product demands and whole sale offerings. Before the business and brand were put into place, owner Jasmine Chida made gelato at home as a passion project. She went on her honeymoon with her husband to Italy and fell in love with the gelato she found in the European country. “I came back to Houston and just couldn’t find that Italian gelato I fell in love with,” Sweet Cup owner Jasmine Chida said. “I started making it at home, for dinner parties with friends and it sparked a business idea.” That business idea fruited value and in 2012, Chida opened her first concept in Montrose at 3939 Montrose Blvd. - showcasing her traditional Italian gelato and sorbet with her personal spin on each recipe. What sets Sweet Cup Gelato apart from the rest is variety and offerings. Since 2012, Chida has crafted over 200 recipes – she joked that she stopped counting after 200 – and each of these recipes are rotated through the seasons. “You can mix and match and we have a wide variety of flavors, dairy free options, gluten free options, and everything is made with locally sourced products – organic when we can – and we don’t add in any artificial additives,” Chida said. “We make all of our waffle cones in-house, too.” Of the 200+ flavors, Chida said she prides herself in adding customer flavor requests and working with the seasons on ingredients that are available. Seasonal flavors are also
is a good challenge. The manufacturing facility will be great – not only will it give us the capacity to store more flavors and make more product, but we can also open it up to our communities and offer classes, field trips and we feel like this would be a great resource for both of our neighborhoods we serve.” With Sweet Cup’s focus on moving into the manufactur-
ing facility, the Montrose and Ella stores will scale down from their current 24 flavor offerings to now offering 18. After the transition, both locations will be ready to offer their 24 rotating flavors again. Moving into the Garden Oaks/Oak Forest neighborhood has been rewarding for Chida. “I love Montrose for its innovation and creativity – it’s like a food meca there,” she said. “What I love about Garden Oaks and Oak Forest is that it has that great sense of community. I love the fact that they are a tight nit community, they love and support the community and appreciate small businesses. Having that sense of pride in local business is really warming – and very rare – and Garden Oaks and Oak Forest are all about that.” While interviewing Chida,
artist Rosa Garcia was working on a mural that pays homage to the Garden Oaks/Oak Forest neighborhood. You can find tributes to Patrick Swayze, local restaurants like Doyle’s, Gatlin’s and even MytiBurger. Chida chatted with each neighborhood’s homeowner association to get feedback on her mural and said, “we couldn’t fit everyone, but it’s our way to appreciate this community.” Sweet Cup Gelato is located here in the neighborhood at 3444 Ella Blvd. and sister location at 3939 Montrose Blvd. Find them on Facebook at Sweet Cup Gelato & Sorbet or online at www.sweetcupgelato.com. This was a paid-for article as a part of The Leader’s advertorial program. Schedule your advertorial today 713-686-8494.
Photos by Christina Martinez Above, Sweet Cup Gelato & Sorbet’s Guava Creamsicle. To the right, the H-Town Blue Moon in a homemade waffle cone, pictured in front of the new Garden Oaks/Oak Forest tribute mural.
a fun project of Chida’s – her most recent flavor partnered with BB’s Café and using their King Cake recipe for the King
Sweet Cup Gelato & Sorbet has a Montrose location at 3939 Montrose Blvd. and their newest location in Garden Oaks/ Oak Forest at 3444 Ella Blvd. Find them online at www.sweetcupgelato.com
Cake Gelato offered for a limited time. She’s even got a rodeo flavor coming soon that showcases barbecue flavors
from a local BBQ restaurant. Sweet Cup also has a few signature flavors like the Vanilla Bean Tres Leches, Texan Kulfi and the H-Town Blue Moon. You can find some of these flavors in Central Market and Whole Foods, and at the Montrose and Ella Boulevard location when in stock. Currently, all gelato and sorbet are made out of a small kitchen in their Montrose shop. Keeping up with demands, Chida is currently building out a manufacturing facility at the old Ruthie’s Bar in Montrose to serve both of her locations and whole sale offerings. “We started our whole sale line in 2015 in Whole Foods Market; 2016 in Central Market,” she said. “After that, we started expanding and outgrowing our kitchen space in Montrose and for the past year have been working on our manufacturing facility. The fact that we are growing
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ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR Samples at We Olive 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday, March 17 We Olive & Wine Bar – 249 W. 19th St. Suite B
Art Valet: FotoFest International on display in the Heights Mitch Cohen Art Columnist
If you’re looking to skip the green beer this St. Patty’s day come out to We Olive & Wine Bar for delicious samples. They’re offering up a taste of fresh extra virgin olive oil from their newest harvest. The samples of the new harvest will be served all day over fresh, creamy mozzarella with sea salt. The simple favors of the EVOO, mozzarella and flaky sea salt are sure to be delightful.
A day of mindfulness 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday, March 17 Studio NiaMoves – 508 Pecore St. End the week by deepening your mindfulness and practice a sense of presence from moment to moment in this silent retreat format. This is perfect for both experienced meditators and intrigued beginners. You’ll need to wear comfortable clothes that will allow for easy movements and bring your lunch and drinks you will need for the day. A brief outline for the day: sitting meditation, mindful movement with body scan, mindful eating practice, mountain meditation, walking meditation, and loving-kindness meditation.
St. Patty’s all-day party 11 a.m. – 2 a.m. Saturday, March 17 King’s BierHaus – 2044 T.C. Jester Join the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day at King’s BierHaus’ all day party. Of course, there will be the famous green beer available, Irish whiskey specials, and Irish beer. The place will be fully decorated and themed to raise the Irish spirit, so don’t forget to wear green! From 5 p.m. – 10 p.m. there will be live Irish music; including, a bagpiper and Irish fiddler.
It hardly seems like it, but two years have gone by since I first wrote about a random walk that led me to a story about FotoFest International. This year the biennial event runs March 10 - April 22 and is absolutely vast in scope, education and exhibition space. The focus of the FotoFest 2018 Biennial is India, a nation of more than 1.3 billion people and the world’s largest democracy. The exhibition features 47 leading or emerging photographic and new media artists of Indian origin, working both in India and globally. Every part of Houston is covered as well with literally hundreds of photographers. In the Heights, there are seven venues that include the Art Car Museum, Bill’s Junk, Gspot Contemporary Art Space, The Heights Theater, The Vineyard Church of Houston, THINGZ Gallery and, of course, A 2nd Cup. When I arrived at A 2nd Cup – located at 1111 E. 11th St. - two years ago to mull over my story ideas with my favorite breakfast sandwich and coffee, I unknowingly walked right into an exhibit of photos by local artist Eric Hartley. This year, Hartley juried the show and three photographers were chosen to participate: Rusy Singh, Elizabeth Cook and Nicholas Papas. The show is titled “Brighter Through the Flames�. Hartley sent me a description of the show. “The photography exhibit sheds light on human trafficking and helping to support survivors,� the description reads. “While not everyone can relate directly to the trauma and challenges of surviving human trafficking, most of us can relate on some level to overcoming adversity and trauma while emerging stron-
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Contributed photos At the top, photography by Rusy Singh. Above, photography by Elizabeth Cook. Both artists are participants in FotoFest International at A 2nd Cup.
ger on the other side. This exhibit is the photographer’s interpretation of how we are Brighter Through the Flames. A portion of all art sales at A 2nd Cup will benefit their new Culinary Aftercare Program for Human Trafficking Survivors. A 2nd Cup’s mission is fighting human trafficking and if you hadn’t guessed, it is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit coffee shop. Very cool. You can view the photography daily 7 a.m. - 10 p.m and Sundays till 5 p.m. A dual public reception with the artists will be held 6 - 8 p.m. on March 24, and across the street at The Houston Vineyard – located at 1035 East 11th St. - their show is titled A Closer Look. Find them on Facebook and www.a2ndcup. com. As an international platform for serious photographic arts exhibitions, the FotoFest Biennial has become known
as a showcase for the discovery and presentation of important new work and new talent from around the world. The Biennial takes place citywide in Houston with participation from the leading art museums, art galleries, non-profit art spaces, universities and civic spaces. The Biennial has an audience of 275,000 people from 34 countries. This audience includes a select group of 150 museum curators, gallerists, publishers, editors, photography collectors, directors of non-profit art spaces and international festivals from Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada and the United States. Find more information online at www. fotofest2018.art. Cohen is an artist and founder of First Saturday Arts Market and the new Market at Sawyer Yards, find him at ArtValet. com.
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Craft Chronicles How to formulate your very own recipe Landon Weiershausen Columnist
Spring has sprung, the clock has stolen another hour from us and it’s time for another Craft Chronicles. The weather has turned for the better (this week) and homebrewers are out in full force catching up on their delayed brew days to get ready for the summertime. This is also the time of year that many breweries are developing new recipes to entice their customers as the patio days approach. How do they come up with so many awesome beers, you might ask? Well, it all starts with a concept. Like many things, sometimes you see what other people are doing and decide you can do it better. Sometimes you just have a feeling and run with it or you might eat or drink something that brings on an instant memory from times past. No matter how inspiration strikes, you have to start with the basics and build carefully from there. Of course it is easy enough to just throw a whole bunch of random things together and hope for the best, but when money and reputation are on the line how do brewers approach the problem? A small test batch
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can be made from anything such as fruit, spices and oak aging all to zone in on the brewer’s intentions. See, brewing is just like cooking. Just because two things sound great together doesn’t always mean that they are meant to be in the same dish. The best advice I ever got was to focus on a flavor and follow it through. Too many different things end up tasting muddy and that is why test batches are so important, they weed out the muddy and weird combinations. I wish I had more space to write about recipe formulation but alas my time is up. Stop by the shop with some beer and we can hash out the fine details. Until next month. Make sure to join us in our craft adventures each month. Landon is the owner of Farmboy Brew Shop. Email landon@ farmboybrewshop.com. Cheers!
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New tenants announced, confirmed for Heights Waterworks project By Kim Hogstrom For The Leader
The list of interesting, new tenants leasing space in the Houston Heights Waterworks continues to grow. Located at the corner of 19th Street and Nicholson Street in the Heights, two highly prosperous businesses recently joined the prestigious lineup already underway. Jinya Ramen Bar and Floyd’s 99 Barbershop have officially signed leases in the new center. Jinya Ramen Bar will soon occupy 2,500 square feet, making its sixth Jinya location in the greater Houston area. “We are hoping to open in June 2018,” Debbie Choi, marketing coordinator for Jinya Ramen Bar said. “We chose the Heights Waterworks because it’s a trendy neighborhood, [made up of] people seeking delicious, authentic ramen. We want to introduce all that we offer to the com-
munity, with our modern, approachable take on Japanese dining. Our goal is to expand throughout the Houston area.” What explains the success of the Jinya Ramen Bar? “Our broths are simmered for 10 hours, in-house, and our noodles are aged for three days,” explained Choi. “We spend a lot of time and effort to offer real Japanese ramen. Our chefs could be considered artists as they commit to creating the perfect broth. They are extremely particular in preparing every single dish and the public has responded well to that commitment.” Across the parking lot from Jinya Ramen Bar, visitors will find an interesting take on hair care service. Floyd’s 99 Barbershop has more than 100 locations in the US, and has built quite a following since the company’s inception in 2001. Unlike most barbershops, Floyd’s 99 offers service for both men and woman. Walk-
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al Register of Historic Places, an Art Deco pumping station built in 1939, and a second station constructed ten years after the first. Braun is also adding a 5,000-square-foot building to the site. The new Floyd’s 99 Barbershop and Jinya Ramen Bar will join Common Bond, Ripe Cuisine, and Hopdoddy’s at the Heights Waterworks. “We expect most of the tenants to open towards end of this year,” Zach Wolf, Director of Leasing for Braun Enterprises said. “Only Building D, called the reservoir building, is available at this time. The other buildings are fully leased.” More developments to come from this Heights project.
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