![]() I went in on opening day and met the friendly couple from Slovakia who run the place, Jan and Andrea Balascak. Andrea is also the café’s executive chef. Before opening Slimák, they were part-owners of Newsbar on University Place in Manhattan. Now they have their own place (in addition to staying on with Newsbar), in a neighborhood Andrea describes as “like a vacation” compared to that one near Union Square. “We want to bring the neighborhood together,” she told me. “We are very personal with the customers, and become a big family and friends. Slimák is the Slovak word for snail, and also the last name of Andrea’s grandfather, who watches over the café from a framed photograph on the wall. She wants customers to feel like they are family, too. I’ll admit: I’m not the most gregarious customer. I often want to be left alone to read and write with coffee at a well-lit table. Arbitrary critic Catherine Martin awarded Bad News -2 for the night's humidity but stuck around the entire time.Ħ) For those who missed the evening, a very small supply of Eater Texas t-shirts remain.They notice my Beavis & Butthead Doc Martens, and help me out when I’m running late for work and in need an extremely quick and delicious sandwich.īut I look forward to saying hello to Jan and Andrea. My Table Magazine's Phaedra Cook worked the room and husband Chuck Cook was, for once, out without his massive camera rig.ĥ)PR professionals Kimberly Park and Dragana Harris caught up with Urban Swank's Shanna Jones and Felice Simmons. Former Eater Houston editor Amber Ambrose traded hugs with both Kludt and Steele. Chronicle writer Sarah Rufca made an appearance after a party for the paper's employees. Press critic Katharine Shilcutt dropped by with boyfriend Joshua Justice before their next stop. Greetings, too, to our new friends in the wild world of LNG.)Ĥ) Houston's food writers turned out in force. A good time was had by all.ġ) Feast chef Richard Knight worked the room, accepting compliments on the news that his new restaurant with Down House chef Benjy Mason will keep him in town.Ģ)Taking a different approach, as suits a man in a suit, former Oxheart sommelier Justin Vann remained staunchly tight-lipped about his next move, despite attempts by Eater editorial director Amanda Kludt, in town from New York City as part of a frenzied week-long sprint across Texas, to lull him into a false sense of security based on their mutual love of Sherry.ģ) Eater co-founder Lockhart Steele, also in from New York, spent a goodly portion of the evening on the bar's patio overlooking Main Street, where he met a group of energy traders who kick their day off at 6am with a refresh of Eater Houston. Attendees exited into the night sporting imited-edition, super swanky Eater Texas t-shirts. In addition to the drinks, next door neighbor Goro & Gun supplied superlative foodstuffs in the form of goat cheese cups, brussels sprouts, fried chicken livers on mini-shrimp waffles and-the hit of the night-a raw hamachi preparation cribbed from chef David Coffman's time at 17 restaurant. Bartenders Justin Burrow, Sebastian Nahapetian and Aaron Lara kept the crowd happy with old fashioneds and dacquiris. ![]() Over 150 Eater readers, friends and fellow travelers gathered last night at new downtown cocktail den Captain Foxheart's Bad News Bar and Spirit Lodge for a Gala Eater Houston Reader Party. Urban Harvest market manager Tyler Horne and Houston Press critic Katharine Shilcuttįormer Oxheart sommelier Justin Vann, photographer to the stars Chuck Cook, Eater Houston editor Eric Sandler They promised to read the site if we gave them shirtsĮater contributor Rachel Ann Brill with editorial director Amanda KludtĮater co-founder Lockhart Steele with former Houston editor Amber Ambrose
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