1. The Montrose location of Wild will open in late September at 1609 Westheimer Road, Houston, following an announcement first made in June. The venue will be similar to a location that opened in the Heights in February with coffee, cocktail and dispensary elements. The Montrose location will also include a dining experience under Executive Chef German Mosquera. Menu items will take guests to locations around the world and can be infused with hemp-derived CBD or THC. www.wildconcepts.com
2. The Kirby Group, the hospitality company behind Heights Bier Garten on Shepherd Drive, will open the upcoming Bayou Heights Bier Garten in October near the intersection of Washington Avenue and Yale Street. The venue will feature a separate building for speciality cocktails, beer and wine as well as a patio with covered seating. Menu offerings will include elevated bar food and smoked meats. www.facebook.com/bayouheightsbiergarten
3. After being announced just over a year ago, the wood-burning steakhouse Andiron is now expected to open in November in a historic building at 3201 Allen Parkway, Ste. E110, Houston, near Waugh Drive. The eatery is run by the Sambrooks, the company behind The Pit Room and 1751 Sea and Bar. The menu will include traditional steakhouse offerings along with more modern small plates. Food will be cooked with live-fire techniques. The restaurant is named after the metal supports used to hold wood burning in a fireplace.
4. Officials with the upcoming Black Page Brewing Co. announced the venue's planned opening sometime this fall at 210 Glen Park St., Houston, just east of the Heights in Houston's Near Northside neighborhood by White Oak Music Hall. The brewery is being founded by Anthony Heins and Chris Manriquez, the latter of whom also launched Trash Panda Drinking Club in Northside Village. The brewery will specialize in traditional German-style lagers and more adventurous American ales, according to a Sept. 12 press release. It will be located within a historic 1940s-era warehouse that has been restored. Henryk Orlik, former brewmaster with Abita Brewing Co., was brought on to work on the build-out of the production facility. The brewery has also teamed up with La Macro taco truck to create a taco menu for the site that fuses street tacos with traditional German fare. www.blackpagebrewing.com
5. A combination entertainment and high-end restaurant concept will open sometime in the fourth quarter of 2022 in the Upper Kirby area at 3300 Kirby Drive, Houston. Few details have been released about the venue, dubbed Se7en, but officials said menu items will be themed after the Seven Wonders of the World, while dessert and cocktail menus "feature notions of the Seven Deadly Sins." The 5,141-square-foot nightlife venue will seat 225 diners and another 50-75 people on a 1,110-square-foot outdoor patio. The project is under construction and is being developed by Seven Hospitality Group. www.se7enhouston.com
