Pondicheri Restaurant Review:
Pondicheri in the multi-use West Ave center is chef/owner Anita Jaisinghani’s more casual concept to her Indika restaurant. This sleek eatery, with its concrete floor and bold fabric touches, offers classic Indian home-style and street food inflected with Texas ingredients. Open from “sun to moon” daily, the restaurant gets a trendy and sometimes loud crowd at dinner. While entrées like the...
The Essential 38 Houston Restaurants, July 2014:
It's time to update the Eater 38, your answer and ours to any question that begins, "Can you recommend a restaurant?" This highly elite group covers the entire city, spans myriad cuisines, and collectively satisfies all of your restaurant needs, save for those occasions when you absolutely must spend half a paycheck. Every couple of months, we'll be adding pertinent restaurants that were...
Tracking This Year's Most Anticipated Baked Goods Spots:
1. Common Bond
Location: 1706 Westheimer
Description: This upcoming cafe has already been touted as Houston's forthcoming "world-class" bakery due in large part to chef/owner Roy Shvartzapel of elBulli, Cyrus and Bouchon fame. Joining that esteemed culinary figure are Drew Gimma, Tony Stein, Jillian Bartolome and Alec Bartee, among others who have been working on recipes for months now. When...
Pondicheri to Add a Bakery This Summer:
As if Fluff Bake Bar , Common Bond (coming this April) and FM 903 (coming this fall) weren't exciting enough: Add one more baked goods mecca to the mix. CultureMap's Eric Sandler confirms rumors that Pondicheri chef/owner Anita Jaisinghani will be adding a bakery just above her West Ave. Indian restaurant. She says that she has already signed a lease for the 3,200-square-foot space just...