State Grille Is Closing - "They made us an offer we just couldn't refuse"
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On May 31, 2008, The State Grille, 2925 Weslayan Street, Houston, will serve its last meal. www.TheStateGrille.com In October 2006 Interfin Cos. purchased the valuable real estate at the northeast corner of Weslayan and W. Alabama from owners Frankie Mandola and Bubba Butera. Mandola and Butera have been leasing their restaurant from Interfin since then. The State Grille was named "Best Business Lunch in Houston" by the Houston Business Journal As a final farewell, The State Grille will be serving a special three-course dinner for $39.95 during the month of May. (I think a price of $20.08 would have been cool.) Mandola and Butera will continue to operate Damian’s Cucina Italiana (www.Damians.com) in downtown Houston, 3011 Smith Street, and The State Grille Catering. Their Web site will be www.thestategrillecatering.com. “They made us an offer we just couldn't refuse,” says Mandola. “We thought about re-opening in another location, but have decided to move on to other ventures.” |
Categories: Houston Restaurant News,Closed Restaurants
What great times we have had at The State Grille. Frankie B. is one of my faves.
My ladies who "Funch" are really going to miss Fried Chicken Wednesdays. I have done numerous parties just around their Fried Chicken. It's the best!!!! I just love seeing my size 2 friends devouring the chicken meat along with those to-die-for-stick-to-your-thighs-mashed potatoes and washing it all down with one of Dottie's famous cosmopolitans.
Yes, life is good, but it will be a sad day when they close.
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Hey Miz B,
Thanks for writing.
When you gonna come my show and tell us how the other half lives?
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Can anyone tell me of an upscale restaurant in the Galleria/Highland Village area, besides Smith & Wollensky where people play in the afternoon?
I understand the 9-5 can't do it, but how about everyone else?
Tony's, LaGriglia, Truluck's The Palm, you name it. Dead at 1:30.
In LA, Chicago, Paris or any large city in the world you have restaurants booming all afternoon way into the evening. You get a group together, have a few martinis, eat a nice lunch, pop a couple of bottles of Veuve, do a little table-hopping, and if one is married or has a significant other they usually join the women and all end up having dinner...it's a party!!!!
In Houston, you get a group together, have a few martinis, eat a nice lunch, pop a couple of bottles of Veuve, then you look around the restaurant to see if everyone is having as much fun as you, and then you notice the only people having fun are the waiters who have started vacuuming around your table. What is that about!!!!
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