Houston’s Most Anticipated Restaurant Openings, Fall 2025 | Eater Houston

"New Orleans–born chef Dominick Lee, formerly Poitín’s executive chef, is launching a “progressive Creole” restaurant inside the restored, Black-owned Hotel King David in Riverside Terrace, channeling the home he was displaced from after Hurricane Katrina. The kitchen aims to perfect and add new elements to Creole classics like gumbo and jambalaya, informed by Lee’s time in Europe studying Creole’s European, African, and Indigenous roots and his menu’s exploration of creolization — the blending of cultures. Even the name nods to history, referencing the surname of what’s considered the first Creole family and tracing a path from France to Louisiana to Texas." - H. Drew Blackburn