Openings & Closings: Pepper Jacks the Old Cabo Space and We Wrap Up May

Because sometimes around EOW, we like to take a little poetic license with things, here is the past week’s restaurant news presented in some merry iambic pentameter:

Though downtown’s lost a Mexican rest’rant,
Fear not because another soon will haunt
The Cabo space with patio sublime:
Pepper Jacks will open there in time

More Mexican is moving in
On already-crowded Navigation;
Next to Ninfa’s soon will be
El Tiempo — its old family

And though it’s been too many a warm week
Without the welcome salve of beers and freaks
Moon Tower‘s finally making concrete plans To reopen with a vengeance for its fans

We’ve bid adieu to Dharma Cafe Sad farewells and come-what-mays
But on its horizon has appeared
A Belgian cafe with excellent beers

And finally after hopes and dreams
Of eating in front of the big screen
Inner Loopers will go gung-ho
In Midtown: Remember the Alamo

On the next page, catch up on what you missed in this month’s openings and closings (sorry, no poems there).

Openings:

Agave’s Grill, 2503 Preston, Pasadena, 832-487-9861
Asam Laksa Malaysian Restaurant, 3702 Cypress Creek Parkway, 281-586-8333
Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill, 25657 I-45, Spring, 281-419-7727
Brooklyn Meatball Company, 930 Main, Suite T240C (in the tunnels), 713-632-8225
Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., Pleasure Pier, Galveston, 409-766-4952
The Cock & Bull Pub and Restaurant, 3659 NASA Parkway, Seabrook, 713-385-8893
Concepcion, 819 West Alabama, 713-520-7744
Guru Burgers & Crepes, 2268 Texas Drive, Sugar Land, 281-313-0026
La Lupita Mexican Cuisine & Bar, 20 Waterway Avenue, Suite 110, The Woodlands, 832-510-2111
Latitudes, 1817 Ave K, San Leon, 281-339-1110
LongHorn Steakhouse, 16746 Southwest Freeway, Sugar Land, 281-240-1018
N Joy Thai Restaurant, 212 Westheimer, 281-974-2235
Sweet Paris Creperie & Cafe, 2420 Rice Boulevard, 713-360-6266
The Waterman, 14302 Stewart Road, Galveston, 409-632-0233

Closings:

Cafe Under the Oaks, 615 East Main, League City
Coal Burger, 20 Waterway Avenue, Suite 150, The Woodlands
Dharma Cafe, 1718 Houston Avenue
Dolce Vita (temporarily closed after fire), 500 Westheimer
Guido’s Pizza Pies, 10850 Louetta
Malt-N-Burger, 18003 El Camino Real
The Moghul’s Restaurant Lounge, 11681 Westheimer
Stella Sola, 1001 Studewood
Tu Casita Boricua, 15825 Bellaire
Vineyard on the Square, 16135 City Walk, Sugar Land

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