Scorched restaurant.: Dale Lezon : 29-95 An early morning fire damaged Marco Wiles' Dolce Vita Pizzeria Enoteca. The Chronicle's Dale Lezon reports that there were no injuries and damage was confined to a wine storage area. Continue reading →
Arturo Boada inside his Arturo Boada Cuisine.: Craig H. Hartley photo Bill Sadler, owner of Arturo’s Uptown Italiano, sent word today saying the suit pitting the restaurant and its former chef Arturo Boada has been settled. Boada abruptly left Arturo's Uptown Italian in March of 2011. He returned to the kitchen in May 2011 with Arturo Boada Cuisine. In a news release, Sadler says: “From the beginning I felt that Boada suing us didn’t make sense. The amount we settled for was what I originally would have paid him for his shares plus the real estate, so what was the point? I did learn that lawsuits are an expensive way to settle a dispute, but once the suit was filed our restaurant had no choice ... Continue reading →
Scorched restaurant.: Dale Lezon : 29-95 An early morning fire damaged Marco Wiles' Dolce Vita Pizzeria Enoteca. The Chronicle's Dale Lezon reports that there were no injuries and damage was confined to a wine storage area. Continue reading →
Many of the Pleasure Pier rides are ready to go.: Syd Kearney : 29-95 29-95 visited two construction sites Monday on Galveston Island. At one, approximately 300 workers were swarming the 1,130 foot Pleasure Pier, the latest amusement park conceived by BOI and Landry’s owner Tilman Fertitta. With just under three weeks to go before its anticipated Memorial Day weekend opening, there is plenty of work ahead.Others, like the Iron Shark steel coaster, have yet to be finished.: Syd Kearney : 29-95 Several rides are still under construction, including the Iron Shark Rollercoaster, which will propel riders at speeds of up to 52 miles per hour, and a log flume ride called Pirate’s Plunge. And some major attractions have yet to be started, incluiding the ... Continue reading →
Stella Sola, the Texas-Gulf-Coast-meets-Tuscany restaurant in the Heights, has closed, owner Bryan Caswell said Tuesday. The restaurant served its last meals on Saturday. Owners Caswell and partner Bill Floyd (who also own and operate Reef, Little Bigs and El Real) said that the restaurant’s landlord has been in the process of selling the building, which put a question mark over Stella Sola, Caswell said. But then after chef Adam Dorris left in April, it became clearer to the restaurant owners that they probably couldn’t continue operating. “If Adam wouldn’t have quit and put in his notice, we probably would have gone on. But for me to go out and try to recruit a chef would have been the wrong thing to do – to convince ... Continue reading →
