For a serious metropolitan metropolis with such shut geographic proximity to the Gulf Coast, it’s a marvel Houston doesn’t have extra seafood-centered eating places in its midst. The powers that be at Gatsby’s Hospitality Group (proprietors of the Montrose-based Gatsby’s Prime Steakhouse) are poised to vary that. Proprietor Luis Rangel is opening Gatsby’s Prime Seafood within the former 6,700-square-foot stead of Tony Mandola’s at 1212 Waugh Drive.
Like Rangel’s steakhouse, this new fish and seafood restaurant pays homage to the roaring twenties and the prohibition period that was the backdrop in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Nice Gatsby. (Solely cocktails are flowing legally right here.) Government chef Erick Anaya who mans the vary on the close by steakhouse will oversee the operations at the back of the home right here too. With greater than twenty years of meals and beverage expertise, his menu will embody dishes like branzino filet, New Bedford scallops, sea bass, a tiered seafood tower and even caviar choices.
With seating for 225 diners, hospitality veteran Patrick Smith will oversee the front-of-the-house in a eating room appointed in blue with gold accents, in addition to out of doors patio eating. The bar will shake up pre-prohibition cocktails, whereas the restaurant’s wine checklist, international in scope, will favor California vintages.
“What could seem on the floor to be an idea with out a lot deviation from Gatsby’s Prime Steakhouse is moderately a rigorously envisioned growth of the Gatsby’s model into a completely new culinary class,” Rangel says in a press release. “We plan to ship the extent of professionalism in all facets that company have come to take pleasure in at Prime Steakhouse whereas concurrently upping the ante in regard to the presentation, taste and consistency of all dishes.
“We’ve been elated with the success of Prime Steakhouse up thus far, and Gatsby’s Prime Seafood is our probability to show that this model is right here to remain.”
Gatsby’s Prime Seafood is scheduled to open late this month. Its daytime hours will run from 11 am to 2 pm for lunch and a pair of pm to five pm for “social hour” with a restricted menu Tuesdays by means of Fridays. Dinner service runs from 5 pm to 9 pm Sundays by means of Wednesdays, 5 pm to 10 pm Thursdays and 5 pm to 11 pm Fridays and Saturdays. It’s closed Mondays.
