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papercitymag.com | Laurann Claridge
You may heard Uptown Park’s luxurious Hotel Granduca recently underwent quite an expansive renovation. (You certainly have if you read PaperCity.) After its sale to Houston-based Transwestern, the new owners decided it was high time for a modern refresh as they labored to take the hotel’s gracious public rooms and restaurant area down to its studs and reimagine the fabled Duke’s residence anew.
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1 month ago |
papercitymag.com | Laurann Claridge
Chef Travis McShane, a Houston native and University of Texas graduate, is celebrating the five-year anniversary of his Italian-inspired boite Ostia in Montrose. But he’s not sitting on his laurels. McShane’s decided to refresh his Houston restaurant once again with a fresh coat of light sage-colored paint and some warm woods framing the open kitchen in lieu of the trendy industrial metal accents California designer Jon de la Cruz first installed.
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2 months ago |
papercitymag.com | Laurann Claridge
Call it Georgia James version 3.0. A full six years after its original 2018 opening — and nearly three years after the exit of its founding chef Chris Shepherd — the team of Bari Hospitality Group took over as both the owner and managing company of the River Oaks area steakhouse late last year. So how is the Houston restaurant doing a few months into its new life?
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2 months ago |
tribeza.com | Laurann Claridge |Heidi Okla
Beauty Spa industry insider shares recommendations about high-end treatments and results-driven skin care products By Laurann Claridge February 12, 2025 Darlene Fiske, Austin's spa expert She has a whirlwind, jet-set life many would envy. The tall, pretty Texan owner of the award-winning Austin-based marketing and public relations firm, The Fiske Group, has been an influencer in the high-end spa and hotel resort game long before the term was even coined.
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2 months ago |
papercitymag.com | Laurann Claridge
Lee's is more than just a stylish setting. Benjy Levit has enlisted the preeminent leaders of Houston's cocktail and wine scene to create tinctures that have people buzzing. Pictured, I’m a Little Teapot, Appleteeny, and The Little Duke.
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