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  • Openings & Closings: Saint Arnold for Lunch, Goro & Gun for Dinner

    Openings & Closings: Saint Arnold for Lunch, Goro & Gun for Dinner

    Houston Press
    Fri., Mar. 22 2013

    By Katharine Shilcutt

    A happy Friday morning comes with some happy news from around the
    city. First is the announcement that Goro & Gun -- the hotly awaited
    downtown ramen shop on Main Street -- will officially be open for
    business today at 4 p.m. Goro & Gun is only serving dinner for now,
    but lunch looks to be in its future.

    Saint Arnold Brewery also started serving its lunch program this week,
    with today as its third day in operation. "Getting hungry for today's
    @SaintArnold lunch," wrote founder Brock Wagner on Twitter yesterday
    afternoon. "Come eat the noble swine cooked with root beer. Claim you
    only drank root beer too." Chef Ryan Savoie will be serving a new,
    three-course prix-fixe menu every weekday from 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m,
    with menus announced in advance on Saint Arnold's website.

    A reader wrote in earlier this week worried that Cafe Rita -- the much
    loved Armenian-Lebanese mom-and-pop restaurant -- on Dairy Ashford had
    closed. Don't worry, foul fans: Cafe Rita has simply moved. Its new
    address is 2352 Dairy Ashford, which westsiders will know as the old
    Steak It Easy spot.

    Now for the sad news: Houston is losing a legend. Marfreless is
    closing after 40 years of being known as the city's preeminent makeout
    bar and one of its hidden treasures. The bar behind the blue door in
    the River Oaks Shopping Center never had a sign, but its fans always
    found their way.

    "Marfreless' owners have been trying to do whatever they could to keep
    the bar operational but other entities involved weren't budging in
    regards to the rising cost of doing business, making it impossible to
    keep the business at this location," the bar stated on its
    website. "To save this distinguished community establishment,
    Marfreless is currently looking at other locations."

    Meanwhile, Montrose juice bar Roots Juice closed after less than a
    year in business. Whitney Radley reports in CultureMap that "while the
    details following former general manager Becki O'Brien's late-February
    departure are unclear, we're happy to report that the juices are still
    on the menu and back to normal -- except that they're now on the menu
    next door at Roots Bistro."

    In other noteworthy closures, Les Givral Kahve on Market Square served
    its last banh mi last Friday. Owner Qui Ly was tight-lipped as to why
    the shop was closing -- especially in the wake of all the new openings
    around a reinvigorated Market Square -- but told the Houston
    Chronicle's Syd Kearney there "is a slight chance that [Les Givral]
    will come back with [its] BanhMieria concept."

    Lastly, two Houston locations of nationwide chain Seasons 52 Fresh
    Grill are scheduled to open soon. One at 4410 Westheimer, which is the
    location of a silly-sounding development called High Street (this
    isn't England; we don't have High Streets in our towns or cities) and
    one in Memorial at CityCentre. At least Seasons 52 Fresh Grill's
    incredibly silly name matches its silly new spot on Westheimer.

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