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Feast owners Co-Chef James Silk, top left, Megan Silk, top right, and Co-Chef Richard Knight.: Nick de la Torre : 29-95
Just when we were thinking Lower Westheimer could not get hotter, Feast, Houston’s first nose-to-tail kitchen, announced via Twitter Friday that it would be closing up shop in nine months. The Twitter account also made mention that the restaurant’s lease was up.
(Attempts to contact Feast manangement for comment have not been successful.)
When it opened in 2008, critic Alison Cook called it “easily the most exciting place in town" and she recently ranked it fifth in her Houston’s Top 100 restaurants project.
Owners Richard Knight, James Silk and Meghan Silk opened the restaurant in the Montrose house once occupied by Chez Georges in March 2008. In 2009, Feast was nominated as a semifinalist for best new restaurant in the nation by the James Beard Foundation. Also that year, it was been named one of the Top 10 best new restaurants by Bon Appetit and earned a glowing review in the New York Times.
Foodies may recall that Feast team opened a New Orleans branch of the restaurant. It closed in July of 2011. The Times Picayune’s Brett Anderson called said of the closing that it brought to “an end to one of the more intriguing and frustrating restaurant experiments undertaken in New Orleans in recent years.”
Ah, I miss this place. I am not downtown as often as I used to be, and used to really enjoyed having lunch here. The duck leg confit and the bubble and squeak are excellent.
why?????
Had a fantastic group dinner there a few months ago. Wonderfully unique and diverse. I'm glad I had the chance to dine there.
Nooo! I love Feast. I hope the end-of-lease just means they're relocating.
Any word on what new projects the owners will be working on after Feast closes?
Well, NOW where are we gonna go when we need a good snout n tail stew!?!
While not looking bad, the space (NOT the food) has been getting frayed. The landlord and restaurant would not take on the refurbishment. Certainly nine months is adequate time to obtain a new space, and I hope very much that occurs. Megan, James and Richard have a great operation that adds greatly to Houston.
Life is just full of continual Hello's
and Goodbyes! !!! So sad......
Not surprising.
You have to balance things - food and business. The food was outstanding, but maybe the behind-the-scenes business decisions were not up to snuff. Only they know, but I hope it is just a relocate.
Offal news! That's great! Whoever came up with that, good job!
EXCITING!?!?! Oh well. Apparently not exciting enough, they don't have enough business to keep the doors open. All of these "Exciting" new places die after the newest wears off, it takes more that "Exciting" to persevere in the Houston Restaurant scene.