{"id":102344,"date":"2025-12-28T04:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102344\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T04:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:41:17","slug":"honest-marys-opens-in-river-oaks-and-more-houston-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102344\/","title":{"rendered":"Honest Mary&#8217;s opens in River Oaks and more Houston news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: It&#8217;s time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, including restaurant openings and a major acquisition for MFAH. Plus, where to celebrate New Year&#8217;s Eve in Houston. Catch up on our most popular stories below, then visit this guide to the <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/entertainment\/best-weekend-events-december-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">best Christmas weekend events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/restaurants-bars\/honest-marys-restaurant-podcast-interview\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meet the men behind River Oaks&#8217; new destination for bowls and broth<\/a>. On this episode of \u201cWhat\u2019s Eric Eating,\u201d Honest Mary\u2019s founder Nelson Monteith and COO Andrew Wiseheart joined CultureMap editor <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/u\/eric\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Sandler<\/a> to discuss the Austin-based restaurant that just opened its first Houston location in the River Oaks Shopping Center.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/restaurants-bars\/candente-texmex-restaurant-bellaire-opening\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston&#8217;s only Michelin-recognized Tex-Mex restaurant now open in Bellaire<\/a>. It didn\u2019t take Sambrooks Hospitality Group long to turn Mandito\u2019s into Candente. First announced in September, the restaurant\u2019s second location officially opened December 22.<\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/restaurants-bars\/new-years-eve-dining-houston\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">25 Houston restaurants celebrating New Year&#8217;s Eve with caviar, bubbles, and more<\/a>. Houston restaurants are ringing in the new year with indulgent menus featuring caviar, lobster, and steak, along with plenty of bubbly. <\/p>\n<p>4. <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/arts\/mfah-greenspace-property-purchase\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston museum acquires historic Masonic lodge property for new greenspace<\/a>. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has acquired a prime parcel to expand its campus in the Museum District. <\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image image-crop-4x3\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Holland Lodge masonic building\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"8bf358ebff30d2193efc7aedfb36a9f3\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/media-library\/holland-lodge-masonic-building.jpg?id=62626813&amp;width=2000&amp;height=1500&amp;quality=50&amp;coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0\" height=\"1500\" id=\"dd481\" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%202000%201500'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"2000\"\/> The building at 4911 will be torn down for the new greenspace.             Holland Lodge No. 1, A.F. &amp; A.M.\/Facebook         <\/p>\n<p>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/city-life\/top-city-news-houston-2025\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston&#8217;s richest residents, best suburbs, and more top city news in 2025<\/a>. As 2025 comes to a close, we&#8217;re looking back at the stories that defined Houston this year. These are the City Life stories that captured Houston&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s note: It&#8217;s time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, including restaurant openings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[427,56,58,57,21392,7959,14353,423,4395],"class_list":{"0":"post-102344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-hot-headlines","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-mfah","13":"tag-most-popular-stories","14":"tag-new-years-eve","15":"tag-openings","16":"tag-podcasts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}