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Chef Diego Fernandez, fresh from Pappas Restaurants as Research and Development chef , will helm the kitchen at 55 Seventy.<\/p>\nMomentum is building toward the late fall opening of Texas\u2019 second 55 Seventy, the wildly popular, tr\u00e9s chic wine and social club that launched in Dallas four years ago. Now PaperCity has learned that two chefs with Michelin bonafides are being brought on board, highlighting the private club\u2019s culinary excellence.<\/p>\n
Chef Diego Fernandez, fresh from Pappas Restaurants as Research and Development chef , will helm the kitchen at 55 Seventy.<\/p>\n
Coming on as executive chef is Diego Fernandez, who has worked at two different three Michelin starred restaurants \u2014 Quince<\/a> in San Francisco and Alinea<\/a> in Chicago. Most recently Fernandez has served as the research and development chef for Pappas Restaurants.<\/p>\n Fernandez\u2019s areas of expertise includes fine dining, luxury hospitality and destination resorts.<\/p>\n Chef Jacob Solomon, tapped as the new 55 Seventy executive banquet chef, honed his craft in celebrated Chicago kitchens including the Michelin starred Peninsula Hotel. He then went on to lead Michelin-starred Dusek\u2019s Board & Beer as chef de cuisine and later served as executive chef at Second City.<\/p>\n \u201cWe knew the bar for food in Houston was extremely high, and we couldn\u2019t afford to compromise,\u201d 55 Seventy Founder Tommy Shuey tells PaperCity. \u201cWe were only planning to hire one executive chef, but we got lucky enough to find two incredibly talented chefs. And we couldn\u2019t pass up on either of them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBetween them, Diego and Jacob bring real Michelin experience to the table, and that background is exactly what will help them build on the incredible culinary program Josh Sutcliff established (in the Dallas club). They\u2019re going to raise the bar for 55 Seventy, not just in Houston, but in Dallas too.\u201d<\/p>\n The new 55 Seventy Houston culinary team is comprised of 40 dedicated food and beverage professionals operating two distinct restaurants: the main dining room and a second restaurant located on the 10,000-square-foot rooftop patio with a view to Levy Park and its massive oak trees. Additionally, the club features a state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen designed for experiential dinners, seasonal cooking classes and pop-ups.<\/p>\n The club offers eight distinct, versatile spaces designed to accommodate private occasions with a high level of bespoke service. The robust event programming \u2014 ranging from workshops to social gatherings \u2014 is led by Solomon.<\/p>\n 55 Seventy offers four exclusive tiers of membership, each providing a range of benefits, including a Founder\u2019s Lounge accessible only to Founder\u2019s Equity Members, the club\u2019s most elite membership level. That level of membership is invite-only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Momentum is building toward the late fall opening of Texas\u2019 second 55 Seventy, the wildly popular, tr\u00e9s chic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-388740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388740","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=388740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jacob](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jacob-Solomon.jpg\")
Chef Jacob Solomon serves as Opening Executive Banquet Chef at 55 Seventy<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Bar-scaled.jpg\")
The bar in Houston\u2019s 55 Seventy private wine and social club which is expected to open in the fall of 2026. (Rendering courtesy of Gin Design Group))<\/p>\n