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Urban winery ﬁnds spot on T.C. Jester Live Music at By Michael Sudhalter michael@theleadernews.com

Solaro Estate Winery, which recently opened at 330 T.C. Jester Blvd. (just south of I-10), hopes to put Texas Wines on the map. “We are promoters of Texas wines – California wines started in the ‘60s, grew and had a boom,” said Robert Fritz, owner of Solaro, which makes all of its own wines. We’re working on introducing quality Texas wines to the world. All of our wines are made with Texas grapes – either from the Hill Country, or the High Plains near Lubbock.” Solaro has won more than 30 international awards for its wines, including the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Uncorked Competition, 2014 International Women’s Wine Competition, the 2014 San

Francisco Wine Competition, the 2014 Denver International Wine Competition and many more. The Estate Winery title means that wine is made from the grapes to the glass, and it never leaves. There are only a handful of them in Texas. Solaro began selling wine in 2009, and its estate location, complete with a vineyard, is in Dripping Springs, a few miles west of Austin. Since 2009, Solaro has sold 25-to-30 different wines, and they are marketed directly to high-end restaurants. They’re not found in grocery stores or liquor stores. “We make wine with an old world method – no additives,” Fritz said. “Our wine is very exclusive.” The winery is open for tastings and private events. Regular hours are 1-9 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

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on Friday and Saturday, and all other times by appointment by calling 832-486-7112. The Urban Winery includes two tasting rooms, two courtyards, winery offices and an area for wine storage. Fritz said opening an urban winery near Houston was the perfect fit, given the residents of the area, specifically near I-10 and T.C. Jester. “We want people from around the world to come to Houston and leave knowing Texas Wine is world class,” Fritz said. “Texans are loyal and support local products, especially if they are shown to be the best in the world.” Solaro is also an environmentally conscious winery that is self-sustainable, said Fritz. On Aug. 2, Solaro will host a “Get to Know Your Wine Event.” For more information, log on to solaroestate.com

On Studemont, just south of Washington Ave. is Beer Market Co. with over 365 different kinds of beer and a ton of entertainment with Thirsty 30 HDTVs and live muExplorer sic during the summer months. Starting at 9 p.m., on Friday, July 25, Michael Flores will perform, and on Friday, Aug. 1, there will be a performance by The Coveralls. Beer Market Company is a relaxed, “come as you are” kind of place. After work or after your jog at the park– either way, you will feel as if you were in your own living room. But better, because of the beer, which they rotate on a regular basis so you won’t get bored. There are over 80 different beer styles around the world Thirsty and at Beer Market Co. you can try them all. If you get hungry, Explorer they have an extensive and delicious menu to complement all your beer choices. For more information about Beer Market Co., located at 920 Studemont, Ste. 900, visit www.beermarketco.com or find them on Facebook. Summer Pils Pub Crawl Saint Arnold Brewing Company will be holding their annual Summer Pils Pub Crawl this Saturday, July 19 in Downtown Houston. Get your first ticket between 2 and 3 p.m. at whichever of the six stops you decide to visit first. The first six stops are Brewery Tap, El Big Bad, Flying Saucer, Molly’s Pub, OKRA Charity Saloon, Shay McElroy’s, and Springbok Bar & Grill. At 6 p.m., everybody will gather at the final stop, Market Square Park, and that’s where they will award the prize, a glorious Saint Arnold pint glass. Designated drivers are eligible for the award and encouraged to attend. They hold those that arrange for transportation to and from or use designated drivers in the highest regard. For more information, visit www.saintarnold.com/news. Common Vision Tour hits Fitzgerald’s Handguns and Forever Came Calling will perform at Fitzgerald’s this Saturday, July 19 as part of the Pure Noise Records Presents: Common Vision Tour. Other bands on the tour include Hundredth, Counterparts, Being As An Ocean, Capsize and My Iron Lung. Fitzgerald’s is located at 2706 White Oak. For more information, visit www.fitzlivemusic.com. The Final Tapping of Station 68 Karbach has been holding Station 68 Nights all over our area to raise awareness and support the Robert Garner Firefighter Foundation. The final tapping of Station 68 will be held from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, July 26 at Karbach Brewing Co. Station 68 is a brew specifically designed for the foundation and named for the station where Robert Garner served. It is a bold, opulent beer featuring a refined smooth roasted nuttiness complemented by vanilla and raisin sweetness. This beer has been finished on oak, creating an enduring subtle wood character. So raise a glass and keep the glass for a good cause. Proceeds from the beer go towards the charity’s efforts to put brave individuals through training without the financial burden. For more about Karbach Brewing Co., located at 2032 Karbach St., visit www.karbachbrewing.com. To learn more about RGFF and their mission, visit www.garnerfoundation.com.

The Solaro Estate Winery has opened an Urban Winery at 330 T.C. Jester Blvd., just south of I-10. (Submitted photo)

Nibbles: Houston Culinary Awards By Betsy Denson betsy@theleadernews.com

Dining magazine My Table recently posted the list of finalists for their Houston Culinary Awards and Leader establishments are front and center. In the Restaurateur of the Year category, the Laurenzo family (Laurenzo’s, El Tiempo), Shepard Ross (Glass Wall) and Claire Smith (Shade) made the short list. Coltivare’s Ryan Pera is up for Chef of the Year while Travis Lenig with Liberty Kitchen & Oysterette and Amalia Pferd of Good Dog Hot Dog are finalists for Up-and-Coming Chef of the Year. For a complete list of finalists in every category, visit http://www.houstonculinaryawards.com/. Mangum Food Park gone? Maybe it’s just a summer hiatus but the

Mangum Food Park’s last food truck update was on June 3. Their Facebook page status is listed as “Permanently Closed” meaning that Facebook users have reported them as permanently closed. No deﬁnitive word from the owners yet. Here’s hoping they will be back in the cooler weather. Houston, we have (more) fried chicken. The Chronicle’s Alison Cook reports that food truck pioneer Josh Martinez, along with veteran foodie Paul Sedillo will open The Chicken Ranch on North Main in the Heights, in late September. The Chicken Ranch will be the ﬁrst entry for the newly formed Spindle Peak restaurant group. What’s on the menu besides fried chicken? “Super bad-ass sides” in a Southern comfort style according to Sedillo. Cowboy Surfers window gets closer Lance Fegen and Lee Ellis, owners of Liberty Kitchen in the Heights, are closer to opening

the long-anticipated Cowboy Surfers at 34th and Ella in the Oak Forest area. The restaurant will begin an estimated six months of construction this week, but there is no speciﬁc date for it to open. Fegen and Ellis have stated for a long time that the restaurant’s menu would be comprised of ﬁve food groups – burgers, fried chicken, pizza, tacos and alcohol. It’s a new line up at Houston Panini & Provisions Out with the yummy, but old, in with the yummy and new for one W. 34th St. restaurant. Houston Panini & Provisions wrote on their Facebook page that starting this week, they will have a whole new line up of Paninis. If you go, get a look at their new hydroponic garden, courtesy of Old School Produce, an Oak Forest company that designs custom gardens for businesses and individuals.

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Review: Gelazzi does Gelato good Recently Leader Eater was strolling down a main street in the Prospect Heights area of Brooklyn. And although this area of New York has become a trend parody of itself, there is no denying the compression of coolness, especially for an out-of-towner looking to kill time in an afternoon. Book stores, coffee shops, ethnic grocers, funky gift shops, a multitude of restaurant options, record stores and of course, an ice cream shop. I couldn’t help but think that, however not quite as dense as this area of Brooklyn, the White Oak and Studewood Crossing is starting to evolve into the same type of urban destination. (And just like New Yorkers with Brooklyn, there are Houstonians fond of griping about the area’s supposedly obnoxious gentriﬁcation.) But the Heights’ evolving food and drink district has had one thing missing: a solid ice cream shop. In the way that a coffee shop can become a community’s cultural catalyst (see Antidote) and a bar or music venue can be the cornerstone of an area’s night life (see Fitzgerald’s and Onion Creek), an ice cream shop plays its own essential role in a neighborhood’s maturation into a full-blown destination. A scoop of ice cream in a wafﬂe cone or even in a cup is best consumed on a walk down a sidewalk - it just is. A sandwich or even a drink cannot cut it

Leader Eater enjoyed Gelazzi on White Oak Drive.

Gelazzi 3601 White Oak Drive www.gelazzi.com One scoop of gelato: $3 Two scoops of gelato: $4 Three scoops of gelato: $5 Kid Friendly: 18 ﬂavors – all kid friendly LE’s Favorite: Italian Lemon Ice

as a sidekick for just kickin’ it in the neighborhood. And foot trafﬁc is the lifeblood of a vibrant area. That’s what White Oak has been missing, but a new gelato (ice cream’s more sophisticated Italian cousin) joint opened up eight weeks ago that has seemingly ﬁlled it. Gelazzi is a narrow horizontal strip of a soda shop/gelato peddler/pizzeria that sits between Revival Market and Happy Fatz, the perfect location for grabbing

one of the 18 different gelatos and Italian ices that make up Gelazzi’s Technicolor case of chilled goodness and taking it to the streets. Before you even put a scoop of pistachio gelato in your mouth, you are struck by the classic character in the place from the Chicago Theater-style sign in lights to the clean design and sleek lines. But then you do try the gelato – hopefully with plenty of mini spoonfuls of samples ﬁrst – and can taste the half century

of frozen craftsmanship in the Italian Lemon Ice especially, which has been touted by the place’s owner as a family recipe dating back to Chicago in the 1950s. Or the cup of Butter Pecan that Leader Eater’s ice cream slinger touted as hopefully someday rivalling Blue Bell. You’re getting there, for sure. There is a richness in Gelazzi’s gelato ﬂavors that stops short of trying too hard (like the ice cream at a recently-open creamery in the neighborhood) and provides a smooth ﬁnish, especially from the Italian Lemon Ice. It’s also a refreshing departure from the over-styled, serve -yourself frozen yogurt establishments that have invaded Houston. And just wait until they start serving pizza-by-the-slice in a few weeks (another hollow space in the city’s culinary offerings). Even if you aren’t feeling the lick-and-stroll approach to consuming gelato, Gelazzi has a back patio – picnic tables and umbrellas and an appropriate Bocce ball court to round out its chic Old World theme. But the masterpiece of marketing and primary aesthetic draw for Gelazzi is their stunning “Welcome to Houston” mural on the east side of the building. Actually, it was exactly like the splashy mural on the side of the wall at the ice cream place I stopped by in Brooklyn... only better.

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Teenager starts Food4them to battle hunger by Adam Hoﬀman for the Leader

This past summer, I set out on a mission. I decided to join the front lines of the battle against hunger throughout Houston, including the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church’s Food Pantry. I knew how it was fought based on my experience of volunteering at food banks and pantries. I saw holes in the system and realized it was up to me, a member of the community, to ﬁll them. So, at age 13, I launched a charitable organization, Food4them. Food4them was created to pick up short dated food from stores that would thrown out or not good by the time the Houston Food Bank would come to pick it up; thus salvaging and donating thousands of pounds of food that would otherwise be thrown away. In addition to serving my home town of Houston, Food4them delivers food to the needy in small towns outside of Houston that have trouble helping their poor because of their lack of resources. My project ﬁlled a niche within the food donating world. Food4them has not only changed the lives of the people it serves. After I founded it, I initiated food deliveries and projects. I invited friends, family, and neighbors to join me. These undertakings are some of the most inspiring moments. Volunteers have described to me their thrill when doing these good deeds. Recently, I brought a group of 12 year-olds from a local day camp with me to donate food. It gave them appreciation for what they have, motivation from the food pantry volunteers, and momentum to go help out their community as best they could. Food4them has created a ripple effect,

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Local residents, young and old, with a sweet tooth enjoyed the Norhill Neighborhood Association’s second annual Ice Cream Social last Saturday. All of the ice cream was homemade and winners were selected for the People’s Choice (Peanut Butter Chocolate – Jenna Guillory and Josh Duncan), Best Traditional (Mint Chocolate Chip – Rick and Caroline Wachtman) and Most Unique (Mimosa-for adults only – Justin Engle). (Photos by Michael Sudhalter)

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Waltrip athletes train for upcoming season By Michael Sudhalter

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Waltrip High football coach Todd Wright is preparing his time – and the rest of the school’s athletes – for the upcoming athletic season. The Rams ﬁrst-year head coach is hosting weight training and speed training sessions during the week. He said about 25-to-30 athletes show up each day between 8 a.m. and noon. “I like to see every male and female athlete in the school out there,” Wright said. “We want to get the word out there about what we’re doing.” Wright arrived at Waltrip in May after working as the defensive coordinator at College Park High in The Woodlands. He succeeds the late Milton Dailey, who resigned during the spring and passed away last month at the age of 67. Wright and his staff have been helping the athletes cope with the loss of Dailey, a coach who was well-liked

Waltrip High athletes have been going through oﬀseason training drills this summer. (Submitted photos)

and respected throughout the school. Wright retained Dailey’s staff and brought in Wayne Wheeler, who was the offensive coordinator at College Park last season. Wright expects to double as head coach and defensive coordinator. At quarterback, he said

junior Nick Hollas will likely start when the Rams open the season on Aug. 29 at Waller High. Hollas split time with then-senior Tre Johnson in the pocket last season. “Nick’s got a really good arm, and he’s a really smart kid,” Wright said. “He can read defenses and read weaknesses. Waller will be a handful. Their

kids are in the weight room every day, and they do things we’ll do as we grow into when our kids are in the weight room every day.” Spring Woods (at DelmarTusa) and Caney Creek (in Conroe) will round out the non-district schedule, and the Rams will begin 5A district competition against Madison

The Rams will host two scrimmages on campus – the ﬁrst on Aug. 16 against Kashmere and Washington and the second on Aug. 22 against Beaumont Central. “We hope to have a good crowd, ice cream and some food for a good family atmosphere,” Wright said.

High in September. “I’m sure they’ll have an advantage with numbers, because they’re used to playing bigger and stronger teams,” Wright said. Before the regular season kicks off, Wright said players must turn in their physicals before two-a-day practices begin on Aug. 4.

St. Pius X ﬁnishes 2-2 at State 7-on-7 Tournament

Section Champions

By Michael Sudhalter michael@theleadernews.com

The Lindale Little League 9-10 year old softball team won the District 25 Championship last month and followed that up with a section title last week. They’ll compete in the state tournament this weekend. The players are Virginia Garcia,Angelina Garcia, Mary Medina, Sophia Rodriguez, Celine Deleon, Aerial Garza, Ava Martinez, Alicia Mecedo, Sara Peyrani, Jessica Smith and Gracelynn Alvarez (not pictured). The manager is Armando Peyrani and coaches are Rick Rodriguez, Joe Martinez and Andrew Morris. The league president is Vincente Valdez and the league vice president is Octavio Pena. (Submitted photo)

St. Pius X football players, coaches and fans got a chance to see Clay Roberts in his ﬁrst competitive situation as a Panther. And SPX ﬁrst-year head coach Stephen Hill was thoroughly impressed with the Manvel transfer at the Division II State 7-on-7 Tournament last week in College Station. “He turned a lot of heads,” Hill said of the junior signal caller who threw 15 touchdown passes in four games last week. “He’s just got a good grasp of the offense and always puts us in position to make a play.” Pius played in one of the toughest pools in the state tournament. They defeated Prairiland, 40-13, before winning a hard-fought game against La Grange, 42-35, to punch their ticket into the championship bracket. Graham, the eventual tour-

The St. Pius X football team, pictured during an intrasquad scrimmage in May, went 2-2 at the State 7-on-7 Tournament last week. (Photo by Michael Sudhalter)

nament champion, defeated the Panthers, 53-6, in the ﬁnal game of pool play. In the ﬁrst game of the championship bracket, Palmer – from the Dallas-Fort Worth area – edged the Panthers, 3226. Hill was impressed with senior wide receiver Darius Law and junior wide receiver Nick

Minkoff. Senior running back Micah Massey showed that he’s more than capable of catching passes out of the backﬁeld. Defensively, Hill said senior Jalen Smith – who had three interceptions – and junior linebacker Terrell Franklin were impressive.

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BASTIAN, from P. 1A thing possible to work with Bastian and have even approved two of the three homes he wants to build on the 22,000-square-foot area. “We have met with Michael no less than five times, and we have been very clear, from the beginning, about what is acceptable,” WallaceBrown said. “The problem is that he wants to build something that is bigger, wider and taller than anything typical in the district.” According to Wallace-Brown, the dimensions of the house that cannot be approved are far beyond any other historic home in the area. “He wants a ridge height that is 38 feet,” she said. “The tallest in the district is 36 feet. He wants a house that is 49 feet wide. The next closest in the district is 40 feet wide, and most of them are 36, 35 and 34 feet wide.” The historic story The Leader has published a number of stories about the HAHC, a group of 13 appointed members who are tasked with enforcing the city’s Historic Preservation Ordinance, which was passed in 2010. According to Wallace-Brown, the commission has been largely successful. In her latest figures, she says HAHC approved 84 percent of all projects brought before the group in 2013. Of course, those numbers include applications in every historic district in the city of Houston. It does not break out the number of deferrals and denials in the three historic districts of the Heights. At issue in the Heights is the lack of design guidelines for those seeking to build homes. Every historic district in the city has a definitive set of guidelines. Builders know exactly what they can and cannot do to a home, unless that home is in the Heights. Instead, when a home in the historic districts of the Heights is brought before the commission, owners are left at the complete, subjective mercy of the HAHC members. And while there are 13 members of HAHC, there are only four who usually speak at meetings. Three of those four seemingly enjoy deferring or denying Certificates of Appropriateness to people who want to construct or remodel homes in this area. Wallace-Brown says the city’s Planning Department is available to work with every owner seeking to make a change or build in the Heights. Bastian would contend that no matter what you try to accomplish with the Planning Department and HAHC, criteria can change overnight and it’s difficult to get a straight answer. The size issue Bastian is a homebuilder. He’s also

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a businessman. When he bought the property in the Heights West historic district, he wanted to build nice homes and he wanted to make a profit on them. Even though he has two of his three home plans approved, he has invested “close to $80,000” on the project beyond the nearly $2 million he paid for the lots. Earlier this week, he sent an email to friends and supporters of his project to let them know that he couldn’t handle working with the city and HAHC any longer. “The 16 months of dealing with bureaucrats that really want NO new construction despite their vehement denial of that has taken its toll on me emotionally and ﬁnancially,” Bastian wrote. “We have two houses ‘approved’ by the Houston Archaeological and Hysterical Committee on the Rutland side. The level of compromise REQUIRED by HAHC made them unidentiﬁable from the original plans. When you are in the heat of the battle, you give a little, but when you step back and look at what was ‘approved,’ you recoil in disgust.” As for the large home Bastian wants to build, he said it will never be approved. “[HAHC says] that a big house is OK as long as it isn’t bigger than the typical contributing house in the district,” he wrote. “In other words, it can be big as long as it is small. They wanted a 25-foot setback even though the City setback is 10 feet AND the average setback of ALL corner contributing houses in the West Historic District is 11 feet.” Wallace-Brown understands Bastian’s frustration, but she said she and her department are working within the boundaries of the Historic Preservation Ordinance. “We felt it was too massive and too large,” she said. “We gave him the typical dimensions, and the last we heard from him, he was going to go back to work on it.” What happens next While Bastian holds out a glimmer of hope that something can be resolved, he has begun the process of looking for buyers of the lots. He said he’s had interest from two developers who would consider putting multi-family dwellings on the lots. In his letter to supporters, he said at least one of those companies has reached out to the Planning Department to get information on building apartments there. Wallace-Brown said she had been contacted by one real estate company but had not heard about apartments yet. “Even if somebody wants to build apartments, they’re going to have to go through the same process,” she said. “Any new structure in the his-

toric district has to go through the same approval that Michael has.” Bastian said he wouldn’t hold a ﬁre-sale on the property, but he doesn’t believe he can continue the project he set out to complete. “Yes, I have two of the plans approved, but they look like [expletive],” he said. “The architectural integrity of the project has been completely compromised.” Bastian said part of the problem is the staff at the Planning Department. “The younger people [on the Planning Department staff] don’t know what they’re doing,” he said. “They don’t understand that you can’t sell a house that has an odd-looking outside... They don’t understand that the pitch of the roof is important to the structure of the house. There’s functionality to a house that nobody up there talks about.” Some upset neighbors Bastian isn’t the only one mad that the homes are not going to be built. Katie Pearson and her husband, Adam, bought a home next to the former poultry plant and were excited about the plans they saw from Bastian. “Our Realtor emailed them to us, and they were gorgeous, beautiful homes,” Katie Pearson said. “They would have been a tremendous addition to our neighborhood.” Pearson said there are several new houses in the area that were nearly the same size as the proposed house Bastian wanted to build on the corner lot. “I just don’t understand it,” she said. The homes Pearson mentioned were built before the Historic Preservation Ordinance of 2010, and another neighbor, Randy Johnson knows all about them. He lives in one that was built in 2006. “I foolishly signed the petition to create the Heights West Historic District because I knew the chicken plant would eventually get torn down, and I feared that the new construction would not match the residential character of the neighborhood,” Johnson said. “My neighbors and I universally supported Mr. Bastian’s Rutland plans back in March 2014. The changes that were being mandated by HAHC we capricious and nit-picky.” Johnson blames the city and those charged with leading responsible development in neighborhoods like the Heights. “The city Planning Department and Councilwoman Ellen Cohen appear to lack the willpower or ability to reform the HAHC,” he said. “There is a total lack of leadership by City Council. Nobody is willing to reign in the HAHC.”

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