Agnes Café & Provisions, a venture of childhood friends Molly Voorhees and Carolyn Dorros, will take over the space previously occupied by Tropicales at 2132 Bissonnet in the Boulevard Oaks neighborhood near Rice University.
Voorhees, who is president of Becks Prime and The Chocolate Bar, and Carolyn Dorros, an executive vice president of Houston-based real estate development firm Wolff Cos., both live in the area and attended St. John's School in Houston.
While walking to get a break from home during COVID, Voorhees noticed other neighbors were also frequently out walking and socializing. She wanted to create a place where residents could walk to get coffee drinks or simply prepared foods you'd want to eat every day, and neighbors encouraged her. She enlisted the help of Dorros, a foodie and commercial real estate executive, to come up with a menu and bring her dream to reality.
"I very quickly said, 'Hey, why don't you do this with me?'" Voorhees recalled.
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Agnes Café & Provisions leased 2,225 square feet in the retail and office building developed by Platform Investment Group at the northeast corner of Shepherd Drive for an all-day café and boutique grocery. Michael Hsu Office of Architecture designed the building, which opened with all-day café Tropicales as a tenant in 2019. That restaurant closed about a year ago as the pandemic kept people at home rather than eating out.
Set to open in June, the new restaurant will offer indoor and outdoor dining with counter service during the day for pastries, breakfast and lunch and table service at night. The menu will feature Mediterranean food with influences from Spain, France and Turkey, cocktails, beer and hard-to-find wines.
Maury Bronstein and John S. Wall Jr. of 1912 Ventures represented the tenant in the lease. Steve Ybarra of The Platform Investment Group represented the landlord, Houston Bissonnet Shepherd LLC. The initial term is five years with options for renewal, Voorhees said.
Sean Garrison and Levi Lemaster of Garrison Design Office were tapped to design the interior, 500-square-foot patio and grocery retail space, which will sell gifts, grab-and-go items, baked goods and cookie dough.
Voorhees will draw upon the operating team of Becks Prime, a locally owned restaurant chain in business for 36 years, to facilitate operations of the new restaurant, which will employ about 25 people.
"There's a huge advantage to having a team that already knows what they're doing," Voorhees said.
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