Shawn Gawle's first solo restaurant, opened March 2025 in The Heights — a former metal-and-woodworking workshop that Schaum Architects reworked into a clean-lined room of warm light woods, vaulted skylights, and a dining room, bar, and lounge. Gawle's pedigree is serious: pastry tenures at L20 in Chicago, Veritas in New York, and Saison and Quince in San Francisco, then executive pastry chef at Goodnight Hospitality, where he helped open March. He was named Best New Pastry Chef by Food & Wine and Pastry Chef of the Year at CultureMap's 2023 awards. The format is fine-casual: a $75 three-course prix fixe of contemporary American cooking rooted in French technique facing the open kitchen, plus à la carte in the lounge. For Houston's most quietly assured chef-driven debut.
