On this week’s episode of “What’s Eric Consuming,” cooks Kirthan and Kripa Shenoy be a part of CultureMap editor Eric Sandler to debate their eating places EaDough and Auden.
Open since 2022, EaDough is a bakery and low store in EaDo that serves freshly baked pastries and sweets at breakfast with pita bowls for lunch. The married cooks inform Sandler that they’ve been capable of incorporate South Asian flavors into their menu by serving gadgets corresponding to nihari kolaches and rooster tikka pita pockets.
Auden, which not too long ago earned an honorable point out on Texas Month-to-month’s checklist of the state’s greatest new eating places for 2025, took a short while to search out its groove. Kripa notes that the restaurant obtained labeled positive eating, which was by no means the cooks’ intention. Kirthan provides that the restaurant’s preliminary menu was too involved with being just like different eating places within the space.
“We’ve by no means been not happy with the meals that we had been cooking at Auden, however now we are able to say Auden is a real illustration of Kripa and myself,” he says. “Even from the service, we’re coaching the servers to be themselves and loosen up. Even when somebody had the worst meal of their life or one of the best meal, they’re nonetheless going to be hungry once more in a couple of hours. Don’t take it too personally. Take the whole lot professionally. The imposter syndrome is gone after a year-and-a-half.”
Hearken to the total episode to listen to the cooks discuss why they aspire to open a neighborhood bar, in addition to the Houston bars they most take pleasure in patronizing.
On this week’s different episode, Sandler and co-host Lawton Driscoll talk about the information of the week. First, they talk about the state of Houston steakhouses in mild of the latest closures of Andiron and Savoir/Patton’s. Then, they discuss Texas Month-to-month’s aforementioned greatest new eating places checklist and a’Bouzy proprietor Shawn Virene’s plans to open Succulent Fantastic Eating, a California-inspired restaurant in Montrose.
Within the eating places of the week section, the 2 pals talk about their latest meal at Haii Keii. They discover rather a lot to love about their meal on the recently-opened Higher Kirby pan-Asian restaurant, together with lobster dumplings, sushi, and an Australian wagyu ribeye. Tune in to listen to which dishes got here up brief and whether or not they plan to return for an additional meal.
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