A household pleasant Backyard Oaks restaurant is coming to Montgomery. D’Alba Craft Kitchen & Cocktails will open a brand new location this summer season close to the intersection of FM 2978 and FM 1488.
Situated within the former Philipose’s house at 32823 FM 2978 Rd, d’Alba proprietor Daut Elshani tells CultureMap that he’s been on the lookout for a location in The Woodlands/Woodforest/Magnolia space for a couple of yr. He sees a number of similarities between the rising northern suburbs and Backyard Oaks, the neighborhood the place d’Alba has been a neighborhood favourite because it opened in 2021.
“The recipe is there with younger skilled {couples} and younger households which have the identical demographics that match what we’ve carried out in Backyard Oaks to make the primary one so profitable,” Elshani says. “Within the final yr I moved to the suburbs myself. Seeing how full of life it’s, you’ll get some deja vu of how the Heights developed within the late twenty-teens.”
Slated to open in September, space residents will discover the identical components that led d’Alba to win Greatest New Restaurant within the 2022 CultureMap Tastemaker Awards. A meal at d’Alba could begin with shareable gadgets comparable to spinach and artichoke dip, campechana, or the signature balloon bread — a puffed-up, baked pita served with basil-garlic pesto and truffle honey drizzle. Entrees embrace pizzas, pastas, salads, and heartier mains comparable to blackened salmon, a cheeseburger, and confit rooster thighs — all of that are constituted of scratch.
The restaurant additionally provides a preferred comfortable hour and a full of life brunch. Elshani thinks the world’s relative dearth of Italian-inspired eating places will work to his benefit.
“[Compared to] Zanti in The Woodlands and Amalfi in Woodforest, we’ll be in the midst of them with a extra informal ambiance and the identical time of high quality at a lower cost. We’re undoubtedly enthusiastic about it,” he says.
At the moment, Elshani is performing renovations to transform Philipose’s into d’Alba. Adjustments embrace putting in massive doorways that may be opened throughout good climate, eliminating the outdated drop ceiling, upgrading the lighting, and dividing the room to enhance power and stream.
“We’re stoked and tremendous enthusiastic about getting this up and operating,” Elshani says.
A choice of dishes from d’Alba.
An Anvil veteran designed the cocktails.
