“I felt like years ago if you had a bar with craft ice and cocktails, you were a step above everyone else,” said Stayer. A few meat dishes include a steak tartare topped with salsa macha and the pozole is a pork stew with hominy spiked with green chiles. A seafood cocktail currently includes shrimp and scallops bathed in lime juice before it’s tossed with a tomato broth. Instead, the team is drawing inspiration from Mexico and surrounding countries: Raw and roasted oysters can feature garnishes like smoked pork butter and pickled tomatillos.
The dishes, which Stayer says are meant to pair with agave-based drinks, are not strictly Mexican seafood dishes. For cocktails, Toasted Coconut’s Elena Vann is running the bar and there are about the same number of cocktails as dishes. A Mexican chef no longer runs the kitchen but Madalyn Lester, an alum of Nancy’s Hustle, worked with Stayer on the eight-item menu.
MORE FROM BAO ONG: Houston restaurant March lands on cover of Food & Wine magazineĪ two-year break gave the Stayers a chance to fine tune the menu with new hires. But between pandemic regulations and finding employees, it was too challenging to reopen an intimate, 14-seat bar until now, Martin Stayer said. The married couple, who are behind the popular Nobie’s restaurant, always intended to reopen Quiote. Starting today, this hidden speakeasy with a focus on cold seafood and cocktails is back at 1617 Richmond Avenue in Montrose. The new business lasted six weeks before the pandemic closed the bar and kept the spot a secret for over two years. Karen Warren/Staff photographer Show More Show Lessīack in early 2020, Martin and Sarah Stayer quietly opened Quiote inside their tiki-inspired bar the Toasted Coconut as a place Houstonians could only hang out if they secured an invitation. Karen Warren/Staff photographer Show More Show Less 5 of5 Cantarito cocktail: Arette Reposado, Del Maguey Vida, lime, orange, grapefruit, Squirt and salt on the menu at Quiote is a hidden bar inside Toasted Coconut on Thursday, Aug. Karen Warren/Staff photographer Show More Show Less 4 of5 Oysters on the menu at Quiote is a hidden bar inside Toasted Coconut on Thursday, Aug. Karen Warren/Staff photographer Show More Show Less 3 of5 M-m-m my Charanda cocktail: Urupan Charanda, hibiscus, peach, lime, mezcal rinse on the menu at Quiote is a hidden bar inside Toasted Coconut on Thursday, Aug. Karen Warren/Staff photographer Show More Show Less 2 of5 Chef Madalyn Lester behind the bar inside of Quiote is a hidden bar inside Toasted Coconut on Thursday, Aug. 1 of5 Exterior of Quiote is a hidden bar inside Toasted Coconut on Thursday, Aug.
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