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Hello, Goodbye: This Week’s Openings, Closures and Other Tasty Bits

The Annie duck leg confit (photo by Jenn Duncan)

HERE'S WHO'S POPPING in and what's going down this week in Houston's dynamic restaurant scene.

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Wine Café Offers Fun, Budget-Friendly Options for Late Summer Sips and Bites

Jenn Duncan

IT’S SUMMER AND the living might be easy, but not so much on the pocketbook. Phoenix-born Postino Wine Café, which is popping up all over H-Town, is offering creative ways to keep you well fed — and watered — without breaking the bank during this historically high inflation, through Sept. 5. They’ve hit the easy button on summer wining and dining, and we’re fans.

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Born in Houston and Made in France, Matthew Massey’s First-of-Its-Kind Champagne Really Pops

Phoebe Rourke

Matthew Massey at Lees Den, one of many Houston restaurants pouring his 100-calorie-per-serving Madame Zero Champagne.

AFTER YEARS OF visiting Europe for international oil and gas biz roles and discovering wine through different cultures, Houstonian Matthew Massey was inspired. He explored many of the 319 villages in Champagne, France, to learn more about different terroir styles of wine. It’s “the one region that is driven by style as opposed to a wine of place,” says Massey, who, incidentally, was introduced to the drink as a teen while working at Gaido’s in Galveston.

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