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PRESS: Weekend wonderland with a Bloody Mary Bar
West Ave’s new posh St. Genevieve is a weekend wonderland of people watching — with a Bloody Mary Bar By Caroline Gallay 10.17.11 | 11:26 am My first visit to West Ave’s new St. Genevieve unfortunately didn’t include a stop at the establishment’s build-your-own Bloody Mary bar. But it did include an amazingly coiffed-yet-bro-like bouncer, a self-entitled socialite sighting, a horrendous dirty martini and a much better replacement watermelon mojito. And a lot of fun. I knew I wasn’t in Midtown (where owners...
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Saint Genevieve brings interesting cocktails, small eats to West Ave. << The week in wine, September 19 | Main | Director talks Nirvana 20 years after “Punk Broke” >> Sarah Tressler at 2:21 pm on September 19, 2011 David Chisolm pours two Titos Vodka. Photo by Thomas B. SheaWell, they’ve done it again. The Van Delden brothers, the duo behind Wonderbar, Red Door and Sawyer Park, opened another spot in late August — but instead of Midtown or Washington, they’ve taken up shop in the tony West Ave complex. Saint...
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Saint Genevieve brings swanky cocktails and food inspired by mysterious woman << Tommy Wiseau from The Room stars in Wicked Poseur’s awesome new video | Main | For the most part, Double Cross is a place to chill >> Greg Morago at 2:29 pm on October 31, 2011 St. Genevieve owner Darren Van Delden. Photo by Nick de la TorreIf you ask Saint Genevieve owner Darren Van Delden about the name of his super swank bar you’ll get a mysterious answer about a woman. There is a Genevieve, he says — a woman he met a year ago on holiday...
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Behind the Bar: Destiny Ellis at Saint Genevieve Joey Guerra at 10:02 am on November 2, 2011 Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle photo Find her behind the bar at: Saint Genevieve, 2800 Kirby Hours: 4 p.m.-2 a.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sundays Length of time working at current place? Almost three months. Lamest pickup line you’ve heard at the bar? “Is that your real name? Then it was my Destiny to have you as my bartender.” Most famous person you’ve ever served a drink to? Robert Ellis. (Her husband. All together now —...
read morePRESS: Drink of the week at Saint Genevieve
Saint Genevieve provides the sleek to our drink of the week BY MARCY DE LUNA 09.29.11 | 10:57 am With all the buzz surrounding the opening of Saint Genevieve, I stopped by to check out the new bar located on the second level of West Ave. Brought to us by entrepreneurial brothers Jeff and Darren Van Delden — whose other ventures in town include The Red Door, Sawyer Park and Wonder Bar — the place didn’t take long to catch on, and it was a packed house. While you’ll certainly notice the crowd (perfect...
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