Relish Fine Foods

Houston Magazine

zulucreative — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:07:17 +0000

PaperCity Magazine

zulucreative — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:27:07 +0000

What’s Cooking: She had us at the name. For a neighborhood gourmet market with that on-trend slow-food bent, “Relish” certainly has a great ring to it, don’t you think? Its hip 24-year-old proprietress, Addie D’Agostino (whose mother, Diane D’Agostino, owns Houston-based Elegant Edibles), is a French Culinary Institute grad who also designed the sleek interiors, with Carrara marble counters, clean white cubbies and chrome wire shelving, à la Dean & Deluca.

My Table Magazine

zulucreative — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:37:10 +0000

After some construction delays (so what’s new?) Addie D’Agostino finally got her boutique gourmet market open in early July. Just blocks from Central Market (and in the same development as Ouisie’s Table), it seems to take its inspiration from the late Eatzi’s, with ready-to-eat salads, sandwiches, dinner entrees and baked goods, as well as a small but smartly-chosen collection of groceries, including Way Back When dairy products, Slow Dough breads, Trentino gelato and imported pasta. D’Agostino, who has worked in New York City, has teamed up with chef Dustin Teague (formerly at A Fare Extraordinaire) and pastry chef Julie Hewitt.

002 Magazine

admin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:14:18 +0000

There is no compromise in quality of produce or product and the time it takes to make something the moment it’s ordered. It’s quality you can taste.

Houston Press

zulucreative — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:29:51 +0000

Relish reminds me of nothing so much as a smaller, more streamlined, less frenetic Central Market with easier parking.

Houston Press

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:04:02 +0000

Take a look inside the new Relish Fine Foods on San Felipe, which opened last Monday. The small store offers an array of local and gourmet foodstuffs as well as ready-made soups, salads, sandwiches and even pre-made family dinners to-go.

CultureMap Houston

admin — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:19:16 +0000

River Oaks isn’t exactly a foodie desert. Just a stone’s throw from where owner Addie D’Agostino has set up new mini-grocer and prepared foods market Relish Fine Foods stands Central Market. So what does D’Agostino have to counter the megastore? In brief, convenience and local quality. “You don’t have to weave through a maze,” D’Agostino says. “You don’t have to spend thirty minutes to get two things. And we make everything daily from scratch, so we think when people taste our food there’ll be no comparison.” D’Agostino conceived Relish during her time at the Culinary Institute of America and designed it to resemble the friendly neighborhood markets she encountered in her travels to Europe. She returned to Houston to put the idea together, partnering with chef Dustin Teague of A Fare Extraordinaire.

Houston Press

admin — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:52:04 +0000

And over in River Oaks, Relish Fine Foods is celebrating its grand opening this Monday and Tuesday at 3951 San Felipe. The store stocks meat, bread, produce and other groceries from local vendors wherever possible and — like Revival Market — has a small but charming cafe component to it as well with sandwiches, soups and salads on the menu.

My Table Magazine

admin — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:48:04 +0000

Cute isn’t a bad thing, if you do it right. Freshly opened Relish Fine Foods (3951 San Felipe) is still waiting for a few fixtures to come in, but the kitchen is fully functioning. Available now are house-made prepared brownies and cookies, as well as lunch and dinner items such as the wild rice shrimp salad with edamame and a jalapeno pimento cheese sandwich. Kitchen staples such as dry pasta, salt, olive oil, meat from Al Marcus of The Grateful Bread and fresh baked bread from Slow Dough can be purchased in their retail section, too. Remember Eatzie’s on Post Oak Blvd.? This little nook is a smaller, chicer version of the long gone market-eatery

Swamplot

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:50:09 +0000

This building at 3951 San Felipe, just west of Willowick, may have started out as a gas station, but it’s also spent time as a cleaners and most recently was a bank.