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Piada Italian Street Food coming to Pearland Town Center

Italian-food chain Piada Italian Street Food is slated to open in the Pearland Town Center in late August, an employee with the business said.

On the menu: Salads, tossed pastas and flatbread wraps known as piadas are on the menu. These items can be customized with different proteins, sauces, vegetables and cheeses. 

What else: Side dishes include sweet corn salad, garlic dough, calamari and hot peppers and meatballs, among other items, according to the business’s website.

📍 11302 Broadway St., Ste. 102, Pearland
 

 
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Cocody Nails & Spa opening in Friendswood

Located across from the Friendswood Public Library, the nail salon offers specialty manicures and pedicures, nail enhancements and waxing, according to its website.

At a glance

Featuring services such as a CBD spa manicure and a coconut milk spa manicure, the salon specializes in classic and trendy nail art, acrylic polish and shellac manicures.

Cocody Nails & Spa’s website also lists services for children ages 10 and younger, offering a toddler pedicure for $18 and a kid’s manicure for $12.

📍 501 S. Friendswood Drive, Ste. 140, Friendswood
 

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Check out these new restaurants and bars opening across the Houston area.

After a divine vision and a lifetime of inspiration from her entrepreneurial parents, Gloria Taylor traded real estate for the restaurant kitchen to open Apple-licious Bakery Bistro, a soul food spot built on faith, family and second chances. 


At Apple-licious Bakery Bistro customers can find honey crisp and granny smith flavored pastries from cheesecakes to pies and 20 different gourmet candy apples as well as breakfast tacos, apple wood smoked pulled pork, quiches, sandwiches, soups and salads.


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ShanShan Su opened Mimi Garden TX in December to offer a comforting taste of home and to share the authentic art of Chinese dumpling making in The Woodlands. Rooted in his heritage, the restaurant embraces culinary creativity with handcrafted dumpling and bao dishes, he said.


“In Chinese, ‘mimi’ means secret. Our restaurant is nestled in the woods, like a hidden garden waiting to be found; a peaceful retreat where comfort, flavor, and quiet joy come together; a secret worth sharing,” Su said.


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Texas House approves youth camp safety, flood relief bills following Central Texas flooding

What's happening: House lawmakers approved six bills Aug. 21, all of which were drafted in response to the July 4-5 floods that killed at least 137 people in Central and West Texas.

Lawmakers said the bills were designed to mitigate the damage of future floods by requiring youth summer camps to implement approved disaster plans, establishing licensing requirements for local emergency managers and facilitating the development of a statewide emergency communications plan.

What they're saying: “We have a chance now to right these wrongs, to say ‘Never again,’” Rep. Drew Darby, R-San Angelo, said on the House floor.

Also of note: The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country announced the organization will invest $40 million into a housing fund for victims of the July 4 flooding.

At an Aug. 21 press conference in Kerrville, Gov. Greg Abbott said the nonprofit’s housing fund will help affected Texans receive new housing within months.

 

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