Bobby Heugel and Justin Yu fancy up posh new Galveston boutique lodge

Bobby Heugel and Justin Yu have revealed the details about their plans for the restaurant at Galveston’s Resort Lucine, the boutique lodge opening on the web page of the historic Treasure Isle Motel house at the intersection of 10th Road and Seawall Boulevard. Identified as The Extravagant, it will be the 1st lodge job for the duo, whose Extensive Fare hospitality group also operates two institutions in The Heights: patio bar Improved Luck Tomorrow and European-influenced cafe Squable.

The duo also have substantial achievements on their possess. Heugel is the effectively-known founder of video game-shifting Montrose cocktail Anvil Bar along with institutions such as The Pastry War, Tongue-Reduce Sparrow, and freshly opened Refuge. Yu is the James Beard Award-profitable chef driving the acclaimed tasting menu Oxheart and its successor Theodore Rex.

Tasked by Hotel Lucine companion and Galveston native Keath Jacoby with generating a restaurant that’s equally attractive to island residents and visitors, The Fancy will offer what the duo defines as “American Great-ish Dining.” In a launch, the partners outline “American Fantastic-ish Eating” as staying grounded in fundamental French technique and locally-sourced ingredients. The “ish” is essential when dining close to the seashore in spite of the title, they figure out that The Fancy should not be as well fancy.

“The Fancy is certainly not a seafood restaurant, but it would be absurd to not use the remarkable Gulf of Mexico solutions that are actually staring us straight in the encounter,” Yu said in a statement. “The meals at The Fancy will experience driven by the greatest nearby deliver and Texas meats accessible, almost usually seasoned with the salt from the Gulf air.”

Open up for lunch and meal through the 7 days and brunch and evening meal on weekends, Yu’s menu will include things like seafood dishes these kinds of as shrimp cocktail “with way too quite a few sauces,” chilled 50 % lobster, and complete roasted Gulf flounder with a braised oxtail and mustard environmentally friendly sauce. Carnivores can look to meatballs that use a blend of pork and Texas beef and shareables these as pork stomach pot roast with roasted oysters. Yu, a observed lover of the Houston’s/Hillstone restaurant, has also set his spin on the common French dip sandwich.

“I hope it is food that is as craveable as it is creative, grounded in my European kitchen upbringing, but with a good deal of character,” Yu included. “There is going to be significantly to rejoice at the hotel, and I think the menu is really going to assist people enable loose.”

Also encouraging them let unfastened will be Heugel’s cocktail menu. As both equally Heugel and Yu program to be on-site daily for substantially of the hotel’s very first 12 months of operations — they are setting up to live together on the island, for every a release — The Fancy’s cocktail menu will be grounded in drinks they both appreciate, like Tongue-Cut’s signature Bobby’s Martini, together with an intensive wine list with plenty of by-the-glass choices.

“Frankly, Justin and I commit too much time drinking and taking in with each other. We both equally truly feel that cocktails are a great start out to the dining experience, but they need to be deferential to a fantastic wine list,” Heugel said. “We want our friends to depend on a wine list of shut to 100 picks that we both equally experience compliment The Fancy’s meals well. We believe there’s a actual chance in Galveston for a wine record that highlights more compact producers — both classical and organic in their techniques — in addition to selfishly stocking some of our own favorites.”

The Fancy is only a person part of Hotel Lucine’s foods and beverage offerings. Heugel and Yu will also run The Den, a foyer bar that will serve three meals day by day, a rooftop bar, and a pool. Taken collectively, it can be Comprehensive Fare’s most formidable challenge to day and one that has the opportunity to grow to be an vital addition to Galveston’s culinary scene.

“We’ve recognized for a even though that our up coming job would need to reassert our intention to obstacle our qualified accomplishments to this place,” Heugel explained. “We weren’t guaranteed solely how all those worries would emerge, but we passed on various opportunities until eventually we satisfied with Dave, Keath and Robert about Lodge Lucine. Absolutely everyone on this job has a large amount on the line, and we are likely to make absolutely sure our contributions are just as unique as what our associates are bringing to the desk.”

The 61-area assets will be centered around its pool and The Den. Austin-dependent structure organization Kartwheel Studio’s ideas call for preserving the building’s mid century come to feel with details these types of as white brick, bleached white oak, and indigenous greenery.