Issue 03
Published May 22, 2026 · Bilingual edition
A pastry chef who came home to Texas through Paris. A husband-and-wife team who arrived with a plumbing license and the patience to wait for the phone to ring. A Cuban-born operator and his Venezuelan-born wife who opened a restaurant on Egypt Lane in 2006 — and the son who grew up running its floor. Three arrivals, the same question — what does a family plant once it picks a place on purpose?
Business · Founders of Magnolia
Ali's Long Way Home
A pastry chef born in Iowa, raised on three continents, and trained for six years in the kitchens of the best French pastry chefs in Paris — landed in February in The Woodlands. Currently the executive pastry chef at one of Houston's most exclusive hotels, and quietly building his own brand for the FM 1488 corridor. The next profile in the Founders of Magnolia series.
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Rudy and Amanda's Texas Bet
A husband-and-wife team came to Texas looking for something specific. They didn't just bring boxes. They brought a plumbing business, and they built it around the part of the trade most operators don't want to talk about — the estimate. The third profile in the Founders of Magnolia series.
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Twenty Years at Eden
Ulises Larramendi left Cuba as a child, learned the restaurant trade in the kitchens of Houston, ran a steakhouse in Puerto Rico, and came home to open Eden Café with his wife Maria in October 2006. Twenty Octobers later, with their son Eric on the floor and the room reborn as Eden Table, the Larramendi family is still feeding the FM 1488 corridor the way they fed it on day one. The fourth profile in the Founders of Magnolia series.
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The summer civic calendar, an MUD rate notice worth reading, and a working list of the Saturday markets Magnolia residents actually go to.
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