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First Look: Traveler’s Cart Opens In Montrose This Week

Jenn Duncan
First Look: Traveler’s Cart Opens In Montrose This Week

SINCE OPENING IN 2019, it’s been hard to get a reservation at Traveler’s Table, the global-cuisine eatery on Westheimer. Now, a more accessible version of the popular resto — yet, still stylish and modern with environs designed by Gin Braverman — is opening this week on Montrose Boulevard at West Gray.

As with Table, the concept for Traveler’s Cart was born of husband-and-wife owners Matthew and Thy Mitchell’s international travels in which they ate street food at night markets and back-alley food carts. “Both of our lives have been greatly enriched by our travels, and those experiences have shown us how important food can be for learning about other cultures and for connecting with people all over the world,” says Matthew, who worked as a journalist before entering the food world.

“We have great respect for the people who we've met making this food, often in the humblest of circumstances,” he adds. “We truly want to celebrate them and their food traditions.”

Traveler’s Cart will offer an expansive menu served counter-service-style and a full-service bar with an inventive cocktail menu; the Da Jerk Shack Punch is a Jamaican rum punch with the spices of jerk seasoning, and the Bangkok 8 mimics Thai chili notes of Tom Yum soup. The food menu includes street snacks — think falafel bites and butter chicken samosas, and small plates like Thai fried chicken wings and pan-fried lamb dumplings. For mains, there’s the can’t-miss American roadside burger and the more adventurous Peri Peri chicken and Jamaican jerk pork ribs.

Traveler’s Cart opens Wednesday, October 23, and is open from 10am to 10pm from Sunday to Wednesday, and open 10an to midnight Thursday to Saturday.

Cocktails

Beef Rendang

Fried Chicken Muffuletta

Interiors by Gin Braverman

Head on shrimp

Thai Fried Chicken Wings

Tiger Shrimp Pad Thai

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