The Pet Rally
Elm & Magnolia has partnered with Texas Litter Control to raise funds for the animals in our community. Join us for a family and pet friendly day of fun. Shop pet friendly vendors, attend petcare workshops, adopt a new family member, learn about pet resources in your community.
Elm & Magnolia
Maria's family's business growing up was the restaurant business. Maria is Greek and Joe is Italian. He started out working in a pizzeria at 14 years old and he has been in food-service, at many different levels since then. He was born into a typical food obsessed Italian family. They make their own wine, cheese, jarred tomatoes, pickled eggplant and more. It was inevitable that Joe would take the path that he did by working around food every day. Joe Graduated from The Culinary Institute of America, and began his career in New York city.
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Joe and Maria moved to Houston in February of 2012. After a long weekend visit in The Woodlands in January of 2012, they decided to make a move. Eight days later, Joe packed his car armed with his chef knives, coats and bare necessities looking forward to a 3 day journey to Texas. Maria joined Joe a month later with their dogs and a few belongings.
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Joe worked downtown as executive chef with the Mandola family on West Dallas Street, Up Restaurant in Highland Village and finally at Mo's "A Place for Steak" in The Galleria. Maria had been to Old Town Spring many times and had always brought visiting friends for an afternoon visit. Everyone would say, "this is the cutest town, you guys should do something here." And so they did! The Black Sheep Bistro was born.
Their new restaurant/event venue provides guests with thoughtfully prepared international cuisine in a relaxed atomosphere. Their Scratch kitchen provides guests with freshly prepared and creative dishes. Attentive and unobstrusive service makes for a casual dining experience.
Joe & Maria
Owners
Elm & Magnolia
Texas Litter Control
We are so excited to be partnering with Elm and Magnolia. It is a blessing to find fellow animal lovers in our community to advance our lifesaving work.
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Texas Litter Control is a much needed resource for our community. TLC runs 3 high quality, low cost spay/neuter and wellness clinics for cats and dogs. These services are open to the general public. We offer expanded veterinary services to income qualified families. Our shelter intervention program keeps fire victims and individuals faced with short term problems with their pets during times of crisis. TLC operates multiple cat adoption centers throughout Montgomery and Harris Counties. We are all about working together as a community. Our animal overpopulation problem will not be solved by one organization alone. For this reason, we host the United Pet Rescuers Conference annually to bring groups together.
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For more information about TLC's lifesaving programs, visit TexasLitterControl.org.
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Thank you all for your continued support!