Overview
- The restaurant group announced Monday that Traveler’s Cart will serve its final meals on Friday, July 31, and the Montrose location at 1401 Montrose Blvd. will close after service.
- Traveler’s Table, the sister restaurant at 520 Westheimer Rd., will remain open and the company said some employees will transfer there while leadership helps others find new jobs and asks local owners to contact director of operations Ryan Browne about hires.
- Investigators found the Mitchells and their two children dead at their River Oaks‑area home on May 4, and the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences later determined Matthew Mitchell’s death was a suicide and that Thy Mitchell and the children died by homicide.
- Thy Mitchell’s family filed a wrongful‑death lawsuit that alleges Matthew planned the killings, cites Ring‑recorded statements and claims more than $1 million was moved into accounts in his mother’s name, and asks the court to stop further transfers and install independent management of Traveler’s Table.
- The closure marks a local restaurant community reckoning with the May 4 deaths and could have concrete effects on staff livelihoods and on the future control and governance of the Traveler’s restaurants if the court restricts estate transfers or orders outside management.