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Olympic icon Simone Biles is getting into the restaurant business.
Per Eric Sandler According to CultureMap Houston, Biles is set to open the Taste of Gold restaurant in the first quarter of 2025.
The restaurant will be located inside George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Biles’ hometown of Houston. She has partnered with The Playmakers Group to help create the restaurant.
“I am so excited to partner with The Playmakers Group and their dedicated team to help open a new restaurant at my hometown airport,” Biles said in a statement via Sandler. “I am a foodie at heart, and our hope with Taste of Gold is to provide an elegant dining experience that features award-winning, signature menu items along with some of my favorite flavors for our guests.”
Sandler said the Playmakers Group runs athlete-themed restaurants at airports, including One Which was built at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport in partnership with Dallas Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki, and will open in August 2023.
While details about the menu options aren’t yet available, the name is a fitting nod to the most decorated United States gymnast in Olympic history.
Biles won four medals at the Paris Games this summer – three gold, one silver. She has won a total of 11 Olympic medals, including seven gold medals, in her illustrious career. The 27-year-old Biles is two gold medals away from winning the title. Tying Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union holds the record for most medals won by a female gymnast in Olympic history.
If Biles qualifies for the U.S. team in 2028, she would become the second-oldest woman to compete for the team in history at age 31. Mary Margaret Housley was 35 at the 1952 Olympics.