Cuvee’s Culinary Creations is a catering company and restaurant serving up southern soul food cooking to the greater Houston, Texas area. They booked a nice bit of PR for themselves when food influencers Patrick Blackwood and Nina Unrated (you’ll never guess, but it’s a stage name) reserved time and a booth last Saturday to film a segment for their Unrated EX Files YouTube page. The feast looked delectable – lamb chops and oysters and wings, oh my! – but the meal was not without controversy: host Patrick said he’s “not a guy that eats grits.” And you call yourself a food influencer, young man?? Meanwhile, he proceeded to fall in love with propose to and marry a cup of shrimp and grits. Oh, and the other big kerfuffle was the entire venture being upended by the SUV that crashed through the glass window into their table. Everyone is safe! The pair came out heavily scratched but with no major injuries. And through it all, the cameras rolled on.
“I remember the moment of impact vividly,” Unrated told Newsweek. “At first, I was in severe shock and extremely scared—I thought I was going to die.
“I felt wet everywhere, so I knew there was some bleeding, but I didn’t know the extent of my injuries until about five or 10 minutes later,” she said.
Emergency services, including the fire department and Houston police, responded swiftly, and the pair were rushed to the hospital.
A spokesperson for Harris County Texas Sheriff’s Office told Newsweek: “On Saturday, August 16, 2025, at approximately 4:41pm, Harris County Sheriff Deputies were dispatch to an automobile vs a building accident located at 2712 Eldridge Parkway, Houston, Texas at a business known as CuVee’s Culinary Creations.
“The female driver of the vehicle (Black SUV) advised that she thought she place the vehicle in park and upon releasing her foot off the brake, the vehicle rolled into the business, striking the building, and breaking the glass. There were two people inside the business one male and one female sitting inside in a booth that were injured and transported to a local area hospital.”
…“We both walked away without any major injuries—we’re so lucky to be alive,” Unrated said.
The pair believe their survival was no accident. “Our guardian angel—our dog Loyal, who passed away on November 20, 2024—protected us. I don’t know how or why I survived, but there has to be a reason and a purpose,” Unrated explained.
“Life is so precious, and this has reminded me to cherish every single moment,” she added.
The pair shared the full video of the review, and crash, to their YouTube page @UnratedEXFiles yesterday, where it’s since been viewed more than 100,000 times, as they said: “That SUV came out of nowhere, and all we were doing was enjoying a simple meal.”
In the caption, they relayed their horrifying ordeal, saying: “We were laughing, having a great time, and right as we tapped our sliders together in a “boom!” cheers moment, out of nowhere, this SUV came barreling through the glass wall at 35-40 mph.”
Thank dog everyone made it out as well as they did! And major aww! to Nina and Patrick crediting their dearly departed pooch for protecting them. I just marked the one year anniversary of My Girl’s passing, and as I recall how passionately she herself loved eating, I wouldn’t be surprised if her guardian angel work would be towards saving the food. (I say that fondly and with respect, not shade!) The full video is insane: 10 minutes of reviewing the food before they tap their salmon sliders in a toast and the SUV comes crashing in, and then Nina and Patrick take us through their hospital visit, the car service back to the restaurant so they can pick up their own car to go home (by which point Cuvee’s had already boarded up the broken window), the pair decompressing at home, and then returning to Cuvee’s in daylight… for brunch! Which is actually what the restaurant wants; apparently people have been reaching out wanting to make donations for the repairs, but chef/owner Ivory Watkins says they’d rather just have support in the form of diners coming to eat.
All in all, a very dramatic way to learn a priceless lesson: life is precious. Too precious to go out on salmon sliders!! That’s my takeaway, and before you judge consider this: they had a flight of three mac n cheeses (lobster, oxtail, and original) and only one of the three (lobster) had been tasted before impact! You never know what’s gonna happen, so eat the carbs first.
Here’s the video, queued up to the part right before the crash:
Photos are screenshots from YouTube and via Instagram
Glad everyone is ok!
That looks a lot faster than it wasn’t in park and rolled into the building. More like they hit the gas instead of the brake, which happens a lot more than we’d think.
If you roll, you don’t go over the curb. They are very lucky the driver hit the brake fast. Doesn’t look like the car actually went into the restaurant. All the injuries are from broken glass. The car didn’t hit them. Those huge SUVs are so dangerous, just from the weight.
That was my reaction! That car is not ‘rolling’.
My Uncle hit the gas instead of the brakes and wiped out his garage door, his children couldn’t get him to stop driving before, so this sealed the deal to put down his car keys.
@Kismet, you didn’t look at her videos on Instagram. They aren’t just food influencers. He PUTS the food in her mouth, and her throat is long. LOL.