Eater Houston

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Combining featured menu items from Uchi and Uchiko in Austin, the Houston outpost of this critically acclaimed restaurant has steadily maintained its rank as one of Montrose’s most innovative Japanese dining hotspots. Make a reservation and shell out for the signature Omakase ten-course tasting menu, priced around $150 per person, and let these top-notch sushi chefs guide dinner.

What began as a fast-casual stall in the Post Market food hall has now evolved into a formidable, full-service, Michelin Gourmand restaurant bursting with energy. The Black diaspora’s style, music, and slang have shaped the world’s culture for generations, and its food, especially soul and Creole, helped shape Americana. Yet African cuisines, the foundation of so much of it, rarely receive the same reverence as other global cuisines.

The second Michelin Texas guide ceremony took place Tuesday, October 28, at the Wortham Theater Center. No new Houston restaurants received a star this year, but ChòpnBlọk, Annam, da Gama Canteen, Maximo, and Papalo Taqueria took home Bib Gourmands — recognition of great food at great prices. That Houston didn’t receive a new star is a little bittersweet.

The East Downtown neighborhood bistro takes its name from Mad Max’s Fat Nancy’s Café and Houston’s “Hustle Town” nickname. Those pop-culture bona fides are woven right into its DNA. Nancy’s Hustle is cool and unpretentious with a menu unafraid of a little experimentation. As a winner of Eater Houston’s Restaurant of the Year in 2018, this place has proven its staying power — home to one of the entire Lone Star state’s most essential dishes. The burger ($18) is a permanent fixture for good reason.

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Houston’s favorite son Bun B and ChòpnBlọk chef-owner Ope Amosu first met at Rice University. Bun B taught “Religion and Hip Hop Culture,” and Amosu took his class while earning his MBA. Now they’re reuniting for a two-part collaboration between Bun B’s Trill Burgers and Amosu’s West African restaurant, ChòpnBlọk — recently named one of America’s 50 Best Restaurants by the New York Times.

Levi Goode, the chef and restaurateur behind Houston’s Goode Co. hospitality group, where he has overseen a melange of restaurants, including Goode Co. Barbecue and Goode Co. Kitchen & Cantina, has been traveling to Mexico for more than 15 years. What started as a curiosity about tequila grew into a deeper exploration of agave spirits across Jalisco and beyond. Those trips eventually led to the opening of Bar Buena this summer.

Fresh off announcing his U.S. Senate run on September 9, State Rep. James Talarico shared a strong opinion when he ran into Erika Harrison, the blogger who runs the Black Girls Who Brunch Instagram account.

Does it ever feel like fall in Houston? No. Not much. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have a stable of great bars and restaurants to look forward to during slightly less harsh summer. From a few extremely hype spots that were also on our summer list to a jazz club in a historic theatre to the newest bar from a Houston cocktail scene architect, these are the spots we’re most excited about visiting this fall.