Houston, the country's fourth largest, sprawls and sprawls over 640 square miles. An automobile is a necessity here as much as in any other metropolis. Plus, it is notoriously not encumbered by zoning. So, it might be odd to know that it is home one of the country’s very best nexuses of interesting and high-quality restaurants – and certainly the best in the state and the entire South – occurs along a stretch of road that’s a shade over a mile-long not too far from its downtown. As growth has occurred along the edges of the metro area, an increasing concentration of high-quality restaurants and bars has also taken place in the last couple of decades or so in the area between downtown west to the 610 Loop, the innermost of city’s three concentric roadways. This part of lower Westheimer, the heart of the Montrose neighborhood, is the best example of this trend, and it is better than ever for dining and wine.
This an update to an article I first penned in 2012 – when the area might have reached a critical mass following the opening of Underbelly – and for a regional e-zine a couple of years later. And to also note, I’m a homer for Houston, so I am very confident about the claim about this dining superiority versus the other cities, definitely those in Texas, and didn’t dig too deeply about Atlanta, Charlestown and elsewhere points due east or west to the rest of the Sunbelt. Though I have really enjoyed a number of spots in the Warehouse District in New Orleans, especially from Donald Link, over the years, to be sure. And that’s not quite a row, either.
Houston. Westheimer is one of the city’s main thoroughfares, and one that runs twenty miles to the west. Soon after its humble, if increasingly nicer beginnings, when Elgin turns, and turns into Westheimer via a name change less than a mile southwest of downtown, this narrow strip of roadway is where many of the city’s best restaurants call home. Attention from prominent national publications and awards and nominations from the James Beard Foundation have abounded on this part of the thoroughfare for a while.
Traveling west from Westheimer’s start at Bagby, the very first restaurant is a not-yet open Nigerian one, an example of Houston’s growing dining diversity in which west African restaurants are becoming more widely seen. The first restaurant of note, is Maderas, tucked into the edge of a strip center. Serving well-done takes on “Fresh Modern Mexican Fare” in a fairly attractive setting, it offers what might very well be Houston’s prettiest enchiladas. A couple of blocks down across the street is another modern Mexican bar and restaurant, Xolo, which opened in early 2026. Directly across from it, is Soto, one of the city’s best sushi stops and the first of several successful Austin transplants found on this row of restaurants. Sporting a gorgeous dark interior and an occasional Lamborghini in its small parking lot, this offers an approachable, well-executed, well-sourced take on the popular Tokyo-style sushi occasionally spiked with some regional favorites like jalapeño, avocado, and even tacos of a sort. Traversing just past the club Numbers, a part of Montrose’s history, there is a two-story outpost of El Tiempo at Taft. Maybe showing a bit of strain from expansion, it remains one of the best for Tex-Mex, with frozen margaritas tough to miss.
A couple of blocks further down, in the old wood-framed house that was the exemplary Dolce Vita for fifteen-plus years, is Osaka, a reliable visit for sushi that has been well-regarded for its comparative value. It began nearly across the street in the early 2000s. Directly across the street is the stylish and hip 100-seat standalone West African ChòpnBlọk that drew a rave review in The New York Times in December 2025, which cited its “welcome jolt of flavor, energy and joy.” In the next-door strip center on the south side of Westheimer, easily the most compelling of its seven restaurants, is the tiny La Sicilia. Offering lush Sicilian pastries and savory focaccias, it was started in 2018 by a native of southern Sicily. Directly across the street in a setting purpose-built for Aqui the previous decade is the eclectic Traveler’s Table with its globe-spanning dishes that won televised attention from Guy Fieri. The next block, just as Westheimer begins to twist slightly right as you continue west, is a small plate place from local Italian restaurant star Marco Wiles, Poscol. Named after the main thoroughfare in his hometown of Udine in northeastern Italy, this serves pastas, flatbreads, salumi, and cheeses, mostly from the provinces well north of Rome. Not incidentally, it was named in recent years the best cantina, or Italian wine program, in Houston by the Italian publication Gambero Rosso.
Not too many steps from Poscol is the oft-bustling Katz’s, housed in a handsome brick building, a present-day rendition of New York deli, one that never closes, and a reminder of my not-always-sober student days in Austin. Next door is the multi-use, multi-storied Montrose Collective housing a couple of interesting dining or wining options, and adorned by signage from everyone’s favorite concert monopoly, Live Nation. At the corner, with a nod to the pedestrian-friendly aspect of this very small section of the area is Fiora's Bottle Shop with a café-like setting and tables for the afternoon shade. It can be a nice place to enjoy a glass of wine from an idiosyncratic short list or a spritz or vermouth and also has small retail selection of mostly European wines. Its close neighbor Okto is an inviting stop for a drink and small plate from a short menu that is well-suited to noshing and sharing from a restaurant group with a couple of successful local concepts. Its dishes are inspired mostly by the Levant, Greece, North Africa; the usually meaningless Mediterranean description actually fits here.
Across the side street is yet another restaurant, like Katz’s and Soto, whose roots, improbably, lie in Austin. Serving an inspired take on modern Japanese food and known for its sushi and sashimi preparations, Uchi is a version of the most acclaimed restaurant in Austin that won chef Tyson Cole a James Beard Award and became the start of his restaurant empire. It quickly became part of the restaurant firmament in Houston soon after opening in early 2012, and remains a top destination for sushi and seafood. Around the corner, at the busy intersection of Westheimer and Montrose, is Aladdin, an inviting and welcoming oasis of very well-prepared and appropriately clean-tasting Lebanese food served cafeteria-style amidst the car and even foot traffic, which offers of the best dining values to be found in the Houston area.
Crossing west on Montrose is the last of the collection of establishments that once involved star chef Chris Shepherd, Blacksmith. This occupies a squat brick building and appeared in numerous lists of top coffee shops in the nation. In addition to its roasting and brewing capabilities, its savory fare, like Vietnamese steak and eggs, help make it popular brunch stop, too. Travel + Leisure included it as one of its fifteen “Best Breakfast Restaurants in the U.S” some years ago, and it also earned glowing mention in Condé Nast Traveler. Across the street to the west, is a steakhouse with a Rat Pack vibe from a Dallas chain that sits in the space where Shepherd earned national acclaim with the groundbreaking Underbelly. Directly across Westheimer as it turns a little left, is the building that once housed the Tower Theater – and where I once saw the ‘Mats give an excellent performance; they were far more sober than in previous Houston gigs. Now, it is back to music as a neat jazz club, Doc’s, an import from San Antonio. Its next door neighbor is one of the several noted Mala Sichuan restaurants, popular with fans of spicy Chinese fare both from here and China.
Walking five minutes west and back across Westheimer, next to a longtime bar, is The Montrose Grocer, a quite quaint and scruffily charming wine bar and bottle shop. Opened in late 2025, it sports a very well-edited and nicely priced selection of mostly Italian and French wines along with an enlightened range of vintage vinyl that includes Fela Kuti and Bowie. A few hundred feet away, also on the north side of Westheimer, Anvil, is almost popular as it is proficient. This was Houston’s first bar dedicated to artisanal cocktails. It might be impossible here to order a cocktail that is not terrific, and there are always over 100 on its ever-evolving list. Just around the corner, as Westheimer bends to the right again, sits Da Marco and the luxury vehicles that crowd its small parking lot, Marco Wiles’ white-tableclothed temple to Italian gastronomy. It’s long been very adept at replicating top trattorie and ristoranti preparations mostly from the northern regions of Italy like the classic Venetian take on calf’s liver and onions. Celebrating its quarter-century in business last year, it was once named among the top 30 restaurants in the country by Gourmet and would top the Zagat ratings while those were around. The casual, inviting counter-service Ramen Tatsu-Ya, yet another Austin reproduction, is across the small street north of Da Marco, about 20 yards and visible from Westheimer. It is possibly the top ramen restaurant in Houston.
About a block west, at Mandell, is the city’s first serious Mexican restaurant, and one of its most accolated, upscale Hugo’s that opened in 2002. It serves modern preparations on a tempting menu that takes inspiration from throughout Mexico. What is on the plate is serious, but Hugo’s can be fun and loud, especially during the weekend brunches. Led by James Beard Award-winning chef Hugo Ortega, it is now just one of five of excellent Mexican restaurants here from him, which includes, Xochi and Zaranda downtown and Caracol and Urbe in the Galleria area.
Next is the quartet of dining and wine establishments from Goodnight Hospitality, clustered in a couple of buildings. The first is two-storied that faces Westheimer across a few parking spaces and houses three of the concepts. Its culinary and wine leads are chef Felipe Riccio and Master Sommelier June Rodil, both of whom have earned tremendous amount of critical praise. The initial outpost, going west, is Montrose Cheese & Wine, a pretty spot with a small array of wines by the glass, but interesting, buttressed by a splendid wine shop. And there are the glorious cheeses, too. Rosie Cannonball, next door, is essentially an Italian restaurant with a more than a few nods to the Iberian peninsula on the short menu. There are a few very well-crafted, if quite precious, fresh pasta preparations in the Emilian tradition, pizzas, plus breads, and greens and other vegetables, and several proteins including the requisite steak. The crowd-pleasing dishes and stylish space have made it an attractive stop for the ladies who lunch and a busy spot at night. The wine list is expansive and mainly Old World, as throughout these four properties. March is the best of breed, and most ambitious of pricey set-menu-only restaurants that has opened in Houston in recent years, with a Michelin star to show for it. Staffed by a very capable and broadly experienced team led by Riccio, its creations from a menu changing twice a year are inspired by top restaurants around the Mediterranean. It’s only dinner here in six- and nine-course meals that begins with snacks of the fanciest kinds and creative cocktails in the Lounge. That can be a cool stop even when the few hours and few hundred dollars for a meal at March is not in the cards. The newest is the upscale Marigold Club that opened in 2024. It references London’s Mayfair on the menu and a name that might evoke a gentry-rich men’s club there, but this is might be best described as American with some French touches, or mid-century wealthy American updated for present-day Houston; intelligently and even slyly updated. Though possibly stuffy on first glance, it can be fun, when noticing the wall treatments of jubilant well-to-do diners of possibly Houston today and then the sundae cart on the menu that prowls the dining room. Its Golden Hour, from 5:00 to 6:00 six days a week, that is highlighted by $10 expertly crafted martinis and terrific service, is worth a special trip.
Last among the notables along this stretch of Westheimer is across Dunlavy, Common Bond. A serious bakery, both boulangerie and pâtisserie in the French tradition, it initially, publicly aired aspirations to be the best bakery in the country. Its founding baker, Roy Shvartzapel, and opening team did raise the bar for baked goods in Houston beginning in 2014 and the operation multiplied. With amazing croissants, terrific baguettes and delicious breads, and French sweets in a variety of renditions, it’s still a nice, popular little restaurant and coffee shop, too. This dynamic 1.1-mile stretch of asphalt. Though over two dozen establishments are highlighted, there are others worthy of a visit here, and there are more on the way. It and Houston’s dining scene, keep getting better and better, and more interesting. And, with a concentration of spots, people can actually be something that is still rare here and visit more than one place on an evening without a car: be a pedestrian.
The list of highlights along the best restaurant row in Houston, Texas, the South, and the Sunbelt:
Maderas – 120 Westheimer – Mexican
Xolo – 223 Westheimer – Mexican
Soto – 224 Westheimer – Sushi
El Tiempo – 333 Westheimer – Tex-Mex
Osaka – 500 Westheimer – Sushi
ChòpnBlọk – 507 Westheimer – West African
La Sicilia – 515 Westheimer – Bakery
Traveler’s Table – 520 Westheimer – Eclectic
Poscol – 608 Westheimer – Italian
Katz’s – 615 Westheimer – Deli
Fiora’s Bottle Shop – 888 Westheimer – Wine Bar / Wine Shop
Okto – 888 Westheimer – Middle Eastern
Uchi – 904 Westheimer – Sushi
Aladdin – 912 Westheimer – Middle Eastern
Blacksmith – 1018 Westheimer – Coffee Shop
Doc’s – 1201 Westheimer – Jazz Club
Mala Sichuan – 1201 Westheimer – Sichuan
The Montrose Grocer – 1340 Westheimer – Wine Bar / Wine Shop
Anvil – 1424 Westheimer – Cocktail Bar
Da Marco – 1520 Westheimer – Italian
Ramen Tatsu-Ya – 1722 California (twenty yards north of Westheimer) – Ramen
Hugo’s – 1600 Westheimer – Mexican
Montrose Cheese & Wine – 1618 Westheimer – Wine Bar / Wine Shop
Rose Cannonball – 1620 Westheimer – Italian / Spanish
March and The Lounge – 1624 Westheimer – European
The Marigold Club – 2531 Kuster (steps from Westheimer) – American
Common Bond – 1706 Westheimer – Bakery
If interested in the recent history of this strip, I have compiled lists from several times in the past fifteen years and the collection of notable chefs heading kitchens here over the years.
A risotto dish at Poscol
This an update to an article I first penned in 2012 – when the area might have reached a critical mass following the opening of Underbelly – and for a regional e-zine a couple of years later. And to also note, I’m a homer for Houston, so I am very confident about the claim about this dining superiority versus the other cities, definitely those in Texas, and didn’t dig too deeply about Atlanta, Charlestown and elsewhere points due east or west to the rest of the Sunbelt. Though I have really enjoyed a number of spots in the Warehouse District in New Orleans, especially from Donald Link, over the years, to be sure. And that’s not quite a row, either.
Houston. Westheimer is one of the city’s main thoroughfares, and one that runs twenty miles to the west. Soon after its humble, if increasingly nicer beginnings, when Elgin turns, and turns into Westheimer via a name change less than a mile southwest of downtown, this narrow strip of roadway is where many of the city’s best restaurants call home. Attention from prominent national publications and awards and nominations from the James Beard Foundation have abounded on this part of the thoroughfare for a while.
Traveling west from Westheimer’s start at Bagby, the very first restaurant is a not-yet open Nigerian one, an example of Houston’s growing dining diversity in which west African restaurants are becoming more widely seen. The first restaurant of note, is Maderas, tucked into the edge of a strip center. Serving well-done takes on “Fresh Modern Mexican Fare” in a fairly attractive setting, it offers what might very well be Houston’s prettiest enchiladas. A couple of blocks down across the street is another modern Mexican bar and restaurant, Xolo, which opened in early 2026. Directly across from it, is Soto, one of the city’s best sushi stops and the first of several successful Austin transplants found on this row of restaurants. Sporting a gorgeous dark interior and an occasional Lamborghini in its small parking lot, this offers an approachable, well-executed, well-sourced take on the popular Tokyo-style sushi occasionally spiked with some regional favorites like jalapeño, avocado, and even tacos of a sort. Traversing just past the club Numbers, a part of Montrose’s history, there is a two-story outpost of El Tiempo at Taft. Maybe showing a bit of strain from expansion, it remains one of the best for Tex-Mex, with frozen margaritas tough to miss.
A couple of blocks further down, in the old wood-framed house that was the exemplary Dolce Vita for fifteen-plus years, is Osaka, a reliable visit for sushi that has been well-regarded for its comparative value. It began nearly across the street in the early 2000s. Directly across the street is the stylish and hip 100-seat standalone West African ChòpnBlọk that drew a rave review in The New York Times in December 2025, which cited its “welcome jolt of flavor, energy and joy.” In the next-door strip center on the south side of Westheimer, easily the most compelling of its seven restaurants, is the tiny La Sicilia. Offering lush Sicilian pastries and savory focaccias, it was started in 2018 by a native of southern Sicily. Directly across the street in a setting purpose-built for Aqui the previous decade is the eclectic Traveler’s Table with its globe-spanning dishes that won televised attention from Guy Fieri. The next block, just as Westheimer begins to twist slightly right as you continue west, is a small plate place from local Italian restaurant star Marco Wiles, Poscol. Named after the main thoroughfare in his hometown of Udine in northeastern Italy, this serves pastas, flatbreads, salumi, and cheeses, mostly from the provinces well north of Rome. Not incidentally, it was named in recent years the best cantina, or Italian wine program, in Houston by the Italian publication Gambero Rosso.
Not too many steps from Poscol is the oft-bustling Katz’s, housed in a handsome brick building, a present-day rendition of New York deli, one that never closes, and a reminder of my not-always-sober student days in Austin. Next door is the multi-use, multi-storied Montrose Collective housing a couple of interesting dining or wining options, and adorned by signage from everyone’s favorite concert monopoly, Live Nation. At the corner, with a nod to the pedestrian-friendly aspect of this very small section of the area is Fiora's Bottle Shop with a café-like setting and tables for the afternoon shade. It can be a nice place to enjoy a glass of wine from an idiosyncratic short list or a spritz or vermouth and also has small retail selection of mostly European wines. Its close neighbor Okto is an inviting stop for a drink and small plate from a short menu that is well-suited to noshing and sharing from a restaurant group with a couple of successful local concepts. Its dishes are inspired mostly by the Levant, Greece, North Africa; the usually meaningless Mediterranean description actually fits here.
Across the side street is yet another restaurant, like Katz’s and Soto, whose roots, improbably, lie in Austin. Serving an inspired take on modern Japanese food and known for its sushi and sashimi preparations, Uchi is a version of the most acclaimed restaurant in Austin that won chef Tyson Cole a James Beard Award and became the start of his restaurant empire. It quickly became part of the restaurant firmament in Houston soon after opening in early 2012, and remains a top destination for sushi and seafood. Around the corner, at the busy intersection of Westheimer and Montrose, is Aladdin, an inviting and welcoming oasis of very well-prepared and appropriately clean-tasting Lebanese food served cafeteria-style amidst the car and even foot traffic, which offers of the best dining values to be found in the Houston area.
Crossing west on Montrose is the last of the collection of establishments that once involved star chef Chris Shepherd, Blacksmith. This occupies a squat brick building and appeared in numerous lists of top coffee shops in the nation. In addition to its roasting and brewing capabilities, its savory fare, like Vietnamese steak and eggs, help make it popular brunch stop, too. Travel + Leisure included it as one of its fifteen “Best Breakfast Restaurants in the U.S” some years ago, and it also earned glowing mention in Condé Nast Traveler. Across the street to the west, is a steakhouse with a Rat Pack vibe from a Dallas chain that sits in the space where Shepherd earned national acclaim with the groundbreaking Underbelly. Directly across Westheimer as it turns a little left, is the building that once housed the Tower Theater – and where I once saw the ‘Mats give an excellent performance; they were far more sober than in previous Houston gigs. Now, it is back to music as a neat jazz club, Doc’s, an import from San Antonio. Its next door neighbor is one of the several noted Mala Sichuan restaurants, popular with fans of spicy Chinese fare both from here and China.
Walking five minutes west and back across Westheimer, next to a longtime bar, is The Montrose Grocer, a quite quaint and scruffily charming wine bar and bottle shop. Opened in late 2025, it sports a very well-edited and nicely priced selection of mostly Italian and French wines along with an enlightened range of vintage vinyl that includes Fela Kuti and Bowie. A few hundred feet away, also on the north side of Westheimer, Anvil, is almost popular as it is proficient. This was Houston’s first bar dedicated to artisanal cocktails. It might be impossible here to order a cocktail that is not terrific, and there are always over 100 on its ever-evolving list. Just around the corner, as Westheimer bends to the right again, sits Da Marco and the luxury vehicles that crowd its small parking lot, Marco Wiles’ white-tableclothed temple to Italian gastronomy. It’s long been very adept at replicating top trattorie and ristoranti preparations mostly from the northern regions of Italy like the classic Venetian take on calf’s liver and onions. Celebrating its quarter-century in business last year, it was once named among the top 30 restaurants in the country by Gourmet and would top the Zagat ratings while those were around. The casual, inviting counter-service Ramen Tatsu-Ya, yet another Austin reproduction, is across the small street north of Da Marco, about 20 yards and visible from Westheimer. It is possibly the top ramen restaurant in Houston.
About a block west, at Mandell, is the city’s first serious Mexican restaurant, and one of its most accolated, upscale Hugo’s that opened in 2002. It serves modern preparations on a tempting menu that takes inspiration from throughout Mexico. What is on the plate is serious, but Hugo’s can be fun and loud, especially during the weekend brunches. Led by James Beard Award-winning chef Hugo Ortega, it is now just one of five of excellent Mexican restaurants here from him, which includes, Xochi and Zaranda downtown and Caracol and Urbe in the Galleria area.
Next is the quartet of dining and wine establishments from Goodnight Hospitality, clustered in a couple of buildings. The first is two-storied that faces Westheimer across a few parking spaces and houses three of the concepts. Its culinary and wine leads are chef Felipe Riccio and Master Sommelier June Rodil, both of whom have earned tremendous amount of critical praise. The initial outpost, going west, is Montrose Cheese & Wine, a pretty spot with a small array of wines by the glass, but interesting, buttressed by a splendid wine shop. And there are the glorious cheeses, too. Rosie Cannonball, next door, is essentially an Italian restaurant with a more than a few nods to the Iberian peninsula on the short menu. There are a few very well-crafted, if quite precious, fresh pasta preparations in the Emilian tradition, pizzas, plus breads, and greens and other vegetables, and several proteins including the requisite steak. The crowd-pleasing dishes and stylish space have made it an attractive stop for the ladies who lunch and a busy spot at night. The wine list is expansive and mainly Old World, as throughout these four properties. March is the best of breed, and most ambitious of pricey set-menu-only restaurants that has opened in Houston in recent years, with a Michelin star to show for it. Staffed by a very capable and broadly experienced team led by Riccio, its creations from a menu changing twice a year are inspired by top restaurants around the Mediterranean. It’s only dinner here in six- and nine-course meals that begins with snacks of the fanciest kinds and creative cocktails in the Lounge. That can be a cool stop even when the few hours and few hundred dollars for a meal at March is not in the cards. The newest is the upscale Marigold Club that opened in 2024. It references London’s Mayfair on the menu and a name that might evoke a gentry-rich men’s club there, but this is might be best described as American with some French touches, or mid-century wealthy American updated for present-day Houston; intelligently and even slyly updated. Though possibly stuffy on first glance, it can be fun, when noticing the wall treatments of jubilant well-to-do diners of possibly Houston today and then the sundae cart on the menu that prowls the dining room. Its Golden Hour, from 5:00 to 6:00 six days a week, that is highlighted by $10 expertly crafted martinis and terrific service, is worth a special trip.
Last among the notables along this stretch of Westheimer is across Dunlavy, Common Bond. A serious bakery, both boulangerie and pâtisserie in the French tradition, it initially, publicly aired aspirations to be the best bakery in the country. Its founding baker, Roy Shvartzapel, and opening team did raise the bar for baked goods in Houston beginning in 2014 and the operation multiplied. With amazing croissants, terrific baguettes and delicious breads, and French sweets in a variety of renditions, it’s still a nice, popular little restaurant and coffee shop, too. This dynamic 1.1-mile stretch of asphalt. Though over two dozen establishments are highlighted, there are others worthy of a visit here, and there are more on the way. It and Houston’s dining scene, keep getting better and better, and more interesting. And, with a concentration of spots, people can actually be something that is still rare here and visit more than one place on an evening without a car: be a pedestrian.
The list of highlights along the best restaurant row in Houston, Texas, the South, and the Sunbelt:
Maderas – 120 Westheimer – Mexican
Xolo – 223 Westheimer – Mexican
Soto – 224 Westheimer – Sushi
El Tiempo – 333 Westheimer – Tex-Mex
Osaka – 500 Westheimer – Sushi
ChòpnBlọk – 507 Westheimer – West African
La Sicilia – 515 Westheimer – Bakery
Traveler’s Table – 520 Westheimer – Eclectic
Poscol – 608 Westheimer – Italian
Katz’s – 615 Westheimer – Deli
Fiora’s Bottle Shop – 888 Westheimer – Wine Bar / Wine Shop
Okto – 888 Westheimer – Middle Eastern
Uchi – 904 Westheimer – Sushi
Aladdin – 912 Westheimer – Middle Eastern
Blacksmith – 1018 Westheimer – Coffee Shop
Doc’s – 1201 Westheimer – Jazz Club
Mala Sichuan – 1201 Westheimer – Sichuan
The Montrose Grocer – 1340 Westheimer – Wine Bar / Wine Shop
Anvil – 1424 Westheimer – Cocktail Bar
Da Marco – 1520 Westheimer – Italian
Ramen Tatsu-Ya – 1722 California (twenty yards north of Westheimer) – Ramen
Hugo’s – 1600 Westheimer – Mexican
Montrose Cheese & Wine – 1618 Westheimer – Wine Bar / Wine Shop
Rose Cannonball – 1620 Westheimer – Italian / Spanish
March and The Lounge – 1624 Westheimer – European
The Marigold Club – 2531 Kuster (steps from Westheimer) – American
Common Bond – 1706 Westheimer – Bakery
If interested in the recent history of this strip, I have compiled lists from several times in the past fifteen years and the collection of notable chefs heading kitchens here over the years.
A risotto dish at Poscol
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