Mike Riccetti
  • The best of Houston dining
    • Guinness pours
    • Italian
    • Steakhouses - local
    • Wine Bars
  • The margherita pizza project
  • The martini project
  • Musings on Houston Dining
    • The top 10 new restaurants of 2018
    • The top 10 new restaurants of 2017
    • The top 10 new restaurants of 2016
    • The 10 best Inner Loop values
    • Dining recommendations for visitors to Houston
  • Italian restaurant history
  • Italian & Italian-American
  • Entertaining tips
    • Booze basics
    • Styles of Cheeses
    • Handling Those Disruptive Guests
  • Wine
  • Beer
  • Cocktails and Spirits
  • Miscellaneous
  • Blog
  • The best of Houston dining
    • Guinness pours
    • Italian
    • Steakhouses - local
    • Wine Bars
  • The margherita pizza project
  • The martini project
  • Musings on Houston Dining
    • The top 10 new restaurants of 2018
    • The top 10 new restaurants of 2017
    • The top 10 new restaurants of 2016
    • The 10 best Inner Loop values
    • Dining recommendations for visitors to Houston
  • Italian restaurant history
  • Italian & Italian-American
  • Entertaining tips
    • Booze basics
    • Styles of Cheeses
    • Handling Those Disruptive Guests
  • Wine
  • Beer
  • Cocktails and Spirits
  • Miscellaneous
  • Blog
Mike Riccetti

THE Best of Houston Dining

An enjoyable journey

Lists of the best

This an attempt to recommend the best restaurants in the Houston area in a number of categories.   These lists might be a top ten, but sometimes there might be more or fewer places to recommend for a theme.  These should be fun, as most 'best of' lists are and, hopefully, even useful, unlike most of them.  A terrific amount of eating and drinking has been involved in their creation; some perspective: the author has been the local editor for Zagat since 2007 and the first edition of his Houston Dining on the Cheap guidebook was published in 2002.

Not much progress has been made with this; only four lists partially completed (the ones in red) but stay tuned.
  • The 50 Best Restaurants in Houston - 100 was just too ambitious for me....
  • ​Banh Mi
  • ​​Bakeries
  • Barbecue
  • Best Values
  • ​Chicken Fried Steak
  • Chinese
  • Downtown Dining
  • ​Fried Chicken
  • French
  • Galleria Area Dining
  • Guinness
  • Hamburger Joints
  • Houston-centric
  • Indian / Pakistani
  • Italian / Italian-American
  • Kolaches
  • Middle Eastern
  • Mexican
  • Pho
  • Pizza
  • Raw Bars
  • Sandwiches
  • See / Be Seen
  • Seafood
  • Splurge Worthy
  • Steakhouses
  • Steaks at Non-Steakhouses
  • Sushi
  • Tex-Mex
  • To Take a Visitor
  • Thai
  • ​Trendy / Tough Tables
  • Vietnamese
  • Whisky / Whiskey
  • Wine Bars 
  • Wine Lists
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