Well, well, well… Here we are.
Please peruse the list and let the roasting begin!
And just as a refresher…
I’ll kick off the roasting and ask… Why the heck is Canje in Austin snubbed without even a recommendation?
Gemma, Lucia and Nonna in Dallas definitely deserved their Bib Gourmand.
Notable surprise that Local is not even listed.
I work in the industry in Houston, though not any type of spot that would attract Michelin attention. Some things I think they got right and some I think they really didn’t… I wasn’t surprised by any of the stars here in Houston except Corkscrew BBQ, even if some of the recipients aren’t places that excite me.
The Bibs were very questionable at times… Kau Ba, excluding even the fact it closed before the ceremony, had gone so far downhill in recent years I cannot fathom how it got any form of nod. The Alief / Bellaire (Asia-town) area broadly was seriously snubbed on the Bib front. There were also several places on the BG list that I, personally, feel stretched the definition of reasonably priced that the BG supposedly represents to such an extreme, that that list itself became almost a consolation prize for restaurants that reached for the stars and fell short.
Street to Kitchen deserved their BG. I’d love to see them focus in a bit more and mature as an operation, at which point I think they’re easily star worthy from a culinary perspective. I’ll also die on the hill that Theodore Rex deserved a star, but at least only getting a BG it won’t be thaaaaat much harder for me to get a decent reservation. The food is simple, yet inventive and stunningly consistent in my experience.
Coltivare being snubbed entirely is utterly preposterous. I figured they were a guaranteed BG and a plausible long shot for a star.
Finally, it was a relief to me to not see a deluge of sushi spots on the list. It seems like every month there is a new hyped omakase place and I’ve never found any of them particularly compelling, certainly not to the standard of starred spots in New York or the west coast. It was validating to have my personal opinion that Houston isn’t a sushi-town borne out by the guide.
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