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Eater
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Eater
Houston Restaurant Week Is Your Chance to Try These Award-Winning Spots
Despite its name, Houston Restaurant Week runs from August 1 to September 1, and this year's list of participating spots is extremely long. Some of the most award-winning restaurants in the city are on board, giving diners a chance to try their plates for a discounted price, with $5 of the cost of a $55 three-course dinner benefitting the Houston Food Bank. Our recommendation: use this as a chance to visit some of the city's most awarded restaurants, especially if you haven't gotten to them yet. We pulled together a list of Michelin-starred spots and Eater Award winners from this decade, looked over their $55 per person dinner deals, and included a list of what we would order from the offerings. 4210 Roseland Street in Houston For our first course, we would get the Patatas Bravas BCN with spicy oil and aioli. The second course has to be grilled duck breast served with quince, Idiazábal cheese sauce, pine nuts, and a balsamic vinegar reduction. We'd finish with a third course of Tarta de Santiago, an almond cake with homemade lemon marmalade. 5500 Main Street, Suite 122 in Houston First course of cured salmon with melon, creme fraîche, marinated cucumber, and croutons. Second course of Green Circle chicken with shallot coulis, haricot vert, and cashew chili crunch. Finish with a third course of caramel sabayon made with Valrhona Guanaja dark chocolate cremeux and salty caramel sabayon. 9061 Gaylord Drive, Suite 200 in Houston At this restaurant, which we coined as the place we'd most want to be a regular last year, we would start with the chilled corn soup with poblano, lime creme fraiche, and chilli oil. Second course has to be branzino with succotash, romesco, and radish. We'd end with the chocolate mousse with miso caramel and a flourless biscuit. 3001 South Shepherd Drive in Houston It's all about the seafood at our 2023 best new restaurant winner, and we'd go hard on Texas options. For the first course, we would go for the Gulf shrimp and andouille gumbo with potato salad. Second has to be the Texas redfish served with heirloom tomato sauce vierge. Finally, end with the tropical rum parfait with spiced rum cake, coconut chantilly, and mango pineapple compote. 3 Waterway Square Place, Unit 100 in The Woodlands The chicken tikki sampler is the place to start at our 2023 Restaurant of the Year. Second, we'd order the Malabar prawn curry with coconut kokum sauce. We'd finish with the cardamom chocolate mousse served with jaggery caramel. Eater Houston All your essential food and restaurant intel delivered to you Email (required) Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Eater
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Eater
Here Is Austin, Texas's 2025 James Beard Award Winner
The James Beard Foundation Awards were held tonight, June 16, and Austin, Texas walked away with one big winner. Arjav Ezekiel, beverage director and co-owner of Birdie's in East Austin, won the Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service award. Ezekiel was born in New Delhi, India, and moved with his family to Portland, Oregon when he was 12 years old, where he gained foundational hospitality knowledge from his father, who worked in hotels. After stints working at restaurants in Washington, D.C., and New York, he eventually relocated to Austin and opened Birdie's with his wife and business partner Tracy Malechek-Ezekiel, who serves as Birdie's chef and co-owner. The wine program at Birdie's has been recognized in national food publications, including on Eater Austin, when Birdie's won an Eater Award for Best New Neighborhood Wine Bar in 2021. In January 2025, the James Beard Foundation recognized six Austin chefs and restaurants on its semifinalists list, while San Antonio earned seven nods, largely in the Best Chef: Texas category. On April 2, the foundation revealed its finalists: In the Best Chef: Texas category, Emil Oliva of San Antonio's Leche de Tigre and Michael Anthony Serva of Marfa, Texas's Bordo each received nods; the award ended up going to Thomas Bille of Belly of the Beast in Spring, Texas. Other finalists included Mixtli in San Antonio in the Outstanding Hospitality category; Atomix, a restaurant in New York City, took home that honor. The James Beard Awards, often considered 'the Oscars of food,' are among the most prestigious awards in the food and hospitality industry. Each year, the James Beard Foundation restaurants, bars, and hospitality professionals in categories like Outstanding Restaurant, Best Chef, and Best New Chef. This year's awards added three brand-new categories: Best New Bar, Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service, and Outstanding Professional in Cocktail Service. The first James Beard Awards ceremony was held in 1991, when chefs like Rick Bayless, Nancy Silverton, and Wolfgang Puck walked away as winners. In recent years, the foundation has been under increased scrutiny after canceling its programming in 2020 and 2021 due to misbehavior and abuse allegations against nominated chefs, and a lack of nominated and winning Black chefs among the categories. In response, the James Beard Foundation conducted an internal audit to make its voting processes more inclusive and equitable before returning in 2022. The awards have also shifted the Best Chef category to a regional model to better recognize the diversity and depth of talent. Here are the 2025 James Beard Foundation awards winners for Austin:Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service: Arjav Ezekiel of Birdie's in Austin Get the full list of James Beard Award winners from across the country on Eater. Disclosure: Some Vox Media staff members are part of the voting body for the James Beard Awards. Eater is partnering with the James Beard Foundation to livestream the awards in 2025. All editorial content is produced independently of the James Beard Foundation. See More:
Eater
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Eater
A ‘Vital' Williamsburg Diner Is Closing This Summer
A Brooklyn restaurant known for its bright all-day vibes and modern New York Jewish diner and deli dishes is closing this summer. Gertie — that former Eater critic called a 'vital' addition to the NYC neighborhood dining scene — will have its last day in Williamsburg at 357 Grand Street at Marcy Avenue on Sunday, June 15. The Instagram announcement describes the shutter as Gertie's 'season finale, not a series finale.' The restaurant's co-owners founder and restaurateur Nate Adler and Rachel Jackson are looking for a new location for the restaurant, ideally near their other Brooklyn restaurant, Jewish American bistro Gertrude's, in Prospect Heights (which is run with chef and restaurant industry meme-maker Eli Sussman). Eater has reached out for more information. Adler took his cues for Gertie from Los Angeles all-day cafes such as Gjelina, but New York sensibilities, when the restaurant opened in 2019. Its modern Jewish menu includes dishes like chicken schnitzel with challah, bagels, latkes, and more. At the time, former Eater NY critic Ryan Sutton described Gertie as mimicking 'the sunny ethos of Los Angeles while also acting as a neo-nostalgia factory for classic New York specialties.' The restaurant also won Eater New York's Eater Award for best design of that year. Sign up for our newsletter.
