Yes, Houston. Home to the Texans, NASA, the rockets, and of course, Queen Beyonce herself. Houston is proliferated with lively individuals and beautiful places to enjoy. The city boasts some of the best nightclubs, restaurants, shopping centers, multiplex cinemas, museums, art centers, and added bonus? The city is surrounded by a stunning green landscape.
When it comes to restaurants, get your silverware ready, because —honey, Houston has so much to offer to everyone.
If you didn’t know – now you do. Houston holds the record of the most times residents eat out in a week. This can be attributed to its diverse culinary scene with over 10,000 restaurants representing more than 70 countries, you will find your favorite! Here are some of the best sophisticated and intimate restaurants for a romantic date night in Houston.
Schilleci’s New Orleans Kitchen
Schilleci’s intimate and elegant French Quarter-style restaurant to matches its unique menu consisting of Louisiana classics like seafood gumbo and bread pudding along with a variety of fresh fish from around the world.
Schilleci’s provides a relaxing and intimate date night experience with your sweetie. Enjoy the off-menu chef specials, outdoor patio dining, and an expansive wine and beer selection. Cheers!
Rainbow Lodge
Rainbow Lodge is a comfortable, refined restaurant that serves succulent wild game. Also found on the menu are various kinds of seafood and steak.
Mark your calendar for their Monthly Wine Tasting. The event is a self-paced walk-around wine tasting that showcases three premium wines from a specific winery or region. You also get to purchase the wines at a discounted price to enjoy during your home date night or as you please.
State Of Grace
State of Grace takes you down memory lane of growing up being in a familiar place, and a warm neighborhood where you meet with longtime friends to play. State of Grace sits on the refurbished Lamar-River Oaks Shopping Center, and it is a place pulled from recollections. Its interior features games hanging from the wall, with oyster bar moons, leather, brick, wood, and elegant lighting colors.
The menu offers a variety of on-premise dining standard meals, hearth, and opportunities as categorized on the restaurant’s downloadable dinner menu.
State of Grace is a place to make memories, have fun, and eat good food.
Taste Of Texas
Taste of Texas is known for its finest hospitality. Bask in hand-selected finest quality certified Angus beef steaks hand-cut to their exact trim specification. Sip from an award-winning collection of over 350 of the finest label wines from an in-house inventory of over 4000 bottles, and 14 choices of fine wine by the glass.
Do well for yourself to make a reservation for your next date night with your partner.
Caracol
The artistic interior of the Caracol is not only breathtaking but also makes it one of the best sites for a perfect dining experience. The interiors are a mix of rustic and industrial, modern and traditional elements, with a natural color palette of sand, straw. The walls display aquatic life art by American Modernist painter Charley Harper.
This Mexican coastal kitchen truly offers a culinary tour of the Mexican coasts. The Caracol menu features Crudos and Cocteles y Escabeches, light items where the flavors of the seafood are the star with Antojitos, or “little cravings,” small bites, typically like street food throughout Mexico.
Brennan’s of Houston
Brennan’s of Houston opened as a sister restaurant to the world-famous Commander’s Palace in New Orleans. Since opening in 1967, Brennan’s has moved to become a premier destination for memorable dining in the city, served with true Southern hospitality.
Enjoy your dinner date with an abundance of tantalizing jazz music and the fragrance of fresh flowers; southern mainstays and twists on classic favorites served in sun-filled dining areas.
The Capital Grille
Going by its saying – We Wine, We Dine – The Capital Grille is a solid spot for a private or shared dining experience. Sure, you may have seen The Capital Grille in other states, and even tried it too. Either way, you know, it does not disappoint. From your first step into The Capital Grille, you get a comfortable, elegant experience. The art deco chandeliers and African mahogany paneling provide a warm, stately setting for nationally renowned dry-aged steaks, fresh seafood, and acclaimed world-class wines.
Its menu offers only the finest, freshest ingredients, masterfully prepared in recipes designed to engage all of your senses.
Bar Boheme
If you want a place to have intimate conversations over wine, cocktails, or beer, then the Bar Boheme is where you want to be.
The interior is made up of authentic steel frame windows, original brick walls, cozy couches, and antique light fixtures from Germany, France, and England, all providing a subtle old-world vibe. Comfort at its best.
Open to patrons is the 6,000 square foot garden adorned with Shona stone sculptures from Zimbabwe. This will make a great spot if your partner relishes the beauty of art.
Lucille’s
Lucille is a locally-owned restaurant found in the heart of Houston’s museum district. It was co-founded in 2012 by the two brothers, Chris and Ben Williams, to pay tribute to the culinary tradition begun by their great-grandmother, Lucille B. Williams. Today, the Lucille restaurant is run by Executive Chef Chris Williams and Chef Khang Hoang, and they continue to replicate her most famous recipes and create some of the best innovative southern food classics. Some of which include Lucille’s caesar, tuna classic salad, famous chili biscuits, roasted gulf fish, baked mac and cheese, pork and beans, gumbo Z’herbs, and many more found on its menu.
At Lucille’s, you get a dining experience of 20th-century principles filled with consistency, service, and care coupled with 21st-century culinary creations.
Pappas Restaurants
Pappas is a group of 9 restaurants owned by the Pappas brothers, Chris and Harris Pappas. The atmosphere at the Pappas restaurants is warm, inviting, and with open layouts and exciting themes to each concept. When you dine at any of the Pappas restaurants, you are in for exceptional service, great food with the Pappas trademark of quality, and entertainment while being treated as guests by their highly trained and attentive staff. You will be in for quite an event!
The Pappas restaurants offer a range of cuisine from around the world, all served in generous portions. Enjoy your date night with the finest and freshest seafood from a selection of fish ranging from halibut to mahi-mahi at any of the Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen in Houston, or savor the many finger-licking dishes provided at the various Pappas restaurants locations.
With that, we round up Houston’s most romantic spots for dining with your sweetie. Did you enjoy the list of restaurants from the largest city in Texas? Then don’t keep it to yourself, share it with a friend who might enjoy it too. You just might be helping the sparks of another’s love affair.
If you are needing more ideas, experiences, or suggestions of date night places to go in any city, connect with the Couples Experience CE Circle for all the goods.
