Alison Cook’s Top 100 Houston restaurants

During the months I labored on compiling this ranked list of my 100 top Houston restaurants, scarcely a day went by that I didn’t hear the inevitable objections echoing in my head. Gripes like “it’s arbitrary.” Or “it’s just one person’s opinion.” Or “why on earth did restaurant X not make the cut?”
Even, more pointedly, “How can she rate a food cart above a white-tablecloth restaurant with a brigade of trained chefs, a squad of polished servers and a crack sommelier?”

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The List:

1. Oxheart	2. Kata Robata	3. Tony’s
4. Hugo’s	5. Feast	6. Underbelly
7. Uchi	8. Hubcap Grill	9. Pondicheri
10. Pho Binh Trailer	11. Himalaya	12. Melange Creperie
13. Dolce Vita	14. Killen’s	15. Irma’s
16. Philippe	17. Giacomo’s	18. Reef
19. Great W’Kana	20. Da Marco	21. Pico’s
22. Gatlin’s	23. Huynh	24. Latin Bites
25. Crawfish & Noodles	26. Mala Sichuan	27. Shri Balaji Bhavan
28. Bernie’s Burger Bus	29. t’afia	30. Vic & Anthony’s
31. Vieng Thai	32. Branch Water Tavern	33. Brennan’s
34. Ninfa’s on Navigation	35. RDG	36. Indika
37. Samba Grille	38. Haven	39. Quattro
40. Que Huong	41. Goode Co. Seafood	42. Poscol
43. The Burger Guys	44. Sylvia’s	45. Queen Vic
46. La Guadalupana	47. The Breakfast Klub	48. Kasra
49. Plonk	50. Confucius	51. Cafe Pita +
52. El Tiempo	53. Virgie’s	54. Americas
55. Aura	56. Au Petit Paris	57. Rice Bowl Indonesian
58. Kris Bistro	59. Roost	60. Karancho’s
61. Cafe TH	62. Bijan Persian Grill	63. Good Dog Hot Dogs
64. Alpha Bakery	65. Frenchy’s	66. Villa Arcos
67. Gilhooley’s	68. Banana Leaf	69. Pizaro’s Pizza
70. Kenny & Ziggy’s	71. Mezzanotte	72. Soto’s Cantina
73. Tony Mandola’s	74. Asia Market	75. Revival Market
76. Radical Eats	77. Korean BBQ	78. Rioja
79 Ristorante Cavour	80. Romero’s Las Brazas	81. Istanbul Grill
82. Taqueria Laredo	83. Coppa	84. Fu Fu Cafe
85. Danton’s	86. Beaver’s Icehouse	87. Ibiza
88. La Vista	89. El Gran Malo	90. Teotihuacan
91. Angus Grill	92. Lemon Tree	93. Nidda Thai
94. Alicia’s Tex-Mex	95. Turquoise Grill	96. Rainbow Lodge
97. Yum Yum Cha	98. Tango & Malbec	99. Pappas Bros.
100. Spanish Village