{"id":233250,"date":"2026-04-03T09:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233250\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:52:20","slug":"new-modern-italian-restaurant-opens-in-west-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233250\/","title":{"rendered":"New modern Italian restaurant opens in West University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Osteria di Mercato recently opened on University Boulevard, serving modern Italian dishes that are rooted in tradition, according to the restaurant\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>The gist<\/p>\n<p>Led by Executive Chef Mauricio Alvarado and General Manager and Sommelier Marco Thompson, the restaurant offers an intimate setting with only 25 seats.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Osteria di Mercato will offer fine wines, authentic Italian food and dishes such as foie gras torchon and grilled Ora King salmon, according to the restaurant\u2019s social media.<\/p>\n<p>Something to note<\/p>\n<p>The osteria\u2019s opening is an expansion of Mercato and Company, a neighborhood market that serves a variety of items, including pantry staples and grab-and-go gourmet food.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Osteria di Mercato recently opened on University Boulevard, serving modern Italian dishes that are rooted in tradition, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10761,1604,90250,62,63398,56,58,57,20638,90247,1454,90248,67,90249,1481,1983,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-233250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-authentic","9":"tag-community-impact","10":"tag-craft","11":"tag-dining","12":"tag-dishes","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-headlines","15":"tag-houston-news","16":"tag-italian","17":"tag-mercato-and-company","18":"tag-near-me","19":"tag-osteria","20":"tag-restaurant","21":"tag-specialty","22":"tag-trending","23":"tag-where-to-go","24":"tag-wine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}