{"id":350209,"date":"2026-06-25T17:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350209\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:29:09","slug":"best-houston-restaurants-for-summer-2026-where-to-dine-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350209\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Houston restaurants for summer 2026: Where to dine, right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articleBody mb32\">Of the four restaurants that chef Aaron Bludorn, his wife Victoria and their partner Cherif Mbodji operate in their growing empire (a Bar Bludorn is slated to open in The Woodlands this year as well as a location in San Antonio later this fall), this seafood-centric spot in Rice Village is my favorite. Navy Blue feels like it should be in my regular rotation all summer long, especially the daily 2 to 5 p.m. happy hour. It\u2019s more modern with its nautical colors and natural light. The dinner menu is a wonderland for seafood lovers: oysters, shrimp, clams, tuna crudo and caviar to begin. Then comes the heavy hitters including dishes such as branzino, blackened red snapper, swordfish au poivre, and whole Dover sole. Other temptations include seafood pasta and crawfish risotto dotted with andouille sausage. Lunch may involve smoked mahi mahi dip, crab gumbo, and a crispy fish sandwich with mussel aioli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of the four restaurants that chef Aaron Bludorn, his wife Victoria and their partner Cherif Mbodji operate in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-350209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350209","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=350209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}