{"id":418479,"date":"2026-08-27T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418479\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T19:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:16:16","slug":"best-fine-dining-restaurants-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418479\/","title":{"rendered":"Best fine dining restaurants in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articleBody mb32\">A short walk from the Kemah Boardwalk, where the atmosphere can feel more corporate theme park than Gulf Coast getaway, you\u2019ll find a restaurant unlike any other in Texas. Chef David Skinner, a member of the Choctaw tribe, draws from Indigenous foodways across the Americas for nine- to 18-course tasting menus that are equal parts ambitious and theatrical. On one visit, a silken scallop comes glossed in corn butter, bringing land and sea together in a single bite; blue corn tostadas cradle tender quail, its smoky juices brightened by prickly pear. True to Skinner\u2019s \u201cWilly Wonka\u201d reputation, dishes emerge through mist, fire and cedar smoke, including a rabbit roulade tucked beneath a pastry dome carved with Maya symbols. The menu engages with Indigenous traditions through a distinctly modern lens, using techniques and presentation more commonly associated with high-end fine dining. It can be perplexing, but that\u2019s part of the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A short walk from the Kemah Boardwalk, where the atmosphere can feel more corporate theme park than Gulf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-418479","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\/418479","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=418479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}