Hotel Daphne, the boutique hotel that opened late last year in the Heights, has earned a Michelin Key.<\/p>\n
The Key award “celebrates the best of the best” of the Michelin Guide’s hotel selections, according to its website. Michelin added 65 new hotels to its U.S. list on Friday, including six others in Texas. Hotel Daphne was the only new Houston\u00a0awardee.<\/p>\n
“This 49-room escape in Houston Heights embraces the artistic, bohemian side of Houston, an angle that sets it apart from the majority of the city\u2019s lodgings,” inspectors wrote. “Hypsi, the hotel\u2019s Italian restaurant, is helmed by a celebrated local chef, and the lobby library doubles as a shop displaying a curated selection of locally produced goods.”<\/p>\n
Run by Austin-based group Bunkhouse Hotels, Hotel Daphne aims to\u00a0mimic<\/a> the style of 1940s bungalows common to the Heights. Besides its guest rooms, decorated with colorful furniture, it also features a library with game tables and book nooks. Art by Texan creatives hangs on display.<\/p>\n Bunkhouse brought on chef Terrence\u00a0Gallivan, of the now-closed but much loved restaurant The Pass & Provisions,\u00a0to run\u00a0Hypsi. He said he tries to make\u00a0the restaurant\u00a0feel like a living room, and in his menu, he presents\u00a0Italian food with a few Gulf Coast touches<\/a>: housemade pastas like squid ink radiatori, lamb meatballs, roasted snapper with salsa verde. A mozzarella cart roams the room.<\/p>\n