Oxheart Restaurant

Oxheart Restaurant in Houston, Texas

Had a fabulous meal here the other week. And the service is outstanding. The plating is spectacular and the food is divine. What I don't like about this resto is that you need to wait for other customer finish their meal before you can avail your reservation.

Get ready to see a change at one of Houston's most acclaimed restaurants. Over the weekend, Eater National chatted with Texas' Best New Chefs during the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. Matt McCallister (FT33, Dallas), Paul Qui (Qui, Austin) and Houston's own Oxheart chef and co-owner Justin Yu shared their thoughts on fine dining and Texas cuisine. That's where Yu mentioned that he would be...

Last month the James Beard Foundation announced this year's semifinalists, and the names of the finalists were broadcast via a livestream earlier today. Houston scored big with a relatively lengthy list of names. In the Best Chef Southwest (AZ, CO, NM, OK, TX, UT) category are Hugo Ortega (Hugo's), Chris Shepherd (Underbelly) and Justin Yu (Oxheart). This is Yu's first nomination, and both...

The James Beard Foundation announced the 2014 Restaurant and Chef Awards semifinalists. By Tuesday, March 18, 2014 this long list will be narrowed down to a list of finalists, and on Monday, May 5, 2014 the winners will be announced at the James Beard Foundation Awards in New York City. Houston contenders include some familiar names: Anvil Bar & Refuge was nominated for Outstanding Bar Program,...

Next Monday, Eater will present the 2013 Eater Awards, our fourth annual celebration of all that's made America's restaurant world run—and run wild—in the past twelve months. Winners will be selected on both the local and national levels in five major categories, the voting for which begins right now.

Here's how the voting works across the board: Eater editors have named nominees for each of...

We are native Houstonians with a restaurant in Houston that gathers Texas's best ingredients, cooked in a focused, creative way. Our restaurant is our home, so please come as you are to relax, eat, and drink. We look forward to having you join us for dinner.