Via Matta

Via Matta was founded in 2003. Via Matta specializes in Eating Places.

The basil gimlet--fresh basil with lime and vodka--is not to be missed.

The dining room, while great for groups, can be a bit too loud for intimate conversation.

Houston's first and oldest municipal park contains nine historic structures and a museum gallery. The Kellum-Noble House is Houston's oldest standing brick structure still on its original foundation. If you're visiting around the holidays, try to catch the annual Candlelight Tour in the Park, when costumed actors give tours of the park's homes.

"Still a heady player" on Michael Schlow's roster, this Park Square Italian maintains a "high standard" with "spectacular" cuisine enhanced by "fantastic" wines and "personalized service" in an "urban", "elegant" interior (and on the "wonderful" patio); "expensive" tabs hardly matta to well-to-do types who deem it all "worth it."

Via Matta Restaurant Review: Via Matta’s been positively throbbing with customers since day one. Hardwood floors, Italian glass and leather and rolling cheese carts make for festive atmospherics. The menu, however, is smartly restrained and intriguingly elegant. In its nifty twist on a classic, pungent porchetta tonnata has rightly become a signature, as has the much lighter variation on...

Enoteca at Via Matta Restaurant Review: Glass light shades with dizzying patterns from Murano and earth-toned tiled walls are only a part of the scene that distinguishes Enoteca at Via Matta. This tiny Back Bay wine bar-within-a-trattoria attracts a younger crowd with its affordable prices and late-night menu (available until 1 a.m.). You’ll find a savvy roster of Italian tapas like antipasti...

Via Matta, a restaurant that brings the cuisine of Italy's Piedmont, Tuscany, Liguria and Emilia Romagna regions to Boston's Back Bay. And doing it the simple way: with the best seasonal ingredients available, and by obeying over 1000 years of culinary inspiration.