Houston’s acclaimed fine-dining restaurant March featured on Meals & Wine journal cowl
Houston’s preeminent fine-dining restaurant March, which continues to garner nationwide accolades since opening through the pandemic, landed the quilt of Meals & Wine journal’s September situation debuting at present.
Three golden, saffron-tinged bowls of fregula cun cocciula (Sardinian fregola with clams) grace the shiny journal’s wine-themed situation. A 12-page function, which incorporates 5 recipes, follows how chef Felipe Riccio and grasp sommelier June Rodil spearhead the restaurant’s menu growth. The couple and different restaurant staffers are photographed at Goodthyme Farm — which is positioned in Bellville about an hour exterior of Houston — harvesting produce, sipping wine and even leaping right into a pool with their garments on.
Houston’s preeminent fine-dining restaurant March, which continues to garner nationwide accolades since opening through the pandemic, landed the quilt of Meals & Wine journal’s September situation debuting at present.
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It’s yet one more high-profile media highlight for the tasting menu restaurant backed by Goodnight Hospitality, a well-funded group which incorporates homeowners Peter and Bailey McCarthy. They personal the complicated which homes March as effectively their different eating places Rosie Cannonball and Montrose Cheese & Wine. The McCarthy household additionally owns the Goodthyme Farm, which sources a lot of the produce for the restaurant.
In 2021, Esquire named March the seventh greatest new restaurant within the nation (one other Houston restaurant, Degust, ranked seventeenth out of 40). Earlier this summer season, luxury-focused publication the Robb Report named the Montrose institution the second greatest new restaurant in America. The Chronicle’s restaurant critic Alison Prepare dinner wrote that “March is the sort of swing-for-the-fences enterprise of which Houston has not seen the likes because the glory days of The Cross.”
The quilt story hits the newsstands as March stays closed till September 15, when the brand new menu debuts. A six-course “Discovery” tasting is $185 and the nine-course “Exploration” menu is $245 – with wine pairings beginning at $80 and $95, respectively.
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When the brand new fall-winter menu drops, it can nonetheless give attention to the Mediterranean for inspiration however some dishes will draw particularly from the Canary Islands, Sardinia and Malta. The extra rustic recipes featured within the journal could seem as specials on the menu at Rosie Cannonball, a spokesperson confirmed.
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Amberjack crudo with chermoula, radish, pickled rose and apple
Alison Prepare dinner / Employees
“The islands are the crossroads of the Mediterranean,” mentioned Riccio in a press release. “They’re usually used as springboards for additional exploration. On the similar time, due to the isolation created by their geography, they’re additionally an ideal atmosphere for uniqueness and creativity.”
