La Vista
Seared ribeye steaks is a signature dish by Chef Greg Gordon favorite at his restaurant La Vista on Tuesday, August 27, 2008 in Houston, TX. Chef Greg Gordon's favorite cooking tool is a cast iron pan. Photo by Mayra Beltran / Chronicle
Italian restaurant La Vista's Mussels with white wine photographed at La Vista in Houston, Texas. ( Billy Smith II/STAFF)
Greg Gordon poses at his La Vista restaurant on Friday, Feb. 20, 2009, in Houston. ( Sharon Steinmann / Chronicle )
Robin Bruce, left, and Carlene Warren eat lunch at La Vista restaurant on Friday, Feb. 20, 2009, in Houston. ( Sharon Steinmann / Chronicle )
Chef Greg Gordon's favorite tool is his cast-iron pan, which he use to smoke and seared ribeye steaks at his restaurant La Vista on Tuesday, August 27, 2008 in Houston, TX. Photo by Mayra Beltran / Chronicle
Italian restaurant La Vista's
(front) Beef tenderloin dish with cherries, apricot, port and roasted potatoes, (back)Mussels with white wine photographed at La Vista in Houston, Texas. ( Billy Smith II/STAFF)
88. La Vista
The restaurant that showed Houston that BYOB could be serious upscale fun back in 1998 still rocks and rolls in its original location. Chef-owner Greg Gordon has one of those exuberant palates that adds rather than subtracts, but by some strange alchemy, even his more outrageous-sounding concoctions end up tasting great. Cinnamon-coffee-cumin-crusted pork tenderloin? Beef filet with port-wine apricot and cherry sauce? They actually work. So do relative simplicities like heady white wine-sauced mussels or blessedly light eggplant Parmigiana. This is contemporary American food with an Italian slant and a bold Houston sensibility. P.S.: if you care about drinking from nice wine glasses, bring your own. Corkage is six bucks.
Cuisine: Italian
Entree price range: $$
Where: 1936 Fountainview
Phone: 713-787-9899
Web: fatbutter.com
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