Best Of Houston® 2026: Best Oyster Bar
We choose this year’s winner of Houston’s Best Oyster Bar.
We choose this year’s winner of Houston’s Best Oyster Bar.
Best Vietnamese: Huynh Restaurant When you have a huge population of Vietnamese people in a city, it can be difficult to pick what constitutes the best version of that delicious, wholesome food. But, when trying to sort it out, we fall...
Houston’s art scene is in no shortage of phenomenal organizations of all sizes, but this year undoubtedly belongs to Mercury Chamber Orchestra. Ringing in its 25th anniversary earlier this year, the organization has remained both a...
Best Breakfast Tacos: Tomas Bakery & Takeria One word of warning about Tomas Bakery & Takeria – it is not “no sabo” friendly, meaning you’ll be expected to know at least some basic, restaurant-related Spanish to order their incredible...
Best Bar – Rice Village: Under the Volcano Rice Village seems a world away from Cuernavaca, but they’re brought together by Under the Volcano, a past Best Of Houston® honoree, on any given day or night. The bar claims to be Houston’s...
Best Sports Bar: Pitch 25 The world‘s most popular sport was also Houston’s most popular sport for at least a couple of months in 2026. Soccer fans from points across the globe arrived to Houston for World Cup action and many crowded...
Best Wings: Feges BBQ Curry Lime and Alabama Sauce Wings Wings divorciados are not on the menu at Feges BBQ, but a couple of the standout house made sauces served at one of the city’s finest craft barbecue restaurants gives the best...
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Best Delivery Service: Deliver Houston, Inc. Long before Amazon or Door Dash, there were local delivery services that catered to business. They were commonly referred to as “hot shot” delivery (still are in the “biz”). Thankfully, not...
Best Dessert: Sweets By Belen South American-inspired pastries and cakes fill the display cases at Sweets by Belen, the finest place in the city to satisfy a sweet tooth with something that began elsewhere but now feels wholly Houston....
Best Deli: Nielsen’s Delicatessen Houston doesn’t have a deli on every street corner like New York City. People here tend to get their meat and cheese at the grocery store. So, a typical deli in Houston is more of a sandwich shop and...
Best Beer List: Cobble & Spoke There are beer bars in Houston with twice as many taps as Cobble & Spoke. It’s not quantity that makes the hidden Spring Branch treasure the city’s best beer list. It’s the expertly curated menu, filled...
Best Houston-Brewed Beer: Saint Arnold Lawnmower The best Houston-brewed beer has the perfect name: Lawnmower. Saint Arnold’s stalwart Kolsch-style blonde is a reliable machine, like the best version of its namesake. At start up, it...
Best Ceviche: Musaafer Lychee Ceviche Purists, prepare to bristle – the best ceviche in Houston is a vegetarian option served at an Indian restaurant. Musaafer’s signature lychee ceviche may be a departure from the norm, but the...
Best Liquor Store: Barrels & Bottles – Fine Wine and Craft Spirits When trying to find the right ingredients for your cocktail party, it can get frustrating finding something of quality at the corner liquor shop and overwhelming...
Best Bar – Midtown: Two Headed Dog There’s a flag tacked to the back wall of Midtown’s Two Headed Dog which reads, “Raise Hell, Kid.” It’s a great backdrop for your IG photos and such, but strictly as a command it mercifully does not...
Best Comic Book Store: Bedrock City Comic Company Westheimer Bedrock City Comic Company’s store on Westheimer may have been tucked into a corner of a shopping strip for more than a decade now, but the trusted comics vendor is hardly...
Best Mexican Bakery: El Bolillo Bakery No one eats the fresh, flaky pan dulce purchased at their favorite El Bolillo location on site. There’s not a real seating area in any of the outposts of the popular Mexican bakery we’ve been to...
Best Hot Dog: Houston Astros Dollar Dog There’s hardly anything more American than baseball and hot dogs. At Daikin Park, home of the 2026 A.L. West champion Houston Astros, that slice of Americana gets a very Houston twist thanks to an...
Best Speakeasy: Bandista Not to toot our own horn (okay, maybe just a few notes), but when we’re right, we’re right. Two years ago, we tabbed Bandista as the city’s best speakeasy. Since then, the little bar with big heart hidden away...
Best Place to People Watch: Recreational Sports Events They say everything is bigger in Texas, including the butts. Our haters would have people believe the state and this city are populated with brisket-gobbling, recliner-lounging big...
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We choose this year’s winner of Houston’s Best Thin Crust Pizza.
Best Dive Bar: Cowboix Hevvven You know the highways and backroads that lead to the plethora of intriguing dive bars in this city. Ask your Uber driver to pass La Mexicana on Montrose and you’re suddenly at the mother of them all,...
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