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Prestigious Michelin Guide selects 44 Houston restaurants for 2025 edition

March remains one of Houston's Michelin-starred restaurants.

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The Texas restaurant scene is once again basking in an international spotlight. The Michelin Guide has revealed its statewide selections at an invite-only ceremony held Tuesday, October 28 in Houston.

Overall, 44 Houston restaurants are included in this year's edition of the guide. They are divided as follows:

Michelin Star awarded to “establishments serving exceptional cuisine that’s rich in flavor, remarkably executed, and infused with the personality of a talented chef.”

Maintaining from 2024:

BCN Taste & Tradition
Corkscrew BBQ (Spring)
Le Jardinier
March
Musaafer
Tatemó

Bib Gourmand - Awarded to “restaurants that offer good quality food for a good value.”

Maintaining from 2024:

Belly of the Beast (Spring)
Blood Bros. BBQ (Bellaire)
Casaema
Killen’s
Killen’s Barbecue
Mala Sichuan Bistro
Nam Giao
Nancy's Hustle
Nobie's
Pinkerton’s Barbecue
The Pit Room
Rosemeyer Bar-B-Q
Rosie Cannonball
Street to Kitchen
Tejas Chocolate + Barbecue (Tomball)
Theodore Rex
Truth BBQ

New for 2025:

Annam
Chopnblok
Da Gama Canteen
Maximo
Papalo Taqueria

Recommended - For quality restaurants that don’t qualify for either a Bib Gourmand or a Michelin star.

Maintaining from 2024:

Baso
Bludorn
Brisket & Rice
Candente
Hidden Omakase
Late August
Pappas Bros. Steakhouse

New for 2025:

Agnes and Sherman
Bar Bludorn
Credence
Hong King Street Food (Katy)
J-Bar-M Barbecue
Josephine's
Neo
Perseid
The Marigold Club

Additionally, Elliot Wood of Credence was honored with the Michelin Service Award.

Michelin announced its plans to launch the inaugural Texas guide in July 2024 and revealed its selections last November. In all, 30 Houston restaurants made the 2024 guide, divided into six, one-star restaurants, 17 Bib Gourmand, and seven recommended.

Considered to be the most prestigious restaurant review authority in the world, Michelin uses five criteria to evaluate restaurants. They are: product quality; mastery of cooking techniques; harmony of flavors; the personality of the chef as reflected in the cuisine; and consistency over time and across the entire menu.

Michelin employs a team of anonymous inspectors to visit restaurants and assess their worthiness for the guide. The system has certain advantages — for example, anonymity helps ensure inspectors don’t receive special treatment during their visits. It also has disadvantages — neither readers nor the restaurants know when or how many times the inspectors visited before deciding on a rating.

Earlier this month, Michelin announced its “key” ratings for hotels across America. Hotel Saint Augustine, a boutique property in Montrose, was the only Texas addition to the list of recognized hotels.

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THE 'BUCKS STOP HERE

1 Houston-area Starbucks to shutter among 250 nationwide

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Starbucks is closing a Houston-area locations this week as part of a broader plan to shutter 250 underperforming stores across North America, the company says.

In a September 24 press release, chief operating officer Mike Grams revealed Starbucks would close the coffee shops where the company doesn't "see a path to acceptable financial performance" or locations where the company doesn't believe can "consistently deliver the experience [they] want" for customers and employees.

The Seattle-based coffee chain operates more than 40,000 coffee shops globally, and over 18,000 in North America. The recent closings make up about 1 percent of the total stores operating in North America alone.

Starbucks has not publicly released a list of the locations that will be closing, but an online list has been confirmed by CultureMap's content partner KVUE.

The Tanger Outlets Houston Starbucks at 5885 Gulf Freeway in Texas City is included in the list of closures. The Starbucks store locator indicates affected stores will be closed after Saturday, September 26.

Grams says the company is speaking directly with affected employees and will transfer them to other stores whenever possible. Employees who cannot secure transfers will receive severance support.

Other Starbucks locations in Texas that are set to close include:

Snider Plaza – 6733 Hillcrest Ave., Dallas, 75205
Preston & Alexis – 14760 Preston Rd., Dallas, 75254
6115 Camp Bowie – 6115 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, 76116
Hwy 59 & Miller St. – 202 Loop 59 N., Atlanta, 75551
Loop 360 & Westlake – 3801 N. Capital Of Texas Hwy., Austin, 78746
SR 71 & US 290 – 7015 W. U.S. Hwy. 290, Austin, 78736
N. Bell & 1431 – 1109 N. Bell Blvd., Cedar Park, 78613
S. Home St. & FM 942 – 609 S. Home St., Corrigan, 75939
Main St. & TX-361 – 2975 Main St., Ingleside, 78362
College & 9th – 812 College Ave., Levelland, 79336
Murphy & Blackburn – 6600 Murphy Rd., Sachse, 75048
Wurzbach Rd. & Gardendale St. – 8746 Wurzbach Road, San Antonio, 78240
FM 544 & Hwy 78 – 410 Highway 78, Wylie, 75098

"Every year we close some coffeehouses and open others as part of managing our portfolio," Grams says in the release. "And as we shared previously, we remain excited about the significant long-term growth opportunity ahead in North America."

In May, Starbucks said it would close some U.S. offices, including one in Dallas, and would lay off 300 corporate employees and as part of its ongoing turnaround.

Starbucks has been trying to reduce costs and complexity under Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in 2024. Last year, the company laid off 2,000 corporate employees and closed hundreds of stores in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Niccol said last spring that the simplified structure would help the company innovate more quickly.

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This story contains material from the Associated Press.

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