The Best Restaurants With a View in Houston

WHILE HOUSTONIANS ENJOY dining in strip centers just fine, sometimes it’s nice to please the eye as well as the palate. Enter these local jewels.

B&B Butchers & Restaurant

This handsome steakhouse and butchery is all dim lighting, exposed brick and crisp white linens. Reach the next level of scenic euphoria by dining on the rooftop patio, which offers a choice skyline view. Get one of the much-adored carpetbagger filets, or, during the Booze & Bites happy hour, a charcuterie board.

Batanga

You’ll be in the heart of the action at this downtown stunner, which sits right under Market Square’s Louis and Annie Friedman Clock Tower. The historic building, home to a saloon back in the 1880s, now plays host to a funky sangria-and-tapas joint—think oxtail mole, braised albóndigas and red snapper ceviche. Happy hour brings inexpensive mojitos, wines and Latin American–style flatbreads.