{"id":381819,"date":"2025-11-16T00:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381819\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T00:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:02:36","slug":"best-of-houston-2025-best-tasting-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381819\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Of Houston\u00ae 2025: Best Tasting Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Best Tasting Menu: Barbacana<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To taste Houston\u2019s food scene in one unforgettable meal, start here. Set in a stunning 1910 building with great vibes and art, Barbacana delivers a tasting menu that\u2019s modern, exciting and shaped by the city\u2019s melting pot of cultures. Chef Christian Hernandez honed his skills at local favorites like Oxheart, Indigo and Michelin-starred March, bringing that experience to every dish \u2013 Gulf by-catch with tomatoes and leche de tigre, dry-aged duck with dates and pistachio dukkah, TX Wagyu with sunflower suya and tamarind. Add wine pairings, and you\u2019ve got date night on lock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Barbacana\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x2667cd6da34078a1?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:2428&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">907 Franklin<\/a> <br \/>832-538-0652<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/barbacanatx.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barbacanatx.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/?post_type=newspack_collection&amp;p=390334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan 1 \u2013 Dec 31, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/author\/houston-press\/\" rel=\"author noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cropped-houston-press-icon-scaled-1-80x80.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Houston Press is a nationally award-winning, 34-year-old publication ruled by endless curiosity, a certain amount of irreverence, the desire to get to the truth and to point out the absurd as well&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/author\/houston-press\/\" rel=\"author noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Houston Press\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best Tasting Menu: Barbacana To taste Houston\u2019s food scene in one unforgettable meal, start here. Set in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":381820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[12730,4345,36006,358,7453,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-381819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-homepage","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-restaurants","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-top-story","13":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115556447190429090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}