Houston Restaurant Weeks Must-Try Menus

02 August 2018
in: Visit Houston

Visit Houston, by Mai Pham
Full Article: https://www.visithoustontexas.com/culinary-tours/culinary-blog/post/houston-restaurant-weeks-must-try-dinner-menus/

For restaurant lovers, there is no better time in Houston than August thanks to Houston Restaurant Weeks (HRW). The single largest fundraiser for the Houston Food Bank, it’s the month-long event during which eating out will actually help to feed the hungry. For each $20 lunch or brunch HRW menu sold, participating restaurants will donate $3 (enough for 9 meals) to the Houston Food Bank. Each $35 HRW dinner will result in a $5 donation (enough for 15 meals), and each $45 dinner will result in a $7 donation (enough for 21 meals).

Since its inception in 2003, Houston Restaurant Weeks has raised more than $12.2 million dollars. This year, HRW lasts from August 1 through September 3, 2018, with more than 250 of Houston’s top restaurants participating. Ready to eat out for a great cause? Here are seven tables to book for HRW 2018:

Potente HRW

Looking for a chance to dine in one of Houston’s most beautiful dining rooms for steal? Named Eater Houston’s Most Stunning Restaurant of 2017, Potente Houston’s $45 HRW Italian fine dining dinner menu offers a choice of four sumptuous starters, four entrees, and three desserts by executive chef Danny Trace. Start with the Polpetti Arrostiti, a charred octopus dish with squid ink fettuccine and fava bean, followed by a fire-roasted Branzino served in lobster broth, finishing off with a delightful Delizia al Cioccolato hazelnut chocolate dome.

The menu also offers some fancy upgrade options. A $5 supplement lets you enjoy a diver scallop appetizer, and an $8 supplement gets you an 8-ounce Filetto di Manzo beef filet entree. The restaurant’s signature Spaghetti al Tartufo Nero, a cacio e pepe pasta finished at the table side with freshly shaved truffles, is also worth the splurge for a supplement of $12. *Photo by Mai Pham

The Astros and Caviar Go Together Like Carlos Correa and Daniella Rodriguez – It’s Gourmet Foodie Heaven

02 November 2017
in: PaperCity Magazine

FOODIE EVENTS / SOCIETY

The Astros and Caviar Go Together Like Carlos Correa and Daniella Rodriguez

It’s Gourmet Foodie Heaven

BY SHELBY HODGE // 11.02.17 // PAPERCITY MANAGZINE

With World Series celebrations in order, timing could not be better for a night of caviar, truffles, bubbly and Belvedere — to benefit the Astros Foundationand the Astros Harvey Relief Fund. The “Evening of Indulgence & Extravagance” takes place Tuesday, November 7, at Potente, which happens to be Astros owner Jim Crane‘s experiment as restaurateur.

DR Delicacy and Potente chef Danny Trace are teaming up for the six-course dinner extravaganza with the former providing the caviar and truffles and the latter delivering on a menu worthy of a World Series victory celebration. Moet & Chandon and Dom Perignon will be icing down the champagne at the restaurant that is within cork-popping distance of Minute Maid Park, home to the 2017 World Series champions.

Reservations, $200 per person, are available here. For that tariff, diners will taste four different caviars, Texas Wagyu beef, black truffle spaghetti, foie gras mousse, foie gras torchon, and more.

Tis the season for baseball and truffles, a happy coincidence that DR Delicacy is giddily embracing as the first direct importer of fresh black and white truffles in the southern U.S. Add to the company’s luxury larder caviars, foie gras, edible gold and the like.

The importer of gourmet foods has also teamed up with UberEATS to offer home or office delivery of all manner of delicacies including Russian and French blinis to pair with DR/Delicacy’s Royal Osetra caviar, duck foie gras torchons, or smoked salmon. It’s a holiday thing, available within a six-mile radius of the company’s headquarters at 4120 Directors Row, Suite A, 77092. That includes parts of Tanglewood and Memorial. The service is available via the UberEATS app on Thursday and Friday, 9 am to 3 pm. Saturday and evening hours are planned.

Houston gourmands can now get caviar and truffles through UberEATS

02 November 2017
in: Houston Chronicle

Houston gourmands can now get caviar and truffles through UberEATS

Houston Chronicle By Greg Morago

Published 10:03 am, Thursday, November 2, 2017

Photo: DR Delicacy

Most UberEATS users know they can their favorite wings, burgers, nachos and lo mein delivered at the touch of a fingertip. But it’s not an app traditionally associated with bringing caviar, fresh white truffles, and foie gras to your door.

Houston’s DR Delicacy has partnered with UberEATS to change that. The luxury food purveyor that specializes imported gourmet food items is working with UberEATS to begin delivery of posh foodstuffs including fresh artisan pasta, sauces, truffle products, smoked salmon and caviar. For now the delivery is available only on Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. (presumably that gives you plenty of time to fetch the French champagne and Russian vodka before your osetra-eating guests arrive). Evening delivery hours are coming soon, though; and the delivery area is currently a six-mile radius from DR Delicacy’s headquarters near the 610/290 split.

“I know there are days that many of us prefer to entertain friends and family at home,” said DR Delicacy founder and CEO Diane Roederer. “To be able to just tap the app and have caviar and truffles delivered to your door seems like an amazing idea. It also takes last minute stress out of party planning.”

The delicacies also can be sent as holiday gifts, she added.

Roederer, who has made a name for herself in Houston as a specialty food importer specializing in black and white truffles from Spain, has steadily built her luxury food offerings since establishing in 2014.

For the UberEATS venture, DR Delicacy rolls out the red carpet. The fish roe offerings range from smoked trout roe ($10 for 1 ounce) to osetra caviar ($110 for 1 ounce); Russian or French blini for $10. Other delectables: foie gras torchon, $80; fresh white truffles for $150 per ounce; fresh black truffles for $45 per ounce; artisan pastas for $7.99; fresh lobster ravioli for $13.99; fresh pesto or Italian marinara for $10.99; and truffle oil for $25.98. And in case you need a dab of crème fraiche for your blini, or misplaced your truffle slicer, they have that too.

Speaking of caviar, DR Delicacy and Potente restaurant in downtown Houston are collaborating an evening of culinary extravagance on Tuesday, Nov. 7 from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Called La Nuit du Caviar, the dinner from chef Danny Trace will feature variety of caviar presentations, dishes such as pork belly with pumpkin risotto, Texas wagyu carpaccio, foie gras mousse with truffled toast, pasta with truffles, and foie gras torchon with toasted brioche. And plenty of champagne from Moet et Chandon and Dom Perignon; vodka from Belvedere.

Tickets are $200 per person with proceeds going to the Astros Foundation and the Astros Harvey Relief Fund.

Houston Food News Bites: Winter Truffle Season Is Here

31 October 2017
in: Houston Food Finder

Houston Food News Bites: Winter Truffle Season Is Here

Houston Food Finder – POSTED: OCTOBER 31, 2017 AT 11:41 AM / BY LINDSEY TAFOLLA

La Nuit du Caviar

November 7

DR|Delicacy and Potente Present La Nuit du Caviar, 1515 Texas: Ease into the holiday season with an evening of indulgence and extravagance benefitting The Astros Foundation and The Astros Harvey Relief Fund on November 7 from 6:30 to 10 p.m. at Potente. The La Nuit du Caviar event features domestic and imported caviars, autumn truffles from France and Italy, Champagne provided by Moët & Chandon, Dom Pérignon, vodka provided by Belvedere, and a special menu crafted by Danny Trace, executive chef at Potente. Tickets are $200 per person and may be purchased through Eventbrite.

Upcoming Houston Food Events: World Series Eats and a Night of Caviar

27 October 2017
in: Houston Press

Upcoming Houston Food Events: World Series Eats and a Night of Caviar

BROOKE VIGGIANO | OCTOBER 27, 2017 | 5:00AM | HOUSTON PRESS

Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings:

DR Delicacy and Potente, 1515 Texas, will present La Nuit du Caviar (A Night of Caviar) on Tuesday, November 7, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. The evening will highlight domestic and imported caviar and fresh autumn truffles from France and Italy, as chef Danny Trace serves up a menu paired with Champagne and vodka provided by Belvedere, Dom Pérignon and Moët. Tickets are $200 per person and proceeds will go to benefit The Astros Foundation and The Astros Harvey Relief Fund.