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Fearless Critic restaurant review
Houston
Food
Feel
Price
7.0
7.5
$65
Modern, French
Upmarket restaurant

Hours
Mon–Fri 11:00am–10:00pm
Sat 5:30pm–10:00pm

Features Date-friendly, good wines, outdoor dining
Bar Beer, wine, liquor
Credit cards Visa, MC, AmEx
Reservations Accepted

www.lauriercafe.com

Greenway Plaza
3139 Richmond Ave.
Houston, TX
(713) 807-1632
Laurier Café and Wine
Simple and well-made food that goes unnoticed in these daring times

Laurier Café keeps things refreshingly simple, considering its cuisine—classic-French-meets-modern-Texas—is so often capable of mucking things up with cumbersome ingredients. The décor sort of hints at the minimalism to come; it’s colorful, but contemporary and simple, with abstract art and down-tempo club music played at a conversation-friendly softness. Most of the…

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