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Fearless Critic restaurant review
Houston
Food
Feel
Price
7.6
6.0
$40
Italian
Casual restaurant

Hours
Mon–Thu 11:00am–2:30pm
Mon–Thu 5:00pm–9:30pm
Fri 11:00am–2:30pm
Fri 5:00pm–10:00pm
Sat 5:00pm–10:00pm

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

www.fratellishouston.com

Spring Branch
1330 Wirt Rd.
(713) 263-0022

Spring Branch
10989 NW Fwy.
Houston, TX
(713) 957-1150
Fratelli’s
Navigate around the American touches for some authentic tastes of Emilia-Romagna

These two pretty authentic Italian restaurants are in the oddest places: one’s in a decaying strip mall just outside the Loop on 290, and the other’s in a tonier strip mall near Hilshire Village. The atmosphere at the original Fratelli’s is so sweetly downmarket-trying-for-upmarket that it can look cheap and…

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