Alison Cook Reflects on 12 Best New Houston Restaurants

As we bring 2015 to a close, Alison Cook provides her reviews and picks of the best twelve new restaurants in Houston for the year for our week in review (including the winners of our 2015 Eater Awards). They are (in her order):

1. Helen Greek Food & Wine
2. SaltAir Seafood Kitchen
3. Saltillo Mexican Kitchen
4. Izakaya
5. Oporto Fooding & Wine House
6. The Treadsack 3: Hunky Dory, Bernadine's & Foreign Correspondents
7. Peska Seafood Culture
8. State of Grace
9. Weights & Measures
10. Bramble
11. Southern Goods
12. Fielding's Local Kitchen & Bar

She also cites some reincarnates/rebirths that were  notable for 2015. "In a year when some iconic restaurants were reborn in new-and-improved locations - among them Killen's Steakhouse, MF Sushi, Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, Gatlin's BBQ, Corkscrew BBQ and Asia Market - I've confined myself to new concepts rather than the exciting reboots or brand expansions that might have tempted me in thin years past."