Fiori, Houston TX

SO delicious. My favorite for lunch is the seared tuna salad- so fresh and perfectly flavored!
They offer gluten free pasta so you can try almost any pasta dish if you’re GF.
Highly recommend giving this place a try!

Went for New Years Eve, and although the food was hit or miss, with some dishes being excellent and others average, the disappointment for the evening was after sitting for 2 hours, no drinks and no dessert we had to leave to make our NYE plans. What was lacking was enough servers to cover the full restaurant. We waited over 20 minutes for dessert before finally going downstairs and finding somebody who could close us out. With the pre-fixe dinner, of course we were still charged for dessert. In Houston there are too many choices, we will not be going back.

Went for NYE, some chose pre-fix and others did not. Starters were unique and delicious! One Main came out cold so that was a bummer. Desserts were as expected. Bartender, Mike, I think was the best service person on the floor. They seemed to be a bit understaffed but overall a great time. Beautiful place, we will be back.

I had fettuccine Pesto and it was delicious. The service was amazing and I loved the vibe. They have an outside patio and upstairs that also look so nice for a good weather brunch date

I've waited a few weeks to write this review because I didn't want it to be tinged by emotion. I had truly the worst serving experience here of my life. I was embarrassed for the restaurant, the chef, and the poor young man who clearly had not been trained and never had a service job. He dropped a plate of our food, on the floor he didn't know how to open a bottle of wine at all, he didn't know how to interact with clients, I think he was having terrible anxiety. I wasn't irked at him but at the older server or floor manager who just watched on as my dad had to open his own bottle of wine and show this kid. Mind you it wasn't busy, at the time we were the ONLY clients at the restaurant. What in the actual world.

And the food, utterly mediocre Italian food and over priced. I say that as an Italian living in America and knowing what a decent Italian place is like in this country, at that price point. I wanted to like this but I just felt embarrassment for the chef. The chef tepidly asked how it was when we left? No apology, no sending anything out.we were very gracious and understanding of the young server, especially my father who tried to play it all off and put him at ease but I was personally appalled. Clearly a toxic work environment.

The owner very rudely kicked out my daughter and me 4 minutes after closing as I was trying to finish paying the bill.

Food isn’t great and is overpriced.

(Good waiter though.)

Head over to Gatsby’s instead.

Nice, cozy place, but we had a baby close to us that was crying loudly and often. All of the dishes we got were good or excellent. Several vegetarian options.

I had an order to go and I arrived right on time to pick it up but the lasagna was cold, the pasta was hard and the top almost burnt, definitely not fresh, it was heated and overcooked. $30 for that low quality and such small piece is too much!

Beautiful small place filled with flowers. A terrace on the second floor. We went there for lunch the food was somewhat good and pricey. The service, dessert, and the mimosa, I give it a 5 star.

We came for a late lunch, not busy at all. Service and food were excellent! I particularly liked my scallop risotto. The scallops were perfectly cooked for my taste.

Went there for Sunday brunch which was not brunch at all but lunch instead, no biggie. Reservations were for 12 noon and we were the only table of 4 in the entire restaurant for the duration of our lunch, couple of hours. The food was good but they were out of a couple of dishes we initially wanted, no biggie again since pasta and tomato sauce is pretty much the same in any form. The server was lovely but the kitchen seemed disorganized. We finished our meal with 2 cappuccinos but instead we got 2 lattes. No one should drink a latte after a pasta lunch, at least that's not what they do in Italy. There were out of the Lasagna and offered no soup. Online menu is totally different than the one given to you in person.

Felt like second-hand citizens as they seat us isolated upstairs despite having reservations. Zero attention given. Couldn’t even get water. We decided to set a timer after sitting for 20 minutes without a single employee addressing us to see how long it would take, but after another 10 min decided it wasn’t worth our time.
We came downstairs and handed them our menus and they looked surprised that anyone was up there. Whoever is in charge of hosting needs to be held accountable for wasting my time on my anniversary.

Although the place is cute, I had a very negative first impression of Fiori. I remember being so excited to go have dinner there and making reservations at 9 pm on 12/1/2023, and I get there like 5 mins before 9. I get seated, get the opportunity to chose my table, which was nice. Me and my date are looking at the menu, we make our choices, and we let the waiter know what we want to eat. Waiter says okay (doesn't write our order down on his on-hand mini notepad by the way), leaves, comes back and asks us if we want appetizers. We say mmm not sure, he suggested the crostinis, so we said yes to that. Our crostinis arrive, 30 minutes pass by and now I'm worried about our food, seeing as its 9: 40 pm and they close at 10 pm. The busboy passes to collect our now empty appetizer dishes and forks/knives and asks us if we are waiting for something else, and we say yes our pastas.
Waiter comes by a few minutes later asking "I was told that you were still waiting on something? " and I said "Yes we asked for the Cacio e Pepe and Lasagna". Waiter apologizes profusely "oh my god I am so sorry this is so embarrassing your food will be out shortly" After another 20 minutes (at this point we have been waiting for about an hour now and I am starving) our food comes out, and my partner gets his lasagna BUT I get handed a salad - which I did not order, I ordered a Cacio E Pepe which is a PASTA.
Immediately I tell the waiter "I ordered a Cacio E Pepe. " and once again he apologizes profusely and asks me if I still want the pasta and at this point I am starving and I say "its okay ill just have this. " UNFORTUNATELY for me, the salad was HORRIBLE! It was not tasty, it was cold, and wet, as if the spinach and arugula had just been washed and was sloppily made. My date enjoyed his hot tasty lasagna but I had a miserable time and did not want to eat the disgusting salad. After being charged $117 for extremely poor service and food, I never want to go to Fiori ever again.

1 star is too gracious. We had reservations for our anniversary from two days before. We arrive and get seated upstairs where there are no guests and no servers. 25 min pass and we still don’t have water. My boyfriend went downstairs and handed them the menus as we walked out, 4 young staff members were standing in a circle unaware that we were upstairs, including the host who sat us. NEVER go there.

Edit: ON THAT NOTE. If you want Italian, go to Roma down the street, we were greeted like we were usuals, cracking jokes with the host. That is what service should be. Our anniversary is saved thanks to ROMA.p

The chef’s culinary creations are not just a feast for the taste buds but also a reflection of the magic in his friendly hands. Thank you for making dining a delightful experience. Thank you!

What a disappointment. This was the first time I’ve never completed more than 50% of my plate. I ordered the short rib ravioli. The food was cold, the sauce looked and tasted like they opened a can of tomato sauce and just poured it over top and sprinkled Parmesan on top. Usually I let bad experience slide, but for the amount of money we spent there and how underwhelming it was I couldn’t let this one go.