Michelin has eliminated a second restaurant from its Texas Information.
Kâu Ba, a Viet-Cajun restaurant in Houston, closed earlier than Michelin introduced its inaugural record of the most effective eating places in Texas. French restaurant evaluate firm Michelin didn't catch on in time and named Kâu Ba a winner of Bib Gourmand, an honor given to Texas eating places for providing price-conscious meals.
By Michelin's definition, Bib Gourmands presents a two-course dinner, plus a glass of wine or dessert, for $50 per individual or much less.
A complete of 45 (now 44) eating places in Texas had been honored with the Bib Gourmand Award, together with seven in Dallas-Fort Price. Discover the Dallas winners right here.
Michelin's correction was its second of the week: Michelin rescinded Dallas Italian restaurant The Charles' Beneficial score the day after the massive reveal. Michelin confused The Charles with Mister Charles, an impartial Dallas restaurant owned by the identical mother or father firm.
The Charles error was brought about “by our geolocation course of,” Michelin introduced in an announcement. As a substitute, Mister Charles was topped beneficial recipient and the Charles award was eradicated.
The Texas Michelin Information has already made historical past, as 4 unbelievable steakhouses obtained a 1-star Michelin score. Just one Dallas restaurant obtained one star, and The Dallas Morning Information has analyzed what meaning.
We additionally explored a associated in style matter: Why didn't Texas get 2 or three star eating places?
As for Kâu Ba, the Houston Chronicle calls it a “gender-bending Vietnamese restaurant.” The restaurant has reportedly been open on and off since September 2024.
The restaurant introduced on Fb six days earlier than the Michelin ceremony that it’ll briefly shut “to carry you one thing extraordinary.”
“This can be a heartbreaking scenario,” Kâu Ba chef Nikki Tran wrote in an e mail to The Dallas Morning Information. She selected to not remark additional.
Kâu Ba will grow to be a Vietnamese-Peruvian restaurant known as Alora, the Chronicle reported.
This story is a part of The Dallas Morning Information' Michelin Information to Texas protection. Learn extra about restaurant picks in Dallas-Fort Price and throughout Texas.