Chef Manabu Horiuchi is opening a new intimate omakase restaurant in Houston, where only one seating per night will be had ...

For years, I've wondered how mac and cheese ended up on the menu of one of Houston's most acclaimed Japanese restaurants. And for years, I kept forgetting to ask because it tastes so darn good. Kata ...

Kata Robata, considered one of the city’s finest and most consistent restaurants, will soon have a sister concept. Katami, a new restaurant (whose name means “gift” or “keepsake” in Japanese) from ...

Chef Hori prefers anago (left and middle) to unagi (right) at Kata Robata. Credit: Photo by Gwendolyn Knapp It’s that special time again. Time to round up top posts from our recent past, and since we ...

Uni (sea urchin) is one of those seafood delicacies that, like oysters, you either love or hate. If you love it, eating it will fill you rapturous delight, often accompanied by a heady rush of ...

Last fall, while dining at laidback Kata Robata in Houston, chef Manabu Horiuchi handed me a few pieces of his signature sushi: soft, lightly torched hamachi topped with a sunny side up quail egg and ...

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I’m doing something a little sacrilegious here. I grew up in Philadelphia devouring cheesesteaks. Literally four houses down from me was a pizzeria that made good cheesesteaks. In my neighborhood ...

When Manabu Horiuchi (“Hori” to friends and customers) came to Houston in 2000, he was already a seasoned chef with a distinguished career in Tokyo. Here he honed his skills at a local sushi bar ...

It’s lunchtime on a Friday and Kata Robata’s head chef Manabu Horiuchi is standing in front of me brandishing a huge fish. The red seabream, longer than Chef Hori’s forearm and barely contained in its ...

Katami, a high-end sushi restaurant from the team behind Kata Robata, opened in early November 2023 in the north Montrose space that was once home to Vincent’s, a long-time Italian food hotspot.

Go Wagyu! will bring together 10 of Houston’s top local chefs to battle it out in a wagyu beef throwdown. The chefs will prepare their most inventive, delicious dishes with authentic Wagyu beef ...