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VALENTINO VIN BAR

Hotel Derek, 2525 West Loop South
(713-850-9200)
Breakfast 7 days 7-11:30. Lunch 7 days 11:30–4:30. Dinner Mon–Sat 5:30–10. Reservations recommended.
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Houston

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(From January 2011) The Selvaggio Group (Santa Monica and Las Vegas) has staked out its claim in Houston at the Hotel Derek, adding contemporary red touches to a formerly muted dining room and touting world-class Italian cuisine. We happily devoured a crudo array from the raw bar—ahi tuna with wasabi aioli, white tuna and passionfruit, pompano with lemon sauce, and green-apple-topped scallops—and gave high marks to a wild mushroom risotto and a simple entrée of sliced NY steak. Service, though, with one overworked waitress, failed to deliver. Bar.

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