Best Restaurants in Memorial, Houston

Memorial dining clusters around four nodes: CityCentre at I-10 and Beltway 8, Memorial City Mall a mile east, the Town & Country corridor along Memorial Drive, and the small strip-center pockets inside the Memorial Villages. The area skews steakhouse and upscale American. Here is the current shortlist.

Eddie V's Prime Seafood

Eddie V's at CityCentre is the area's reliable special-occasion seafood room. Expect bone-in filet, Maine lobster tail, and a raw bar with East and West Coast oysters. Live jazz plays in the V Lounge most nights. Reservations open 30 days out and Friday dinner books up fast. The patio overlooks the CityCentre fountain, which makes it the closest thing Memorial has to a downtown plaza scene.

Steak 48

Steak 48 opened on Westheimer in the River Oaks District in 2016 and became an address for prime beef on Houston's west side. It sits well east of Memorial proper, closer to the Galleria. The 22-ounce bone-in ribeye and the truffle gnocchi are the two non-negotiable orders. Loud, busy, mirrored, and not cheap. Expect $250 a head with wine, but the kitchen is consistent and the service is sharp.

Postino Memorial

Postino's Town & Country Village location, just east of CityCentre, is the area's wine bar of record. The bruschetta board (four to a flight) covers the menu, and the daily 5 p.m. happy hour drops bottles to half off. The patio holds 80 and runs full on weeknights through October.

Lupe Tortilla Memorial

The Memorial-area Lupe Tortilla runs the same fajitas-and-margarita formula the chain has served since Stan and Audrey Holt founded it in 1983. The sandy outdoor playground next to the patio is what makes this the default family dinner spot in Memorial. Kids run, adults drink, and everyone eats.

Becks Prime at Memorial Park

Becks Prime sits at the eastern edge of Memorial Park and runs the best burger in the immediate area: quarter-pound mesquite-grilled patties on a buttered bun. Order at the counter, eat at picnic tables under the live oaks. The 6 a.m. opening, seven days a week, makes this the runners-and-cyclists post-trail spot. See our Memorial things-to-do guide for the trail map that ends here.

How to plan a Memorial dining run

Memorial's restaurants are spread across roughly four miles of Memorial Drive and the I-10 frontage. Eddie V's sits inside CityCentre, and Postino is a short hop east at Town & Country Village. Steak 48 sits closer to the Galleria. For everything else, plan to drive, and budget extra time for the I-10 eastbound crawl after 4:30 p.m. (our I-10 guide has the timing). For weekend visitors trying to fit Memorial into a Houston trip, our 2-day itinerary maps a route that pairs Memorial Park with lunch at CityCentre and an early dinner downtown.

Memorial sits in the affluent west loop and is the heart of one of Houston's most established neighborhoods. See our full Memorial neighborhood guide for what it is like to live here.