"The best part about lunch at Ostia is the pizza. The Montrose restaurant only serves its Neapolitan at lunch and on Sundays, and these pies are sneak-away-from-the-office excellent. The soft, slightly charred crust with speck pepperoni is the number-one seed in the Houston pizza bracket. And the confit garlic and taleggio pizza tastes like a savory, earthy, wood-fired cloud. Round out lunch with a silky beet-red tuna carpaccio drenched in olive oil and capers, and ignore emails while sipping a Cappelletti spritz in Ostia’s greenhouse-like dining room." - chelsea thomas, gianni greene