5555 Washington Avenue
Houston, TX 77007
713-426-4260
www.catalanfoodnadwine.com
Catalan Food and Wine offers a bold, Spanish-influenced menu that has garnered rave reviews and awards including Esquire’s “Best New Restaurants 2007” and Food & Wine magazine’s “Best New Wine List 2007” since opening its doors in September 2006. Catalan continuously bustles with excitement as lunch and dinner guests linger beneath modern, metallic chandeliers, graceful brick arches and a flock of abstract glass butterflies that flutter above the airy dining room. Acclaimed Chef Chris Shepherd presides over the room from his open kitchen, where he charms diners with his witty, powerful food and a painstaking commitment to locally grown ingredients. Renowned sommelier Antonio Gianola tends to a dazzling wine list boasting hundreds of bottles housed in Catalan’s towering, dark-wood wine wall. Gianola and Shepherd, both partners in Catalan, share an uncommon wine philosophy with the restaurant’s well-known owners, Charles Clark and Grant Cooper of Ibiza Food & Wine Bar. This four-star foursome believes strongly in an aggressively priced wine selection with prices just above retail, as it allows customers to experience new wines or simply enjoy a superb bottle with their meal. The ever-changing wine list and its mammoth selection are testament to this wine philosophy’s popularity and Catalan continues to provide Houstonians a welcome escape to the restaurant’s namesake - the sunny Spanish region of Catalonia.
