Hugo Ortega, the James Beard Award-winning chef behind Hugo's, built Xochi around the cooking of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. The dining room sits on the ground floor of the Marriott Marquis, sleek and modern but lit up with colorful Mexican folk art, with a glass wall facing the lawns of Discovery Green. The kitchen makes its own masa, chocolate and cheeses, and keeps a lineup of moles that can anchor a meal on their own. Build dinner around a mole, add something on the house masa, and finish with a dessert made from the house chocolate. It suits a convention-week business dinner as easily as a birthday.
What to expect
- The room is airy and modern; the bar is a good seat for a quicker meal.
- Valet is $11, on Crawford Street: weekdays from 4pm, all day Saturday and during Sunday brunch.
What to order
- A mole from the house selection
- Dishes on house-made masa
- Dessert made with house chocolate
- Hugo OrtegaChef
- H Town Restaurant GroupGroup
- Ground floor, Marriott Marquis HoustonSetting
- 2017Since