If I needed to describe Block 7 with one word, it would be enigmatic. Is it a wine bar, or is it a restaurant? Is it young and hip, or older and stuffy? Is it casual or.....well, you get the picture. Given the name, one would expect wine bar, but the appearance, menu and wine list are more suggestive of a fine dining restaurant.
The decor is similar to that of many new restaurants in Houston....Industrial, SOHO chic with lots of glass, concrete and steel. The wine list was OK. I am always disappointed when wine-centric establishments don't have flights. Flights are a great way to taste multiple wines, think Cova. I had a glass of their most expensive Pinot (from Russian River Valley), it was OK but not nearly as good as the Moshin I blogged about earlier, and not worth 14 dollars/glass. The food menu had a nice variety to choose from. They were out of the fish special at 7pm, a bit early I think. I started with the seafood bisque, which was very good. Rich, deep and complex it had great flavor and nice chunks of lump crab. My entree was a smoked pork chop. It had very nice, smokey flavor but was quite dry. The mashed potatoes were very good and the spinach was unevenly cooked. The best thing was a very flavorful, smokey, tangy BBQ style sauce on the plate. Only three dessert were available, and none caught my attention so I skipped dessert. There were no ports on the wine list, so that finished the meal.
Don't get me wrong...it was not a bad meal, just not as good as the many competitors of this genre in Houston. The prices were slightly higher than average. The average rating online is 4 stars out of five. I would have to agree, it is about an 80%, or a low B.
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