How to Book March, Houston (2026)
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"Pick the nine courses," the captain told me before I had opened the menu. "The six is for people in a hurry." Nobody at March is in a hurry, which is exactly why the twenty-eight seats are so hard to get.
Houston's only Michelin-starred tasting and a Food & Wine top-twenty room. Book OpenTable sixty days out for the proposal you want remembered.
Felipe Riccio trained at Modena's Osteria Francescana before he came home to open March on Westheimer Road in 2021, and the food press that watched the opening now competes for the same Saturday tables you do. Within two years March collected a Michelin star, a place on Food & Wine's list of America's twenty best restaurants, and the kind of reputation that makes a twenty-eight-seat room feel like a private club. The good news is that the door is not guarded by a lottery or a phone tree. The mechanics are public, and once you know them March is bookable.
How Hard Is March to Book?
Hard, and honestly hard for a reason worth respecting. There are twenty-eight seats, one seating philosophy, and no second location bleeding off demand. A Friday or Saturday at 7pm is the contested slot and disappears within hours of release. A Wednesday seating, or an early Thursday table, is a far calmer proposition and often survives into the week of. March runs a fixed tasting that the kitchen paces course by course, so think of it less as a table you grab and more as a seat you reserve in advance, the way you would a concert.
The Platform and the Window
March books on OpenTable, and only OpenTable. There is no Resy page, no Tock listing, and no walk-in bar. Tables release on a rolling sixty-day window, so the single most useful habit is to book the morning your date first enters that window rather than circling back later and finding it gone. If you are weighing one app against another, our breakdown of OpenTable, Resy and Tock compared explains why a sixty-day OpenTable drop behaves differently from a Resy prime-time release. When a prime night looks full, the move that works is the cancellation-refresh tactic: wine-pairing parties change plans, and a patient refresh in the forty-eight hours before service routinely shakes a two-top loose. Set an OpenTable Notify alert and check it at the same time each morning.
What You Are Actually Booking
You are booking a journey, literally. Each season Riccio's kitchen charts a single stretch of the Mediterranean, from a Spanish coastline one quarter to the Levant the next, through six or nine courses of real precision. The tasting has lately run around $195 to $230 a head depending on the region, with a regional wine pairing near $150 that the floor will tell you, correctly, to take. The room at 1624 Westheimer Road in Montrose is dark, low and warm, white oak and candlelight, the wine list leaning hard into natural and biodynamic growers from the same shores the menu is exploring. Full scoring lives in March's full review, and it is one of the city's strongest rooms for a proposal or for impressing clients. Shortlist it against Bludorn and Le Jardinier from our Houston dining guide.
Don't bother booking March if
You want a same-night table without planning, or you would rather order off a menu than surrender to a fixed tasting. March is twenty-eight seats and one synchronised meal that runs close to three hours; there is no bar to perch at and no à la carte escape hatch. If that is the wrong fit tonight, take a seat at Bludorn's bar and save March for the occasion that earns the sixty-day plan.
Frequently Asked Questions
How hard is it to book March in Houston?
Genuinely hard, because the room holds only twenty-eight seats and there is no second location to absorb demand. March releases tables sixty days in advance on OpenTable, and the prime weekend slots are claimed within hours of opening. Weeknights and early seatings are easier, and the smart play is to book the moment your date enters the sixty-day window rather than hoping for a late opening. Our guide to the hardest tables lays out the same discipline.
What platform does March use for reservations?
OpenTable, and only OpenTable. There is no Resy listing and no walk-in option, since every seat is part of a fixed tasting that the kitchen paces course by course. Set an OpenTable Notify alert for your date, then watch for cancellations in the forty-eight hours before service, when wine-pairing parties shuffle their plans and a two-top reappears on a Friday. March also sits on our Houston hardest-tables list.
How much does dinner at March cost?
March runs a rotating six- and nine-course tasting that has lately sat around $195 to $230 per person depending on the season's region, with an optional regional wine pairing in the $150 range. The price changes with the menu, which charts a different stretch of the Mediterranean each season. Felipe Riccio's kitchen is the most expensive table in Texas, and the cooking earns it. See March's full review for what to expect course by course.
Can you walk in to March?
No. March seats twenty-eight people for a synchronised tasting menu, so there is no bar service and no walk-in list. If the calendar shows nothing, your only routes are an OpenTable Notify alert and a patient cancellation refresh. Diners who want a same-night Houston seat should look at Bludorn's bar instead, then book March properly for the occasion that deserves it.
Is March good for a proposal?
It is one of Houston's best proposal rooms. The twenty-eight seats, the candlelight and the two-to-three-hour pace give you room to build the moment, and the service team will help if you tell them when you book. Choose the nine-course menu with the wine pairing and request a quiet corner. It ranks with the city's finest for a proposal worth remembering.