Best Restaurants Open on Sunday in Houston 2026

Brennan's has cooked Texas Creole at 3300 Smith Street since 1967, and Sunday is its showcase. The kitchen runs from 10am to 9pm, so you can arrive for the jazz-backed brunch or hold out for the 5pm dinner seating. Order the turtle soup finished tableside with sherry, then the bananas Foster flamed at the table, a dessert the Brennan family is widely credited with creating. The room rewards a jacket, and the wine list runs deep in Burgundy and Bordeaux.

Hugo Ortega won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Southwest in 2017, and Hugo's on Westheimer is where his regional Mexican cooking is most generous. The Sunday brunch buffet runs 10am to 3pm with made-to-order tamales and a chocolate fountain, then the kitchen carries dinner through to 9pm. Order the cochinita pibil or the mole poblano that takes two days to build. On Sundays the room fills with multi-generational Houston families, which tells you exactly how the city rates it. Hugo's is closed Monday, so Sunday is the day to come.

Shawn Virene built a'Bouzy around two obsessions, Champagne and souffle. The River Oaks room at 2300 Westheimer pours from one of the largest Champagne lists in Texas and finishes most meals with a Grand Marnier souffle you order at the start of the meal. Sunday service opens at 10am with a brunch that leans hard into eggs and bubbles, then runs straight through to 9pm. Book the patio if the weather holds. It is the Sunday table in Houston for anyone marking something worth a cork.

Brasserie 19 sits on West Gray and plays the part of a Paris brasserie better than most, with a marble raw bar, steak frites, and a wine programme known for discounting bottles early in the week. Sunday hours run 11am to 9pm, with brunch until 3pm. Order a tower from the raw bar and the steak tartare, then ask whether your bottle falls under the lower Sunday and Monday pricing. The crowd is River Oaks regulars who treat the bar as a second living room, which makes it an easy solo perch too.

Coltivare grows much of what it serves in a working garden behind the Heights dining room, and Chef Ryan Pera's pastas are the reason it stays booked. Sunday is dinner only, 5pm to 9pm, so treat this as an evening pick rather than a brunch one. Order whatever pasta is chalked on the board and a wood-fired pizza, and ask what came out of the garden that week. The strings of light over the patio make it one of the softer Sunday rooms in the city, and the kitchen is part of the respected Agricole Hospitality group.

Caracol is Hugo Ortega's coastal-Mexican counterpart to Hugo's, plating the seafood of Mexico's Gulf and Pacific from a bright room on Post Oak Boulevard. The catch on Sunday is timing, because the kitchen serves only 10am to 3pm, so this is a long Sunday lunch and not a dinner. Order the pulpo, a vuelve a la vida cocktail, and whatever whole fish is on ice that day. Ortega's H-Town Restaurant Group has collected a stack of James Beard nominations, and Caracol is the seafood-led reason why. Book ahead, because the Sunday lunch fills.