Well, for my Anniversary this year I had my heart set on the Palm but it didn't happen. We ended up getting an awesome deal on a nice hotel downtown and spent the evening there. We thought we'd walk around downtown and end up at Birra's or something but the rain was coming down and we were dying from hunger so we stayed in the hotel and got into their restaurant called VOICE - WOW - so glad we did!

 

VOICE is participating in the Houston Restaurant Week which means a limited menu of the best recipies with money going to the Houston Food Bank and we were very impressed. We got complimentary drinks (plus room upgrade on already discounted room) from the hotel. The Voice's HRW menu is $35/person.

 

I had the carneroli risotto appetizer which is the best appetizer I've ever had.  My wife had what looked exactly like a cappacino but was a mushroom soup (w/truffle foam, porcini powder). It tasted great but not as good as mine. I could have had more of the risotto for supper and been fine with that. For a main cource we both had the pork loins which were pretty good. They had some sweet tasting veggies underneath the pork which we are trying to identify but they looked like tiny clear capers - yum.

 

To finish up my wife had the warm chocolate cake w/chocolate sauce and caramel sea salt ice cream.  I had the strawberry rhubarb crip (pictured below).  Very good. All of that and our bill was around $80.

 

 

Hotel Icon is a pretty nice place which I would recommend to anyone if you can get the discounts we got - a very enjoyable anniversary!