Indigo restaurant

Indigo Restaurant opened in July 2018, as chef Jonny Rhodes' first permanent restaurant. He's been on the menu for Indigo since at least 2014, when he started fermenting and soaking ingredients such as thin slices of pumpkin pickled with citrus satsuma skin appearing on the menu. Those ingredients are transformed into beautiful, constantly creative dishes.

Indigo restaurant has an intimate, 250 square meter space with a concrete U-shaped table and can accommodate up to 13 guests. The handcrafted ceramics and decorations inside the restaurant are carefully selected, cleverly reminiscent of Africans and the origins of soul food.

The term soul food was coined during the Civil Rights Movement of 1960, when black people were so upset with the oppression and discrimination they received from white people. Chef Jonny Rhodes is committed that he can convey soul food to diners in the most profound way through his dishes.

Currently, the restaurant is offering 2 different menus, a vegetarian menu featuring items such as: “vegetable ham”, smoked coleslaw and a meat-eater menu featuring Gulf fish. Directly caught, aged smoked pastrami,...

Dinner at Indigo is a cultural experience with different social stories, and a piece of history attached to each dish.

Gold Links (gold link): the menu's first dish is made with potimarron squash preserved in the citrus zest of satsuma and star anise. This dish was made to treat malnutrition - a disease common to slaves and children, leading to a deficiency of vitamin C.

Domino: For Rhodes, the game of life is not chess but dominoes. This dish was inspired by a phrase that Rhodes often heard in his childhood when someone got five points in a game of Dominoes. On diners' plates now is a perfectly cooked piece of smoked fish over embers with a sauce preserved in 2015 along with some small thick caramel tomatoes and chunks of dill pickle.

While it's not technically a dish, the okra coffee at Indigo is a must try at the restaurant. In this warm, richly flavored drink, there's no real coffee but instead dried and toasted okra seeds mixed with cream and sugar giving them many similarities to coffee. but it was outstanding, although it was a bit less bitter.

When it came out with dessert, Rhodes explained that the origins of okra coffee can be traced back to ancient Egypt. In the United States, however, the drink became popular among Confederate soldiers during the Civil War after Confederate troops blockaded all major Southern ports, preventing goods such as coffee and coffee. coffee in the southern states.

Each dish here has its own story and of course also has a special taste. Diners come here not only to enjoy the food but also to listen to the hidden corners behind the formation of the soul food culinary school.

Popular Food & Wine magazine named Indigo one of its "Best New Restaurants of 2019", just one year after the restaurant opened.

Website : www.htxindigo.com

Phone : (832) 582.6388

Hours of Operation :

Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday: 19:00

Friday and Saturday: 18:00 and 20:45

*Diners must make a reservation before arriving at the restaurant and do not arrive more than 15 minutes later than the booked time or it will be cancelled.