Brio Tuscan Grille is located in City Centre in Houston. They opened about a year ago and everytime we go there is another fantastic dish to behold. Their Mezza Chicken "under the brick" is wonderful with a marsala sauce. The wine sauce was reduced just enough to keep the taste of the wine intact. The recent special was a Penne Mediterranean Shrimp dish. It has Penne pasta, mushroom, spinach, sundried tomatoes, carmelized onions, shrimp and pine nuts in a bercy sauce (a very light wine sauce). The chef cooked the shrimp and Penne perfectly, the spinanch was blanched and gave great color to the dish and the sundried tomatoes bitter taste complimented the carmelized onions and the bercy sauce. The sundried tomatoes weren't chewy or tough and the pine nuts gave a nice surprise texture to the dish. They have a variety of desserts from mousse desserts to canoles. The creme brulee was wonderful with bits of vanilla bean throughout this cool dish topped with a sugar dusted strawberry. There are locations all over the country. So if you find yourself in one of those locations, try Brio Tuscan Grille and see how wonderful their food is.
