March

March is a restaurant with a Michelin star on Westheimer Road in the Montrose district of Houston, Texas. Its chef and partner, Felipe Riccio, cooks tasting menus drawn from the Mediterranean, and June Rodil is in charge of the wine.

The restaurant belongs to Goodnight Hospitality, a Houston group owned by Rodil with Bailey and Peter McCarthy, which also runs Rosie Cannonball and Montrose Cheese & Wine. It opened in 2021, and Esquire counted it that year among the leading new restaurants in the country. Riccio was born in Veracruz, Mexico, to an Italian father and a mother of Spanish descent, and moved to Houston as a teenager. After culinary studies at Houston Community College he cooked at Aura, Reef, The Pass & Provisions and Camerata, and spent stages at Osteria Francescana in Italy, Azurmendi in Spain and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York.

The menu is rewritten twice a year, and each new season looks at a different corner of the region through its past, its culture and its cooking; one of them took a Venetian slant. The drinks pairings move with every change, drawing on a cellar of about 10,000 bottles that is strongest in Burgundy, Champagne and Piedmont. Riccio has been a James Beard semifinalist for best chef in Texas, and March has held its Michelin star since 2024.

The interior is the work of Curtis & Windham Architects and Studio Robert McKinley together with the group's own designers. In the lounge a Murano glass chandelier hangs near a Champagne cart from the 1960s, and the dining tables of European beech with brass details, padded and dressed in linen, were designed by the chef's wife, Hayley. Low light, polished wood and materials chosen to soften sound keep the room calm. That calm suits a menu which travels around one sea and asks diners to follow it from one coast to the next as the seasons turn.