Looking for a mouthwatering Italian meal near you? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top Italian spots around Houston, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to fulfill your urges.

Winter is the top season of the year for consumer spending at restaurants across the Houston area, according to data on local business transactions from Womply, a small business software provider and email marketing company. The average amount spent per customer transaction at Houston-area restaurants rose to $28 for the metro area in the winter of last year, 1% higher than the average for the rest of the year.