by Mike Riccetti

Ristorante Cavour, the restaurant in the Hotel Granduca in Uptown Park and one of handful of fine dining Italian restaurants in the city, quietly added a new executive chef in November, Enrico Glaudo, who comes from the Los Angeles area where he cooked for over two decades. This included at his own restaurant, Frascati, which was open for nearly nine years, first in Redondo Beach and later Rolling Hill Estates.

It earned a very respectable 14/20 from Gayot (for what it's worth, the highest score for a Houston restaurant is 16/20). It shuttered in 2012. Glaudo worked at Piero Selvaggio's ground breaking modern trattoria, Primi in West Los Angeles, rising to executive chef before departing in the late 1990s. Selvaggio praised his "talent and creativity."

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