At Messina Hof’s New Restaurant, Come For Wine, Stay For Wine-Food

Mar 13, 2021 647

BY: Timothy Malcolm

IS THERE WINE IN THE MEATBALLS? (Yes, there’s wine in the meatballs.) Is there wine in the stuffed mushroom caps? (Yes, there’s wine in the stuffed mushroom caps.) Is there wine in the gooey brown butter blondie? (Yes, there’s wine in the gooey brown butter blondie.)

You get the point. Wine is incorporated in every dish on nearly every menu at Messina Hof’s new Harvest Green Winery & Kitchen, which opened last month at 8921 Harlem Rd. in Richmond. We say nearly every menu because the kids stuff isn’t cooked with wine. That wouldn’t work. But everything else is. The pan-seared chicken? That’s merlot in the demi-glace. The roasted beet salad? That has a sauvignon blanc vinaigrette in it. 

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SOURCE: https://www.houstoniamag.com

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