Laurenzo’s | ★★ | Steakhouse | 4412 Washington | 713-880-5111
On a stormy evening almost exactly three years ago, before I started logging meals as the Houston Chronicle’s restaurant critic, I dodged potholes along Washington Avenue while the rain lashed against my car’s windshield before settling into dinner.
I remember stepping into a space that could’ve been a Tex-Mex favorite, Italian restaurant or even an Applebee’s. Margaritas alongside white chile con queso covered one table across from another where chicken parm hid beneath melted mozzarella, next to a third piled with fried foods like mozzarella sticks, calamari and onion rings…