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Houston

Everywhere we track in Houston — restaurants ranked by the ones where we've seen the Amex Resy credit badge ourselves, then Michelin standing, then how people rate them.

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12 places to go

Immersive Gamebox

4.9 out of 5(2,767 reviews)Amusement Center
Visit site ↗1200 McKinney St Unit 313 3rd Floor

Houston Museum of Natural Science

4.8 out of 5(31,337 reviews)Museum

Museum with dinosaur hall & other permanent exhibits, planetarium, IMAX theater & butterfly house.

Visit site ↗5555 Hermann Park Dr

Water Wall

4.7 out of 5(5,335 reviews)Tourist Attraction
Visit site ↗2800 Post Oak Blvd

Discovery Green

4.7 out of 5(22,713 reviews)Park

Park with live music, public art, restaurants, playground, pond for kayaking & exercise classes.

Visit site ↗1500 McKinney St

Gerald D. Hines Waterwall Park

4.7 out of 5(10,146 reviews)Park

Park whose centerpiece is a 64-ft.-tall fountain circulating 11,000 gallons of water every minute.

Visit site ↗2800 Post Oak Blvd

Houston Arboretum & Nature Center

4.7 out of 5(4,322 reviews)Botanical Garden

155-acre urban green space offering nature trails, exhibits, workshops & events in various habitats.

Visit site ↗4501 Woodway Dr

Rainforest Pyramid

4.7 out of 5(3,437 reviews)Zoo

Home to sharks, seahorses & other animals, this attraction features a 1.5-million-gallon aquarium.

Visit site ↗1 Hope Blvd

Hermann Park

4.7 out of 5(30,495 reviews)Park

Expansive park featuring a golf course, Japanese garden, a natural science museum & a kiddie train.

Visit site ↗6100 Hermann Park Dr

Buffalo Bayou Park

4.7 out of 5(6,478 reviews)Park

Winding, 160-acre green space featuring views of the Houston skyline plus a fountain & a skate park.

Visit site ↗105 Sabine St

Space Center Houston

4.6 out of 5(54,871 reviews)Museum

Educational center highlighting all eras of U.S. space travel via exhibits, tours & attractions.

Visit site ↗1601 E NASA Pkwy

Color Factory Houston

4.6 out of 5(3,054 reviews)Art museum

Quirky art space filled with immersive, colorful installations, featuring a ball pit & balloons.

Visit site ↗3303 Kirby Dr

Museum of Illusions Houston

4.6 out of 5(2,434 reviews)Museum
Visit site ↗5060 W Alabama St Ste 2D

Getting there on points

Published award prices from Houston, from our own pricing run.

Flights

CUNBusiness · American AAdvantage
30,000 mi
SJDBusiness · American AAdvantage
30,000 mi
JTRBusiness · Miles & More
55,000 mi
ATHBusiness · Miles & More
55,000 mi

Hotels

Hyatt Regency Kyoto
15,000/night
Hyatt Regency Paris Étoile
15,000/night
Park Hyatt Dubai
20,000/night

How this list is built. Restaurants and bars come from Google Places for Houston, refreshed Oct 14, and are split between the two tabs by the venue type Google reports. Booking platform is detected from each restaurant's own website. Michelin and Sapphire Reserve marks are matched by name and place. Where Google has no description we say what we hold about the venue instead.

What the marks mean. Since August 1 a restaurant only triggers the Amex Resy credit if its Resy page shows the “Qualifies for Resy Credit” badge — we open those pages and look, last on Sep 15, and a blank badge means we haven't checked yet, not that the credit fails. A sighting inside thirty days reads “Resy credit”; an older one carries the date we saw it, because what we can honestly say is what we saw and when. A Sapphire Reserve table is on Chase's Exclusive Tables list, where the $150 half-yearly dining credit applies — enrol the card at OpenTable first · list Sep 9. Michelin means starred, Bib Gourmand or Selected in the 2026 US guide, collected Sep 9. James Beard and the bar lists are the current year's awards, with a win shown differently from a nomination.

Card credits change without notice. Confirm on Resy or with your issuer before you count on one.