Today, the only restaurant I remember of that little strip of Texas Avenue is Chipotle. Sambuca Houston's closure leaves the Sambuca chain with just two other locations in the U.S.: one in Plano ...

When the Italian restaurant Sambuca opened in 1998, it wasn’t the shrimp scampi, chicken marsala or generous pours of pinot grigio that kept Houstonians coming back year after year. The live ...