Common Bond Brasserie & Bakery

I was skeptical at first, but very pleased with the food and drinks. The corn chowder was bland but everything else was delicious! Allegedly the kitchen lost our ticket, so it took 30 mins to get our food. We also stopped on the way out and purchased some bakery items. I will go back.

We decided to come here for Houston restaurant week after stumbling upon the brasserie by chance. We've been to other common bond locations for coffee and pastries but we had no idea they had a restaurant too! We're big fans of common bond so we knew the flavors would probably be great. Spoiler alert, it did not disappoint. To be honest the whole reason we wanted to come back for restaurant week was to try their dessert, the blueberry lavender cheesecake, which is a restaurant week only item. For apps, we ordered the octopus and the asparagus. I would definitely recommend the octopus. It was packed with flavor and a good variety of textures. For our entrees we ordered the lamb and raviolo. The lamb was our favorite. And of course for dessert we both got the blueberry lavender cheesecake and it was totally worth coming here just for that alone. I need it to be a regular item. It was so light, refreshing, and creamy.

This was my second time, celebrating my good friends bday this time. Both times the atmosphere was beautiful and staff was friendly. First time I wasn’t too impressed with the food, I had the lamb chops, barely had any meat, with different sides and appetizers, crème brûlée and macarons were good. I will have to say this time, the food was better. I got the smoked duck rillettes, seared scallops that came on top of lemon herb risotto, oyster mushrooms, braised leeks, brown butter sauce, both were delicious!!! The passion mango chocolate bar was pretty good. Again, service was great!