Collina's Italian Cafe in Houston

Prices were 3 times more than the menu. The food was excellent! Just prepare your self for prices!

Nora is a fantastic server. The guys there are all very friendly and attentive. The food is always great. Definitely a once a week lunchtime spot for me and my coworkers.

The bf and I recently decided to give Collina's Italian Cafe in Houston's Heights neighborhood a try. Before we ordered food, our server popped open a bottle of wine that we brought since Collina's is BYOB and has an insanely cheap corking fee, y'all (something like $3). I seriously love a good BYOB! We also were presented with a basket of complimentary focaccia, which was a little on the dry side, but once dipped in some olive oil and vinegar, we were happy campers! Before ordering our main dishes, we started off with the stuffed artichoke. This was phenomenal, and easily my favorite food item of the evening. The steamed artichoke half - which came out piping hot - was stuffed with artichoke hearts, Italian bread crumbs, and romano cheese, and was topped with garlic butter. All of the ingredients were then baked together to form a wonderfully fragrant and succulent dish. The artichoke was incredibly tender, the bread crumbs were soft, and the garlic butter was bursting with velvety flavor. A few squirts of lemon gave it a wonderful zippy ending! For my main course of food, I ordered the linguini primavera. Even though the noodles were on the thicker side, the olive oil base gave this dish a surprising lightness. And the wide array of vegetables included in the dish (broccoli, zucchini, yellow squash, spinach, onions, mushrooms, an...