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These Couples Power Some of Houston’s Best Restaurants | Eater Houston

"In 2014 a chef working as an executive at a New York fine-dining restaurant spotted a fellow cook staging at a prominent chef’s restaurants and remembers asking the maitre d', “Who’s that?” only to be told, “Oh, that’s Victoria Pappas. She’s way out of your league!” That initial cross-kitchen eye contact—paired with Victoria’s later thought, “That chef is so cute,” and her quip, “I’m going to dress up a little more today”—helped seed a relationship that would later flourish after a Christmas Eve text in 2015 and a first date in January 2016." - Brittany Britto Garley