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"Plenty of Houston restaurants aim for ambition, but few land as many direct hits as Mexican fine dining spot Belly of the Beast. It's the best restaurant in Spring, but also one of the most exciting in the whole region—the kind of place that you bring a food-savvy friend you want to impress. At Belly Of The Beast, they cook with an almost obsessive attention to detail: potatoes folded into masa and fried while still steamy inside, salsas tuned so they sneak up on you instead of smacking you in the face. And their smoky carne asada sets a new benchmark for this corner of Texas." - Brooke Viggiano