The Heights restaurant checks many standard Houston Italian restaurant boxes: minimal lighting, dark wooden walls, and people leaning over candlelight while sharing a bottle of wine. But the real selling point is the covered patio and the lush garden where you can soak up the sun and live what temporarily feels like a slow life. Split a pizza loaded with spicy, slow-roasted pork with your friends, make a plate of fried oyster mushrooms disappear in record time, or "Lady And The Tramp" some warming cacio e pepe under a giant, shady fig tree.