Houston Carmelo's

14795 Memorial Dr.
281.531.0696
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Houston Event Rooms [click pictures for Hi-Res] Watering Hole Italian-Style The bar features a Roman aquaduct with fountain heads carved of white stone in the shape of fish head masks. This creates the image of a traditional Italian public water supply trough.

Luisa Room This room seats 160 people at a time. Columns and hanging lamps help transform the room into a stunning rendition of the Sicilian village where Carmelo grew up- complete with a freestanding wall of glowing cutouts representing homes surrounding an Italian piazza. This room may also be divided in half to accommodate smaller groups on each side.

Main Dining Room The main dining room seats 120-160 at a time with a 1900's antique sideboard as the room's centerpiece. Columns, lamp posts and hanging lamps help transform this room into a stunning rendition of the Sicilian village where Carmelo grew up - complete with a freestanding wall of glowing cutouts representing homes surrounding an Italian piazza.

Baby Wine Room Cozy and intimate for a small group of 8-12, an antique mirror from the early 1900's sets the scene with wines, "Revelers" and Italian ceramics known as "porcellini" or piglets. Their happy, content and satisfied faces set the tone - bringing joy to everyone who sees them.

Wine Room South Tucked in the back of the restaurant, this beautiful wine room seats 20 people. Paintings by one of Carmelo's favorite artists add to the intimate atmosphere.

Piazza Tara Piazza Tara features a wall-to-wall bas-relief collection of buildings recreating the Italian village of Taormini, Sicily, where Carmelo was born.

Piazza Liana The smallest piazza, where clients can view the bar and food display, features a leaning Campanile that announces the time at eleven o'clock every day and the gateless city opens.

Pino Virga Pied Piper of Taormina Music, according to Shakespeare, is the food of love and without live music, a restaurant is not Italian. Accordionist Pino Virga has been performing at the Houston Carmelo’s since the day it opened. Recreating the role of a strolling Italian street musician, he stretches out his accordion to full length, pumps out a jolly solo, and the sound is irresistible. On the island of Sicily, Carmelo and Virga grew up together but never actually met until Carmelo's opened in Houston over twenty five years ago. Pino has been entertaining almost continuously six nights a week - in addition to doing much of the restaurant's upholstery himself!

David Adickes Houston sculptor David Adickes and Carmelo pose with some of the strolling minstrels Adickes created for the Austin restaurant's piazza and fountain. Adickes spent most of his successful artistic career as a painter but in 1983 he made a shift to monumental sculpture. He produced the 76' giant statue in Huntsville of Texas Independence hero Sam Houston, which is the tallest in the world of an American hero. His paintings may be viewed in the Wine Room South and the Tara Room.

Herb Mears The late artist Herb Mears was one of Carmelo's close friends. The world of Herb Mears was romantic - of time, people and places suspended. Mears' work captured landscapes and inhabitants of the spirit rather than the earth. As the mood led him, the artist's colors were bold, primary, forceful, dramatic, subtle, sensitive and reflective. In a moment of exuberance, Mears once said, "In a room without windows, I can paint the world."