COVA Hand-Selected Wines was chosen as of the top 3 restaurants by
Beatrice Valencia from
002houston
in the November 2008 issue.
“Cova is an enigma: a retail wine shop that’s also a lively
wine bar that’s also a classy if happily casual restaurant…
At Cova,… wines are selected and the menu happens around
them.”
– DeMers, John. “Flights of Fancy: Cova Cooks to Showcase Its
Many Walls of Wine.”
Arts of Houston
. November 2007: 36
“The sophisticated but accessible wine cafés called
Cova… mix savvy vino selection with fun-to-share tapas in tie-off,
shirt-unbuttoned, urban-chic settings. There are no rules in love and
wine – and this place is as perfect for first-date flirting as for
loosening up with an ex.”
– Smail, Debora. “Boom Boom.”
Houston
. June 2007: 105.
Recently recommend by Andrea Afra from
Cuizine: A Taste of Houston
, as a
full wining and dining experience. It is the place for two or a group
of ten, with a wonderful menu designed with every sense in mind.”
– Afra, Andrea.
Cuizine: A Taste of Houston
.
Texas Monthly Magazine
rated COVA Hand-Selected Wines as one of the top
10 new restaurants in Texas for 2006.
COVA was named Pat’s Pick in
Texas Monthly Magazine
in the
November 2005 issue.
“Fast wine-bar turnover, careful temperature control and
well-edited, on-page by-the-glass list that changes weekly ensures that
wines nearly always taste as they were meant to – even the
rarified ones.”
– Cook, Allison. “First, the Wine: At Cova, pairing food and
drink is art, a science.”
Houston Chronicle
. 1 November 2005
Gourmet Magazine named COVA Hand-Selected Wines a neighborhood
gem… a first rate wine bar and exciting global tapas
restaurant…”
–
Gourmet Magazine
. October 2005.