‘On a night when we have three or four bands on, they’ll bring all their friends, all their communities,’ says the Baso’s owner, Mik Bergensen, pictured here with his wife, Nicole. Photograph: Teagan ...

Baso is a rarity in Houston. The Heights restaurant is stripped bare and serves Basque-Nordic-Japanese catnip for the Noma crowd, each plate of pil-pil-oil-this and pistachio-layered-that parading out ...