Post up in the Post Oak

Houston has plenty of hotels we love, but none quite so over-the-top as the relatively new Post Oak Hotel, where you can charge a Rolls Royce to your room (there's a dealership on-site) and enjoy artwork by Frank Stella, Donald Sultan, and Robert Motherwell without leaving the hotel. If you don't want to spring for the 5,000-square-foot presidential suite (which comes with two bedrooms, a private elevator, gym, 24-hour butler service, and access to the hotel's helipad), the double rooms have a mini-bar filled with Dean & Deluca snacks, a Nespresso coffee maker, and a marble bathroom with Acqua Di Parma shower goods. Truly, everything is bigger in Texas. Visit the Menil's newest addition

While the Menil Collection's main building has reopened after nearly a year under renovation in September, the 30,000-square-foot Drawing Institute, the museum's newest building, officially opens November 3. As the U.S.'s first free-standing building dedicated exclusively to modern drawing, the institute is dedicating its opening exhibit to American artist Jasper Johns's work, featuring more than 41 drawings across his 60-plus-year career.

Make sure to allow time to see the rest of the complex: The central building has new African, Pacific Islands, Medieval to Early Modern, Arts of the Ancient World, and Surrealist galleries, making it easier than ever to explore specific periods and regions of sculpture, painting, paper work, and more. The museum's Cy Twombly Gallery, dedicated to the painter's epic multiple-panel works and sculptures, a site-specific Dan Flavin installation of fluorescent-light tubes, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, and the Rothko Chapel are also must-sees. (You really could spend all day here.) Grab a steak at Georgia James

Underbelly, from Houston's beloved James Beard Award-winning chef Chris Shepherd, closed in May and we've had to "settle" for one of our favorite Houston bars (and another Shepard special), The Hay Merchant, while Underbelly was under renovation. Now, the space is ready for its full reincarnation as Georgia James, a steakhouse specializing in cast-iron seared steaks and seafood. The much-anticipated concept officially opened in early October.