T ruluck’s, the often overlooked 33-year-old fresh stone crab restaurant located in the Galleria area, has reopened with spiffy new look. The Houston-born and bred seafood institution with 12 restaurant locations in Texas, Florida and beyond put its Houston original through a multi-million-dollar facelift of sorts late this summer (closing for several months) with interior stylings care of Dallas-based designer Bruce Russo Designs.

Russo’s design directive: create a glamorous interior that evokes the relaxed elegance of dining al fresco in the Mediterranean . In Houston’s newly reopened Truluck’s, olive trees “grow” from floor to ceiling, their limbs forming a canopy over seats poised beneath the treee in the main dining room. New black and white tile flooring underfoot plays up the 88

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