Prime 131

Prime 131 opened in 2024 in Houston's Lazybrook/Timbergrove neighbourhood as a Berg Hospitality Group concept. The live-fire steakhouse and sushi bar puts a wood-burning grill in the middle of the dining room, with a shareable menu spanning prime and wagyu steaks, Japanese sushi and Korean-barbecue tabletop grilling. Recognition came quickly: CultureMap Houston named it one of the city's twelve best new restaurants of 2024, and Houston Press awarded it Best Steakhouse in its 2024 Best of Houston awards, describing a room that evokes the high-energy late-nineties dining scene of New York's Meatpacking District, with an open kitchen showing four wood-fire grills and stadium seating.

For guests skipping alcohol, the bar carries four signature mocktails at roughly $10 to $12 — the same tier as many of the restaurant's classic cocktails. Two are confirmed by name, the Strawberry Rose Refresher and the Kosnopolitan, both of which surface in Houston Dry January round-ups.

The detail worth knowing is that this list is shared across Berg Hospitality's restaurants, appearing identically at sister venue Turner's Cut. That sounds like a corporate shortcut and is in fact an advantage for a non-drinker. A zero-proof menu built by one enthusiastic bartender disappears when that bartender leaves; a list documented and trained across a restaurant group is one where the recipes exist on paper, the ingredients are ordered centrally, and any bartender on shift can make the drink correctly. Consistency is the thing most often missing from non-alcoholic drinks — the same order arriving differently on different nights — and a group programme is the most reliable fix for it.

Prime 131 is not an alcohol-free venue; it runs a full bar and wine list alongside these drinks. But the mocktails are a standing part of the beverage programme rather than a Dry-January-only gesture, which is the distinction that matters when you are booking a table in June.

As of mid-2026 it keeps dinner-only hours, four in the afternoon onward Monday through Saturday and to eleven at weekends, closed Sunday — reflecting a reservation-driven, special-occasion format.