Brazos Restaurant at the Crowne Plaza Hotel

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The Scene – With culinary successes like Riviera Grill and La Reserve, one could get downright spoiled dining in Houston hotels. But Brazos, in the Crowne Plaza (formerly the Whitehall, a 1960s atrium-style hotel), fits more into the typical business hotel restaurant genre. Expect a busy after-work bar scene and a sparsely populated, dim dining room of fiftysomethings dressed in business casual. Secluded and informal, it's handsome in an institutional way. – – The Food – Buzz past starters that read well (crab-stuffed calamari) but taste tired. Lunch, too, with club…