Chef Duo, Savor & Sage

Founded in 2024 by chefs Babajide and Celine — a husband-and-wife duo whose culinary odyssey spans Paris, London, and Lagos — Savor & Sage is the realization of a shared dining dream.

Celine, a French-baking maestro and graduate of Le Cordon Bleu, brings precision-oriented slow braises and pastry craft. Babajide, raised on smoked ancestral woodfires, brings an unmatched instinctive wisdom of local West African roots, grains, and peppers like alligator pepper, locust bean, and uziza.

"We didn't want to just create another continental steakhouse," says Chef Babajide. "We wanted to curate a cozy sanctuary in Houston where authentic Nigerian culinary heritage is treated with the rigorous, classical techniques it deserves. A plate where a caramelized Chin Chin crust sits underneath vanilla bean cheesecake, and smoked Jollof rice is elevated into a rich, velvety Italian risotto."