The Houston Press 1993 Menu from Hell

Abandon all hope, all ye who swallow here

Comments (0) Thursday, Dec 30 1993

When the damned gather for New Year's Eve Chez Lucifer, I suggest they dine on this guaranteed true-to-life banquet culled from actual Houston menus, vintage 1993. Surely we must take perverse civic pride that our enterprising local chefs have devised an assortment of dishes so silly, misbegotten, infelicitously named or otherwise hideous-sounding; even the terrifyingly inventive chefs of Los Angeles or Dallas would be hard put to surpass this fiendishly festive IcarteI. And where else, pray tell, would a bistro feature the disconcerting likes of a beef dish christened after a diabolically meddlesome, hellaciously uncosmetic private dick?

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The Cockpit Bar & Grill

8101 Airport Blvd.
Houston, TX 77061

Category: Restaurant >

Region: Outer Loop - SE

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The Houston Press makes no representations as to the edibility of said dishes: They may be every bit as palatable as the tofu-skin salad touted in these very pages not long ago. But weÕll never know, will we? Because to encounter these menu offerings is to snigger helplessly, lose one's appetite or experience a powerful urge to flee. In such circumstances, are we likely to do as the name of an actual dish from the Gulf Freeway's Bombay Oven commands us, and ÒTrust the Chef"? No way.

Before toasting our winners, tribute must be paid to the entire menu from LupeÕs Tortillas, an infernally irritating document rendered in pseudo-Tex Mex dialect. To wit: "Cheekin Lupe"; "Beeg Sucker Burrito"; ÒServes four hongry gringosÓ; etc. ad nauseam. Truly a menu from hell, Highway 6-style. Bravo, beeg suckers! Bravo, too, to our favorite Superfund site for producing the 1993 home chef's dish from hell: "Clear Creek Fisherman's Special -- Poisson Dangereux a la Brio Oil Refinery." Yum.

And see you in court.

Herewith, discerning readers, the year's hellish bill of fare. I solicit your suggestions for 1994 with morbid anticipation. Meanwhile, bon appetit.

Shish-Ka-Billy-Bob with Pango Pango sauce
Lake Longhorn Grill

Federal Express Burger
Cockpit Grill

Pork Caramel
Blue Orchid Viet-Thai

Casserole of Charred Mixed Vegetables
La Mer (R.I.P.)

World Trade Center Sandwich
Gugenheim's

Seafood Love Boat Sizzled over Rice Crispies
China Station

Steak Clyde Wilson
Cafe Elegante

Saltimbocca a la Mussolini
Cavatore

Roast Pork Ends
Auntie Chang's Dumpling House

Mexi-Skins
Taste of Texas