Bryan Caswell announced today that Stella Sola, his Texan-Tuscan restaurant in the Heights along with partner Bill Floyd, closed its doors on Sunday. The announcement followed months of rumors that St...
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This violently violet cocktail tastes as sweet as it looks -- which is what you get for ordering a champagne cocktail off a serious cocktail menu from a bartender who tells you his preferred drink is ...
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This past Saturday, East End residents celebrated Cinco de Mayo with a block party on Harrisburg -- steps away from where the new East End light rail line will soon be operating.
The street festival,...
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Anthony Bourdain and Paula Deen may currently be the two most diametrically opposed personalities in today's food world. The two have feuded for years, with Bourdain generally accusing Deen of fatteni...
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The banh mi below contains savory strips of filet mignon and comes from a food truck that recently celebrated its one-year anniversary. If that's not a hint enough this week, maybe the name of the san...
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Fed up with Cinco de Mayor Just want to do something different from the rest of the crowd this weekendr
Then head out to the 6th annual Polish Festival this weekend. The two-day festival will take pl...
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So, while I was gone last week, chef Ryan Hildebrand and his investors announced plans to open yet another restaurant only four short months after Triniti opened on Shepherd. Brande, as the new restau...
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You don't have to wait for Cinco de Mayo to enjoy one of the city's favorite cocktails, but it doesn't hurt to have a few in celebration, either. Just remember to toast the Battle of Puebla (after all...
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Don't call it cheating; call it a shortcut.
Very few of us these days have the time or energy to make phyllo dough from scratch or even to simply chop vegetables. And if you're trying to host a nice ...
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It's no secret that Houston is home to some bad-ass burgers. (This makes up for our overall lack of good barbecue, or at least that's what I tell myself to get through the day.)
And since May is Nati...
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You don't need Triple Sec or fancy ingredients to make a good, basic margarita. That's exactly what a good margarita is, after all: basic. If you decided ...
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Dan Fergus, the man who owns Montrose haunt Brasil, has had a lot of complaints lobbed at him over the years. Most of them involve paying customers attempting to linger at their tables during or after...
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I appear to have unconsciously started a yearly tradition for myself: Discovering terrific Italian food in or near The Woodlands every spring.
Last April, it was Capri Pasta Pizza & More, a wonderful...
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Houston Burgers: This burger blog has been dormant for a few months, but a brand-new post popped up in my Google Reader today -- and just in time for baseball season. This week, Darrell reviewed the n...
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So, this past weekend I went to Las Vegas and celebrated the wedding of two very dear friends with a bunch of my very best friends (including one who was Skyped into the ceremony from Turkey) and wore...
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On the busy corner of Wheeler and Almeda sits Green Seed Vegan's new restaurant. It's only a few short blocks away from the original cabbage-green food truck where Matti Merrell and her husband Rodney...
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What's thatr You can barely see the coffee in this Where Are We Drinking postr No matter; it's the tacos that are the tell this week. The chorizo taco with green salsa on a homemade tortilla comes fro...
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By the time you read this, I will be on a plane home to Houston from Las Vegas, where I will have hopefully won $1,000,000 off a nickel slot machine and eaten at the Wicked Spoon -- which, from what I...
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"The original chef of this restaurant is back and the food is amazing!" wrote the photographer who took this photo of chili fried fish at a popular Sichuan restaurant right in the busy heart of Chinat...
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As May approaches, more Cinco de Mayo events are announced every day. Here are a few of our favorites.
La Mexicana in Montrose is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. And while the restaurant ...
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In the grand tradition of giving both good and bad news, the bad comes first this week.
Both locations of Cova Hand-Selected Wines closed after service this past Sunday. In an interesting side note, ...
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I love iFest so much, I typically go on both weekends of the festival each year. This time around, I'll be missing the second weekend of the International Festival in favor of appearing in a bright bl...
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I think it goes without saying that last year's Haute Wheels food truck festival was rather disastrous. It was almost unbearably hot, there was very little shade to be found, some food trucks were run...
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Although it's not set to open until October, City Acre Brewing -- the soon-to-be brewpub on Highway 59 between Tidwell and Parker -- is already drawing huge crowds.
They were out in force this past S...
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There's only one really bad thing about the anti-clotting pill Pradaxa. You can't fall or get cut while taking it because once you start bleeding, there's almost no way to stop it. There's no reversal agent, no antidote.
There's no gloves or batting helmets when Larry Joe Miggins and the rest of the Houston Babies regularly travel back in time to play the game by its 1860 rules.
