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The Pho-ndamentals

A beginner's guide to Vietnamese cuisine.

Openings & Closings: Renovated Restaurants and Born-Again Bars

It was a busy week for openings, so we'll kick things off this Friday with some happy news. Eleven XI, the new restaurant helmed by chef Kevin Bryant, opened this past Tuesday night...and it already has three Yelp reviews. The location at 607 West Gray had to be extensively renovated to turn the f ... More >>

Cafe Adobe Closes Its Montrose Location This Sunday; Readers Share Their Memories

There was a period of time when going to the massive, two-story Cafe Adobe complex at Westheimer and Shepherd meant devoting at least three hours of your day -- if not more -- in near-prostrate devotion to its super-strong margaritas and sprawling rooftop patio. Although those days are past for me, ... More >>

Celebrate National Margarita Day Today with 15 of Our Favorites

For whatever reason, some marketing genius decided that February 22 is National Margarita Day. I can't figure out what significance this day has to margaritas or tequila or Triple Sec or limes. Even the National Margarita Day's web page offers no clues as to why February 22 is so important, leaving ... More >>

Councilwoman Helena Brown Is A Self-Made Video Star, Of Sorts

When Hair Balls first cast about for reasons behind Houston Woman Magazine's selection of Helena Brown as one of Houston's "50 Most Influential Women" earlier this month, the only thing we could come away with was a statement from Brown's office. According to the councilwoman's coterie, her selectio ... More >>

Top 5 Low-Cal Margaritas To Try in Houston

In the spirit of a healthy start to the New Year, I'm trying to cut back on excessively sugary beverages. My biggest weakness is margaritas at mainstream bars and restaurants, which tend to use high-calorie commercial mixers. Thankfully, many Houston establishments have jumped on the skinny cocktail ... More >>

Patent Law: The New Cold War

On the frontlines of the costliest battle in the high-tech world.

The Rest of the Best

Houston's top 10 sushi restaurants.

Openings & Closings: Cafe Adobe Closing and Downtown Blind Items

It looks like EaDo is getting more gentrified by the day, as one of our readers sent in pictures of TABC notices for Walker Street Gastropub, set to take over the old Cafe Shoppe place at 2016 Walker. A banh mi shop replaced by a gastropub? The old Chinatown has truly changed. Another old spot will ... More >>

Health Department Roundup: The Texans Grille, Tony's, Falafel Frenzy, Teotihuacan and More

Before we opened the report for the Houston Texans Grille (12848 Queensbury), we decided the inspection result would predict the team's fate in the coming season. This method has literally never failed, or succeeded. If it turns out to be an ineffective predictor, though, we promise to name our firs ... More >>

Alternatives to Five of the Pricier Software Titles

The Business Software Alliance announced last week that it had come to an agreement with local business Affordable Power, LP, to settle legal claims that the company pirated software titles. According to the release: As part of the settlement, Affordable Power agreed to pay $150,000 to settle legal ... More >>

iCan't: 4 Reasons Why Even the iPad 3 Won't Cause Me to Buy One

In April of last year, I wrote about whether I should buy an iPad. After a few musing paragraphs, I came to the begrudging conclusion that the iPad was likely part of my technological future. Well, it's nearly a year later and still no iPad for me. With the release of the iPad 3 tomorrow (and a prob ... More >>

Jose Cuervo Light Margarita

As you might have inferred from recent posts, I have been spending a lot more time in Alexandria, Virginia while my husband finishes a temporary job. With no teaching responsibilities this semester, my schedule has been much more flexible; it's been an exercise in self-discipline to write during th ... More >>

DEFCON Dining: Cafe Adobe

DEFCON Dining isn't always about dealing with the kids' tenuous grip on civility. At least not directly. Sometimes, it's just a matter of parental weariness, or adult surliness, and the need to go somewhere the kids won't mind, and where we won't be required to be on our best behavior. Take, for e ... More >>

Wanted: $100 Music Video From Emmy Winner

​Rocks Off likes to troll the musicians section of Craigslist in an effort to catch interesting acts at their very inception. Usually we get the same old thing day in and day out: Need FOC (Friend of Christ) bass player for worship band. Must have ride. 18 SERIOUS singer looking for band. Ma ... More >>

Houston's Top 11 Margaritas for National Margarita Day

Photo by Eric HesterThe winter spiced margarita at Ninfa's on Navigation.​Tomorrow is National Margarita Day. (Yes, much like International Hot & Spicy Food Day, it's a thing.) And although it'll be cloudy most of the day tomorrow, the sun should come out right around happy hour time, and wit ... More >>

Health. Dept. Roundup

​Don't complain about your adobe -- you'll wind up getting re-inspected on Health Department Roundup. Forgive for the Mad Libs. Let's get to this week's rundown: A complaint at Murphy's Deli (16536 Park Row) forced an August 17 inspection, during which the inspector found an employee not rest ... More >>

Bobby Heugel's Weekly Cocktail: The Margarita

​Nobody wants to talk about margaritas on May 6, the day after Cinco de Mayo. However, rather than avoiding discussing the source of the dreaded May 6 hangover, we thought we'd confront the Tex-Mex monster head-on. You can almost smell the lingering stench of artificial margarita mixes and poo ... More >>

It's Five O'clock Somewhere

We scout out happy hour in Houston.

Houston Happy Hours: Don't Go Out Un-Guided Or Un-Apped

Photos by Bryan WilliamsHappy hour is a good thing in the upstairs bar at Benjy's on Washington.​Happy hour in Houston can be a strange thing. Michelle Cowden, a bartender at Washington Avenue's Sawyer Park, told us recently, "I don't really do happy hours. I've probably only been to one in m ... More >>

Great Moments In Political Debate, La Marque Style

​You can have your Daniel Webster rising in the Senate to give his storied Second Reply to Hayne; the La Marque City Council has set the bar for legislative contemplation far, far higher with its epochal Argument Over A Past-Due Library Book.As noted in the Galveston County Daily News, the ever-sq ... More >>

Food Fight: Battle Cheese Enchilada

Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​"Cheese enchiladas served in chili con carne -- not thin, meatless chili gravy, or authentic enchilada sauce -- are the hallmark of real Tex-Mex, according to 78-year-old Fort Worth sportswriter and Tex-Mex expert Dan Jenkins," as Robb Walsh stated in his July 2 ... More >>

Readers loved the tale of José & Magdalena...

...the overrated restaurants list, not so much.

Health Department Roundup: Hyperlink Edition

This week's hall of health-code-violating shame includes restaurants previously reviewed, mentioned, discussed or otherwise examined in the Houston Press. Back in September 2004, Press food critic Robb Walsh said to forget about the then-ubiquitous South Beach bitch of a diet and eat up at The Sac ... More >>

Veggie Heaven

Farmers' markets take over Houston.

La Comida Mas Fina Para Cinco De Mayo

Photo by CC ChapmanEven if you're a bit rusty on your high school Spanish, at least one thing should be gleaned from that headline: Cinco de Mayo is right around the corner! Despite the fact that the holiday is largely unobserved in Mexico and does not -- as is commonly and erroneously assume ... More >>

CAFE ADOBE'S EL PATRÓN

Andrea Lazar’s Passionate Picks

Andrea Lazar’s Passionate Picks

The Sole of Houston

Hi. I'm John Lomax, and I'm a pedestrian. My friend, Uncle Tick, and I walked down 16-plus miles of Westheimer. This is our story.

Gator Aid

Thanks to the Endangered Species Act, alligators are everywhere in southeast Texas. So now the state is going to make it easier for you to shoot you one.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Happy Hour

Let's Get Nuts

The Nightfly and his twin land at the Marq*E and win a free trip to Vegas

Non Mall Shopping Adventures

Shopping adventures

Can You Say Adobe?

Cafe Adobe

Best Margarita

Cafe Adobe

Booze in a Blender

Two-Tone Tonic

Listen In

Hollisters, Bo Patt, Hadden Sayers Band, and Tom Cummings Quartet

Dinner and a Movie

Local Restaurant News

Rotation

The Dallas Version

At Mesa: A Taste of Santa Fe, there's a whole lotta trendiness going on