Arturo Boada

The Pho-ndamentals

A beginner's guide to Vietnamese cuisine.

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Bistros

How do you define a bistro? If you're going to stick to the traditional Parisian definition, a bistro (or bistrot) is a small, tidy restaurant that serves inexpensive wine and simple dishes in a modest price range. Those dishes are traditionally French "comfort food" recipes like coq au vin, boeuf ... More >>

Eating Our Hearts Out

100 Favorite dishes in the Bayou City

All 52 Restaurant Reviews of 2012, Broken Down and Mapped Out

View 2012 Restaurant Reviews in a larger map. In 2012, I reviewed 50 restaurants. Jeremy Parzen and Mai Pham graciously stepped in when I went on vacation two weeks, filling in for me and each writing a full restaurant review of their own. Together, the three of us wrote one restaurant review for e ... More >>

The Rest of the Best

Houston's top 10 pizzas.

10 Dishes We're Excited About on Houston Restaurants' New Fall Menus

Roost Bistro is one of the restaurants with an exciting fall menu. Fall means looking forward to more than just oyster season, chili cook-offs and pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks. It means that plenty of our favorite restaurants (and, yes, bars too) across the city are issuing new seasonal menus ... More >>

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Pizza

For the next 20 weeks, we'll be rounding up the runners-up to our 2012 Best of Houston® winners. In many categories, picking each year's winner is no easy task. We'll be spotlighting 20 of those categories, in which the winner had hefty competition from other Houston bars and restaurants. Earlier ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes 2012: No. 11, Camarones Henesy en Hamaca at Arturo Boada Cuisine

This year leading up to our annual Best of Houston® issue, we're counting down our 100 favorite dishes in Houston. This list comprises our favorite dishes from the last year, dishes that are essential to Houston's cultural landscape and/or dishes that any visitor (or resident) should try at least o ... More >>

Handicapping Houston Restaurant Week: Your Guide to the Best Deals and Meals

UPDATE: In grand Houston Restaurant Weeks tradition (which used to be just "Houston Restaurant Week," no plural at the end), HRW has been extended once again this year. The month-long dining-for-charity eatstravaganza will run through Labor Day weekend. The last day to get your $20 lunches and $35 d ... More >>

Aquiles en Houston in Real Life at La Fisheria

Houston has hosted its share of reality television shows, from Animal Cops (which I can't bear to watch even a single episode of) to the currently-filming Mother of the Bride. And we've also seen shows such as Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Eat St. and Meat & Potatoes come through to film our restaura ... More >>

He's Still Got It

Arturo Boada is turning out lovely pizzas and tapas at his namesake Memorial Villages restaurant.

A Carnivore's Paradise

Bring your own wine, order the parrillada and enjoy a civil bacchanalia at Pampa Grill.

La Fisheria Opens Tomorrow as Houston Welcomes a Mexican Celebrity Chef to the City

Most Americans wouldn't know chef Aquiles Chávez if they saw him on the street, even with his trademark handlebar mustache and Jack Sparrow-style dreadlocks tucked under a straw hat. But ask anyone in Latin America about Chávez and they'll immediately grin and say, "El hombre con el bigote!" as t ... More >>

Openings & Closings: April 2011

Photo by lc_dbKing Biscuit was one of the many restaurants to close over the past week.​After a quiet few weeks, a rash of openings, delays and unexpected closings tore through the city this past week, starting with the news that Austin's "sexy Tex-Mex" import Vivo is not coming to San Felipe ... More >>

Openings & Closings: February 2011

A plate of nigirizushi at Blue Fish.​As we showed you in our sneak peek earlier this week, The Blue Fish is now open at Bayou Place downtown. The Dallas-based sushi bar will also open a second Houston location in a few months next door to benjy's on Washington Avenue., where a new build-out is ... More >>

Mamma Mia

Sonia's ravioli stuffed with chicken and mushrooms at Arturo's.

Banana Hammock

Beso

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Mojito

Best Tuna This Side of the Atlantic

Solero's yellowfin tuna Mediterranean

The Great Restaurant Sale

Detoured downtown becomes a buyer's market

Run Out on a Rail

Metro's light-rail construction has some businesses already pulling out of the station

Stirred and Shaken

Solero's Berryrita

Today's Horoscope

You'll meet a creative Aries who will shake up your traditional ideas

Promising Patios

Restaurants heed the call of the great outdoors

Eats for the Beach

Sabroso Grill offers tastes from the tropics

Dish

Dish

To the Tapas

At Solero, small things add up to quite a lot

Pasta Tense

A tale of twin take-outs that were (almost) family

Diner's Notebook

Pub Grub? No Flub

The hometown entry in the Richmond brewpub battle fights with good food