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Dining
June 13, 2013
An MF Perfect Nigiri: Trust the Chef at MF Sushi
Sushi Chef Chris Kinjo offers exotic fish, delicious sashimi and some of the best nigiri sushi in town.
Blogs
June 12, 2013
Sushi Rice and the Omakase at MF Sushi
For me, eating sushi -- enjoying sushi -- used to be measured by the quality of the fish. As I've come to learn more about sushi, however, I now understand that you can't measure the quality of sushi on the fish alone. In fact, the critical component in all forms of sushi is seasoned rice -- whether ... More >>
Blogs
June 7, 2013
Chef Chat, Part 3: Matt Pak of Koagie Hots, and His Gourmet Korean-ized Food Truck Fare
This is the third part of a three-part chef chat series. If you missed the first parts, you can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. This week, we chatted with 28-year-old Matt Pak, a self-trained chef who had worked up the kitchen ranks since the age of 15. Like many young chef-entrepreneurs around t ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2013
The Ultimate Trip to Japan with Carl Rosa
Sushi Club of Houston President Carl Rosa has taken Houstonians to Japan since 2007. Rosa takes three groups throughout the year to visit the beautiful land of Japan, tour areas you won't find in a typical traveler's guidebook and taste the best cuisine Japan has to offer. In August, a group of 16 ... More >>
Blogs
June 5, 2013
Chef Chat, Part 1: Matt Pak of Koagie Hots and the Golden Grill Food Trucks, on the Korean Tapas Restaurant He Would Have Opened
This is the first part of a three-part Chef Chat series. Parts two and three will run in this same space on Thursday and Friday. Korean food is full of flavor and texture, its tastiness so addictive that it brought national attention to LA's @kogibbq truck, whose claim to fame was Korean barbecue-s ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2013
Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Cuisine (That's Not Sushi or Ramen)
Although it's all the craze lately, ramen is just one of the soups you'll find in Japanese cuisine. And although you'll find sushi everywhere these days -- from gas stations to grocery stores -- there's more to Japanese food than raw fish and rice. And while Houston may have far fewer Japanese rest ... More >>
Dining
May 16, 2013
The Pho-ndamentals
A beginner's guide to Vietnamese cuisine.
Dining
May 2, 2013
Hot to Trot
Houston's 10 best spots for a first date.
Blogs
May 2, 2013
Pho Binh by Night by Blacksmith: Pho Pop-Up Hits Montrose
The Pho Binh family of restaurants offers what's often called the best pho in Houston, but they can also be a bit of a drive. The original Pho Binh sits in a trailer down in far south Houston, while its newer sister restaurant -- Pho Binh by Night -- is in the western reaches of Chinatown (which its ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2013
The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 "Classic" Food Trucks
What differentiates a "classic" food truck from those on last week's list of Houston's Top 10 "Fancy" Food Trucks? For starters, a classic food truck has been around for at least a few years prior to the gourmet food truck craze -- if not a decade longer. Classic food trucks are usually found at th ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2013
A Newbie's Guide to Eating Ramen, with Sushi Club of Houston Founder Carl Rosa
If you've been keeping up with the Houston happenings in Japanese cuisine, you will notice that ramen dishes are popping up all over the place. Carl Rosa, founder of the Sushi Club of Houston, started the Ramen in Common group less than one month ago as a response to ramen's new high-profile status ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2013
What's Cooking This Week? Pork Meatball Banh Mi, Cauliflower Fried Rice and More
I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredient's I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>
Dining
April 4, 2013
Here, Eat This
A beginner's guide to Korean cuisine.
Blogs
April 1, 2013
VIDEO: Can This Man Beat the "Unbeatable" LA Crawfish Challenge?
At last count, only three people had tackled the spicy crawfish pho challenge at LA Crawfish -- and all three had failed. My friend Tucker O'Bannon was determined to be the fourth challenger, and the first winner. Tucker eats ghost peppers like potato chips. He finishes large bowls of pho in five m ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2013
Chef Chat, Part 3: Trong Nguyen of Crawfish and Noodles, Crawfish and Classic Vietnamese All Under One Roof
This is the third part of a three-part Chef Chat series. If you missed our previous posts, you can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. This week, we got to know the chef and owner of Crawfish and Noodles, Trong Nguyen. We learned how he struggled to maintain the restaurant while holding down a full-t ... More >>
Dining
March 28, 2013
Here, Eat This
A beginner's guide to Indian cuisine.
Dining
March 28, 2013
Eatsie Boys Go Brick-and-Mortar
Eatsie Boys still runs catering out of its food truck, but with a restaurant homebase now it can do so much more.
Blogs
March 27, 2013
The Eatsie Boys Cafe: As Colorful As the Characters Who Run It
Every once in a while, I'll visit a place that's too colorful to simply paint with words. The Eatsie Boys Cafe -- the new brick-and-mortar outgrowth of the original Eatsie Boys food truck -- is one such spot. It's also the subject of this week's cafe review, which means that our talented photograph ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2013
Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to Korean Cuisine
To say that Koreans like beef is an understatement. To say that Koreans love their beef as much as Texans do is getting closer. South Koreans eat about 20 pounds of beef per person year, and although that number is much lower than the average U.S. consumption of 60 pounds per person, it's a number t ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2013
Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to Indian Cuisine
Say you've decided to be spontaneous and embark on a new culinary adventure, sampling a brand new cuisine for the very first time. Good for you! You deserve a virtual high five. But what do you order? This is a common concern among people who've either decided to try something new or are outright a ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2013
Chef Chat, Part 2: Hoi Fung of Fung's Kitchen, On the Evolution of Chop Suey, Where He Takes Visiting Chefs for a Good Steak, and Serving Fresh Peking Duck at Banquets
This is part two of a three-part Chef Chat series. You can read Part 1 here and Part 3 in this same space Friday. EOW: You came you Houston in 1982, but you didn't open your first restaurant until 1990. How come? HF: Because I worked in the Golden China restaurant in the Sharpstown area. EOW: Tel ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2013
Chef Chat, Part 1: Hoi Fung of Fung's Kitchen, On Starting Out as a Cook in Hong Kong Before Coming to America to Make a New Life
This is the first part of a three part Chef Chat series. Parts 2 and 3 will run in this same space on Thursday and Friday. Fung's Kitchen is a veritable Chinese food institution in Houston. Past host to President Bush senior, the Queen of Thailand, and the Imperial Family of Japan, it is the go-to ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2013
Chef Chat, Part 3: Chris Kinjo of MF Sushi and What He'll Give You if You Order the Omakase
This is the 3rd part of a three-part Chef Chat series. If you missed the previous posts, you can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. This week, we chatted with Chris Kinjo of MF Sushi, a chef who has worked in countless restaurants, owned a few of his own, achieved fame and glory, and paid the price ... More >>
Dining
January 31, 2013
Eastbound and Downtown
The top 10 restaurants in EaDo.
Blogs
January 31, 2013
Chef Chat, Part 2: Chris Kinjo of MF Sushi, on Working in More Than 30 Restaurants, the Problem with Fake Fish and Old-School Japanese Sushi
This is part 2 of a three part Chef Chat series. You can read Part 1 here if you missed it. Look for Part 3 in this same space Friday. EOW: What was your first job as a sushi chef? CK: My first was at Sushi Muto in Santa Ana, California -- it's not there anymore. The sushi master there was a cer ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2013
Chef Chat, Part 1: Chris Kinjo of MF Sushi, On the Meaning of MF, Creating Perfect Nigiri, and His Favorite Fish Family
Chris Kinjo MF Sushi 5887 Westheimer Road Tel: 832-530-4321 mfsushihouston.com This is Part 1 of a three-part Chef Chat series. Check back with us for Parts 2 and 3, which will run in this same space Thursday and Friday. Just outside the Galleria on Westheimer near Fountainview, in a strip mall ov ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2013
Top 10 Restaurants in EaDo (a.k.a. Old Chinatown, a.k.a. East Downtown)
So you're not comfortable with the EaDo sobriquet. I don't care. The damn thing has stuck. It's short, easy and to-the-point. (Besides, the more important question is what to call that weird DMZ area on South Shepherd that's not quite Montrose, not quite Upper Kirby, not quite River Oaks and not qui ... More >>
Dining
January 10, 2013
Do the Curry Crawl
The top 10 restaurants in Little India.
Dining
January 10, 2013
Raw Materials at Cove
The raw fish and raw meat here are so delicately and deliciously rendered, you might think about giving up on the whole fire thing.
Blogs
January 10, 2013
Where the Chefs Eat: Christine Ha and Alvin Schultz
This week, our Where The Chefs Eat series turns to two amateur chefs turned television reality stars: Christine Ha and Alvin Schultz. Both living in Houston and Vietnamese by descent, they each snagged a spot on the TV reality show, MasterChef. Schultz, who was featured on Season 2, is known for ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2013
First Look at Michiru Sushi: Affordable Luxury in Greenway Plaza
Michiru Sushi is the other high-profile sushi restaurant which opened recently, not to be confused with Chris Kinjo's MF Sushi on Westheimer. I haven't been to MF Sushi yet, and I'm keen to dine there. Although reviews so far have been mixed, one thing has been noted across the board: MF Sushi is qu ... More >>
Blogs
January 8, 2013
Attention Pregnant Women: You CAN Eat Sushi
As we all know, pregnant women typically abstain from certain foods throughout their pregnancy -- specifically, foods which could harm a growing fetus. Many types of fish, for example, have high levels of mercury -- which can cause a liver infection in a pregnant woman -- while others foods, such as ... More >>
Blogs
January 8, 2013
Overlooking the Cheese Factor at Nam: Noodles and More
When some of the best pho in town is served inside a trailer on the southeast side, and when you have to travel into the heart of Houston's "Chinatown" to get the best Vietnamese in the city, it's hard to take a place like Nam: Noodles and More seriously. It is, after all, located in a strip cente ... More >>
Blogs
January 1, 2013
Top 10 Restaurants in Houston's Little India
As we enter the new year, I'm trying to make good on a few resolutions starting on the very first day of 2013. And one of those is to get outside the Loop a bit more -- even though a great bounty of amazing restaurants have opened inside the Loop in the last 12 months -- and back to exploring the re ... More >>
Blogs
December 25, 2012
Top 10 Restaurants in Chinatown
"You're going to do a top 10 Chinatown list, aren't you?" a reader implored last week on Twitter. Of course -- Chinatown is my favorite neighborhood for dining and exploration in the entire city. For every old favorite you visit, you're guaranteed to find at least two new restaurants to fall in love ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2012
First Look at the Eatsie Boys Cafe and Its Matzah Ball Pho
Why hadn't it ever occurred to me to drop matzah balls in pho before? I mused to myself as I sat mesmerized by the giant, stainless steel mug of matzah ball pho sitting in front of me at the new Eatsie Boys Cafe yesterday morning. The pairing is almost a natural, when you think about it: the fatty-s ... More >>
Blogs
December 3, 2012
Acclaimed Chef Chris Kinjo Opening MF Sushi in Houston This Week
When sushi chef Chris Kenjo opened MF Buckhead in Atlanta in 2007 with his brother, Alex, the restaurant was a swift success. The hometown daily -- the Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- gave it a five-star review (but good luck finding it on the Journal-Constitution's Web site, easily one of the wors ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2012
An Amy's Kitchen Obsession Continues with Indian Wraps
Within the last few months, a certain Houston Press food critic posted a photo of an Amy's Kitchen wrap to her Facebook page. This particular photo caught my eye because the wrap in question was not the usual burrito, but an "Indian wrap." As an Amy's devotee and lover of Indian food, I was immediat ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2012
First Look at Kurry Walah
Chef Nirman Shah, a native of Jaipur, has an interesting connection to Houston despite only arriving very recently: Shah opened the first U.S. location of Indian bakery chain Hot Breads in Edison, New Jersey. There are only two other American locations of the wildly popular Indian bakery; one of the ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2012
Tony Makes Some Authentic Thai
When we talk about Thai food in Houston, people generally point to Vieng Thai or Asia Market. Everyone seems to overlook the Thai food out on Bellaire Boulevard, which, while not as ubiquitous as Chinese or Vietnamese, can definitely be found. One of my favorites has been Tony Thai, not only becaus ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2012
Where Are We Eating? Clue: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Although this sushi joint didn't make our recent list of Houston's 10 Best Sushi Restaurants, it's still one of my personal favorites. One of the reasons is the casual patio, and another is the creativity shown in rolls like the rainbow roll. This traditional roll is served in a straightforward mann ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2012
The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Sushi
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. It wasn' ... More >>
Dining
September 27, 2012
Quite Njoyable
Montrose gets a new "comfort" Thai restaurant.
Blogs
September 14, 2012
National Rice Month: Shrimp Biryani at Khyber Indian Restaurant
September is National Rice Month, and in honor of this glorious grain, I've decided to cook and sample a few rice dishes in and around Houston. I first tried biryani when I was traveling in Andhra Pradesh, whose capital Hyderabad is especially famous for a certain variant of the dish. Biryani is t ... More >>
Dining
September 6, 2012
Uchi Takes Houston
Both high-end and accessible, Uchi moves into Montrose and changes the game.
Dining
August 30, 2012
Paneer on Bombay Pizza
If you haven't tried it yet, you're missing out.
Blogs
August 23, 2012
Where Does This Indian Eat Indian? India's Restaurant
No clue what a dahi papdi is? Aloo gobi or vindaloo? Wondering what the hell a paneer tikka is? I'm Indian, and I don't even know what's in chicken 65. Or jalfrezi. Indian food can seem wildly exotic, and sometimes mysteriously unappealing, just like the jolting aromas, loudly chaotic streets ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2012
Show Me the Curry From The Woodlands
Love Indian food? Have an Indian food cookbook? Want to cook it at home, but it just all seems too complicated? There are two women in The Woodlands who would love to show you how to make everything Indian and more. ShowMeTheCurry.com is an online cooking show with videos of every single recipe they ... More >>
Dining
August 9, 2012
Quite a Show at Sushi Tora
The sushi is good, and the spectacle great.
Blogs
August 1, 2012
Tunnel Explorer: Deli Deluxe
I do most of my tunnel exploring blind. Figuratively. Though the low light is beginning to take its toll. What I mean is, I typically just stumble around down there until something looks interesting, or until I've walked far enough that my breadcrumbs are nearly used up. The thought of getting turne ... More >>
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