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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 27, 2013
Chef Chat, Part 1: Trong Nguyen of Crawfish and Noodles, On Leaving a Successful Career To Become Chef at His Restaurant
This is the first part of a three-part chef chat series. Come back to read parts two and three, which will run in this same space on Thursday and Friday. It's taken me years to find Crawfish and Noodles. I've seen it, driven by it, heard about it, read about it, and have been meaning to try it at ... 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 26, 2013
Gatlin's BBQ, Eatsie Boys, Latin Bites and More Restaurants on Board for 2013 Menu of Menus
More of your favorite Houston restaurants are coming on board for Menu of Menus every day -- and maybe even some that will be your new favorites after you sample their grub at our grand tasting event on Tuesday, April 9. Since we're carefully curating the selection of restaurants this year, I'm ple ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2013
Top 10 Bars, Clubs & Ice Houses In Greater Heights
As our sister blog Eating Our Words does, from time to time Rocks Off will be giving your our picks for the top taverns in various Houston-area neighborhoods. Of course the lines can be porous, but here anything with a TABC license that can not reasonably be considered either a restaurant or a live- ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2013
Clumsy Butcher: Bobby Heugel and Company Announce New Restaurant Group and New Downtown Tequila Bar
It was bound to happen. After opening so many concepts in only four years -- and taking over operations of two other longtime Houston institutions -- Bobby Heugel, Kevin Floyd and Michael Burnett have announced the creation of restaurant group Clumsy Butcher to hem everything into one tidy package. ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2013
Pie With Your Brews: The 5 Best Bar Pizzas
Responsible drinking is important. It's imperative to always have a designated driver, know when you've had a few too many and make sure you're at a bar that bakes a good pizza to soak up that premium booze. Fortunately, crave-worthy post-drink pies abound in this city. And although the line betwe ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2013
Openings & Closings: Saint Arnold for Lunch, Goro & Gun for Dinner
A happy Friday morning comes with some happy news from around the city. First is the announcement that Goro & Gun -- the hotly awaited downtown ramen shop on Main Street -- will officially be open for business today at 4 p.m. Goro & Gun is only serving dinner for now, but lunch looks to be in its fu ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2013
The Top 5 Things to Eat, Drink or Celebrate This Weekend: Revival Market, Anvil, Sonoma Brunch, Hotel Derek's Early Easter & Ninfa's Crawfish
In case your weekend doesn't revolve around the parking lot full of food trucks at Haute Wheels or all-you-can-eat brisket at the Houston Barbecue Festival, here are five other great things to eat, drink or do this weekend. Revival Market's two-year anniversary party Saturday, 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. 550 ... More >>
Dining
March 21, 2013
So Delicious, a Caveman Could Eat It
Paleo-friendly restaurant menus abound in Houston.
Blogs
March 20, 2013
Where To Brunch on Easter Sunday 2013
From holiday classics like the Easter bunny and roast leg of lamb to Mexican-style brunch buffets and live bands, here's where to eat this Easter:
Blogs
March 19, 2013
The Eating...Our Words 100: Yilmaz "Jim" and Deanna Dukuyucu, Husband-and-Wife Owners of Turquoise Grill
Who they are: Turquoise Grill has received many awards for its Turkish cuisine over the years. It was chosen as the Best Mediterranean in Houston by the Houston A List and was recently named as one of the top 10 restaurants in the Upper Kirby area here at Eating...Our Words. Owner Yilmaz "Jim" Dok ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2013
First Look at the Second Location of Hollister Grill, a New Direction for a Spring Branch Standard
As the club scene along Washington Avenue fades into obscurity, I've been glad to see that the restaurant scene has done the exact opposite. Stalwarts such as Laredo Taqueria and Los Dos Amigos have remained in business while pioneers like Max's Wine Dive and Molina's -- two of the first "new" rest ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2013
An Emotionally Exhausting "Executive Lunch" at The Grove
Whether you are a typical office worker with a strict 60-minute lunch break or a lady who lunches, executive lunches are an excellent mid-day meal option. Simply put, they're quick and easy and usually designed to give you a decent amount of bang for your buck. In this series, we explore executive l ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2013
Openings & Closings: Coltivare Trying to Cultivate Community Support
Two new establishments looking to make a positive impact in the Heights have been stymied by the same foe in the last few months: variance request issues. Both the upcoming Coltivare from Revival Market team Morgan Weber and Ryan Pera as well as the under-construction brewery Town in City Brewing wa ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2013
Upcoming Events: Get Your Meat at the Houston Barbecue Festival and Your Veg at Brennan's
If you haven't had a chance to check out the new Frank's Americana Revival yet, next Friday, March 22 is your chance for a two-fer: Dan Garrison of the famed Garrison Brothers Distillery will be on hand for a special evening of Texas bourbon sampling from 6 to 8 p.m. Frank's will have its late-1800s ... More >>
Dining
March 14, 2013
Crazy for Crawfish
Houston's 10 best mudbug joints.
Dining
March 14, 2013
Taking Risks, Making Provisions
Terrence Gallivan and Seth Siegel-Gardner are taking risks, most of which are paying off.
Blogs
March 14, 2013
So Delicious, a Caveman Could Eat It: 10 Paleo-Friendly Restaurant Menus in Houston
It's reader request time around here, and this week's reader request was for a list of paleo-friendly restaurants around Houston. (See, you do love our lists. Yes you do.) Although I don't personally adhere to the paleo diet, many of my good friends do. Here's an explanation of the nutritional regi ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2013
Cafe Pita: Pedestrian Name, Food With Panache
Katharine Shilcutt's list of the Houston Restaurants Every Out-of-Towner Should Visit should go to 11. Because if you come to Houston and do not visit Cafe Pita, you are not just missing the opportunity to try Bosnian food (period) you are missing your opportunity to relish terrific Bosnian food (ex ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2013
Get a Swag VIP Table at Menu of Menus and Ball Hard with Your Friends...for Half the Cash
Now that all of that is out of my system, seriously: VIP tables at Menu of Menus are awesome. Today only, you can purchase a VIP table for 10 for $750. This is a discount of 50 percent -- those tables are normally $1,500 each. Get 10 of your friends to pony up $75 each -- this is $10 less than a st ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2013
Chef Chat, Part 2: Jeff Axline of Brooklyn Athletic Club, On "Americana" Style Food, His Menu, and How the Houston and Austin Food Scenes Compare
This is Part 2 of a three part Chef Chat series. You can read Part 1 here and Part 3 in this same space Friday. EOW: Tell me about Brooklyn Athletic Club. JA: This was originally Shepard's idea. He's had the idea for a long time, but it was hard to come to fruition without having a property tha ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2013
Shaking Up the Bar at Provisions
It felt somewhat incomplete writing up this week's cafe review of Provisions -- the casual half of dual-restaurant concept The Pass & Provisions -- without mentioning the bar program. After all, much of the large, multi-roomed space at Provisions is devoted to its sleek bar. And much was written of ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2013
Chef Chat, Part 1: Jeff Axline of Brooklyn Athletic Club, on Moving Around as a Navy Kid, and The Sexy Lifestyle of a Free-Standing Restaurant Chef
This is the first part of a three-part Chef Chat series. Come back to read parts two and three, which will run in this same space on Thursday and Friday. On a sleepy corner of Richmond, close to the Spur and around the corner from Montrose, the Brooklyn Athletic Club -- which took over the space t ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2013
Peeling Is for Suckers: 10 Crawfish Dishes to Try in Houston
One of the best crawfish dishes I ate last year didn't involve a boil, peeling or shucking of any kind. It was a very simple, very extraordinary plate of crawfish tails poached in butter over al dente Texas-grown rice with green coriander and fermented carrot at Oxheart. While that particular dish ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2013
DEFCON Dining: El Gran Malo
On a recent Tuesday night -- our late night, the one on which after school activities all but force us to dine out instead of cooking -- my youngest daughter said she'd rather go home and eat sandwiches than put on pants. She'd just gotten out of her gymnastics class, clad only in the bathing suit s ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2013
The Eating...Our Words 100: Kiran Verma, Executive Chef and Owner of Kiran's Restaurant & Bar
What she does: When she came to the U.S. over 40 years ago from India, Kiran Verma and her friends (a lot of students) didn't have a lot of money to be going out and spending, so she cooked at home for her friends and family on the weekends. That was the way she and her loved ones felt at home -- b ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2013
Sunday Brunch at Triniti: Affordable Luxury
Even though I've been to Triniti a handful of times, I'm still stunned by the subtle beauty of the airy space every time I walk inside. Accents of gold and cool-toned wood glitter and gleam in the mid-morning sunlight, never detracting from the clean white palette. Visiting Triniti during its new Su ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2013
Houston's Best Ribs, Tex-Mex and Steaks -- According to You, Social Media Maven
What if you could ask social media sites such as Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook and TripAdvisor what Tex-Mex restaurant they'd recommend as the best in Houston? All at once? Without having to mess with the whole following people and enduring their boring status updates part? Triposo is here for you. ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2013
Openings & Closings: Main Street Gets More Action, This Time in Midtown
If you've been looking for former Eating...Our Words contributor and Zilla Street Eats chef Jason Kerr lately, look no further: Kerr is the new chef at the recently opened second location of Hollister Grill on Washington Avenue. According to Eater Houston, the menu at this newer Hollister Grill is b ... More >>
Dining
March 7, 2013
Sitting Pretty
Houston's 10 Best Patios
Dining
March 7, 2013
Nazif's Is Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
Nazif’s Turkish Grill & Deli swings into action with olive oil, tomatoes, yogurt, sheep’s milk cheese, tea and more from its delicious Mediterranean crossroads cuisine.
Blogs
March 7, 2013
Top 10 Restaurants Near Hobby Airport
One of the questions I get most frequently from friends who travel is this: Why isn't there anywhere to eat around Hobby Airport? To which I say: There are lots of places. You're not looking hard enough. Hobby is one of those parts of town that requires a finer-toothed comb than, say, the Montrose ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2013
First Look at Oak Leaf Smokehouse, Replacing Pete's BBQ on Telephone Road
I honestly don't remember when Pete's BBQ closed. The little barbecue shack on Telephone Road was utterly unremarkable aside from its fantastically retro sign, and waving cowboy above the entrance who beckoned people inside for chopped beef sandwiches and baked potatoes. If I was in the area, it was ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2013
Nazif's Brings Affordable, Amazing Turkish Food to West Houston
Chalk it up to an exciting year for food in Houston, or just a recent spate of good luck. It's barely March and I could already fill up this year's list of 100 Favorite Dishes with the tremendous food I've been finding in Houston around every corner lately. One such tremendous dish is the pide at N ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2013
Chef Randy Evans Hosting the Iron Fork Competition at 2013 Menu of Menus®
In 2012, Menu of Menus® celebrated its 10th anniversary with a move into a stunning new space -- Silver Street Station -- with plenty of room for the thousands of guests that showed up and with the inaugural Iron Fork competition. Last year saw master chef Monica Pope hosting the knock-out Iron Che ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2013
Zagat Survey Reveals: In Times of Turmoil, We Still Buy Coffee
A recent Zagat survey revealed that we still consume coffee even if the price of a cup of Joe continues to increase while our economy struggles to get back on its feet. In fact, the average American consumes 2.2 cups of coffee each day, according to the Zagat statistics. Although we need to cut bac ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2013
Dinner and a Movie at Sundance Cinemas, Or the Only Way I'll Go to the Movies Anymore
Movie theaters still have a place for those who don't want or can't afford to build a media screening room in their homes but still enjoy the spectacle of seeing a truly great movie on the big screen. (Torrents are only good for so many things...) Increasingly, however, theaters have had to figure ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2013
5 Corned Beef Dishes to Try Just In Time for St. Patty's Day
March is finally here and that means St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner. Besides celebrating this Irish holiday with lots of alcohol and green-colored food, corned beef is a staple item during this time of year. Don't just settle for a regular corned beef hash or corned beef and cabbage d ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2013
Upcoming Events: Last Supper at Fratelli's Authentic Italian Cuisine Restaurant
Have you been looking for a reason to make it down to Guru Burgers & Crepes in Sugar Land? Been meaning to check out Open the Taps and help the non-profit support craft beer-friendly legislation in Texas? Just want the first sip of the newest Saint Arnold brew? You can do all of these things in one ... More >>
Dining
February 28, 2013
Praise the Lord and Pass the Pints
Houston's 10 best beer bars
Dining
February 28, 2013
Dumplings to Die for at Charivari
The best of continental cuisine all in one beautiful, good mix.
Blogs
February 28, 2013
The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Restaurant Patios
Patio dining in Houston isn't quite the rage it is in more temperate cities. In fact, even cities like Chicago -- which arguably enjoys the same amount, perhaps even less, of patio appropriate weather as we do -- seem to clamor for outdoor dining more than Houston does. Despite that fact, we are in ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2013
Chef Chat, Part 2: Joe Macri of Up Restaurant, On Why He Still Likes to Cook on the Line and Serving Sustainable Food with Minimal Allergens
This is Part 2 of a three part Chef Chat series. You can read Part 1 here and Part three in this same space Friday. EOW: What brought you to Up Restaurant? JM: I wasn't used to a very strict type of cuisine. My creativity just wasn't being fed. The Mandolas were very nice; it was a very nice pla ... More >>
Blogs
February 27, 2013
A Dozen Years Later, Charivari Is Still a Star
Every once in a while, I encounter an older restaurant that's changed or grown so much over the years that it practically begs for a review -- even if Robb Walsh or one of my other Houston Press predecessors have already ably reviewed it in the past. Charivari, the subject of this week's cafe review ... More >>
Blogs
February 27, 2013
Chef Chat, Part 1: Joe Macri of Up Restaurant, On Growing Up in a Southern Italian Family, and How He Moved to Houston Within 10 Days of Visiting for the First Time
This is the first part of a Chef Chat series. Parts 2 and 3 will run in this same space on Thursday and Friday. Up Restaurant in Highland Village boasts one of the most beautiful dining rooms in the city. Above the bar, a gigantic, glittering Swarovski chandelier immediately wows before you step d ... More >>
Blogs
February 26, 2013
Top 10 Restaurants in the Third Ward
All of Houston's original six wards are rich with history, but none captivate me quite as much as the Third Ward. Once home to the city's wealthiest residents, the area just southeast of downtown has gone through a tremendous amount of change since it was first established in 1836. The Third Ward h ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2013
Chef Ryan Savoie to Head Up New Lunch Program Launching at Saint Arnold Brewery
Houston's oldest microbrewery once hosted a tour only once a week, back in the days when the Saint Arnold Brewery was still located in a warehouse that lacked both air conditioning and space for its growing crowd of fans. Four years ago, the brewery moved into a big new facility at 2000 Lyons that o ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2013
Upcoming Events: Bake Like Bouchon at Central Market
Aspiring pastry chefs and home bakers -- don't all freak out at once. Christina Tosi, award-winning pastry chef at Momofuku Milk Bar, and Sebastien Rouxel, author executive pastry chef for Bouchon and the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group, are both headed to Houston to teach one-off cooking classes at ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2013
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 >>
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