Ethiopia

The 10 Best Downtown Restaurants

More than tunnels and tourist traps.

Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to Ethiopian Cuisine

People unfamiliar with African cuisines often tend to lump them all in together: East African, West African, North African...what's the difference? We don't lump French and Spanish food together simply because they share a border, however, nor do we regard Indian and Chinese as the same because they ... More >>

The 5 Worst Disasters In Benefit Concert History

Benefit concerts are great. The practice of bands playing to raise money for a cause can be as local as helping a fellow unsigned musician pay for their son's hospital bills to as international as world hunger. Though we may pinch our noses at the perceived sanctimoniousness of people like Bono and ... More >>

Discovering Lucy

More surprises from Ethiopia - restaurant with generous portions, good food and a place to dance away the calories after dinner.

Coffee Beans Could Be Extinct In 60 Years; Then What?

If you believe the news from over the weekend that coffee beans are in danger of extinction, you're probably hoarding all the Arabica you can find today and envisioning a future in which coffee -- already liquid gold for many of us caffeine addicts -- can be used as delicious, fragrant currency. No ... More >>

Lunch with Marcus Samuelsson Provides a Sneak Peek at Pass and Provisions

"You're going to have a great restaurant in your community," Marcus Samuelsson said to a roomful of smiling guests last Thursday afternoon at the Milam House. The bonafide celebrity chef from New York City -- he of the three Michelin star Aquavit and the President-approved Red Rooster in Harlem -- ... More >>

2013 Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon (& 2013 ABB 5K)

Top 5 Places to Carbo-Load in Houston

Houston marathon runners, you've trained long and hard (I hope) in preparation for running 26.2 miles this coming Sunday. Now, it's time to eat. A lot. Although carbo-loading has its critics, many aspiring endurance athletes still swear by the practice. Sure, you can eat your weight in bagels and w ... More >>

6 Musicians and Their Charities

​The main knock on celebrity charity is that it's essentially a brand-building tool -- good for image and not much else. The tax savings don't hurt, either. But not all charitable connections are about image-burnishing and tax savings. (God, we sure hope not.) The number-crunchers at Forbes lo ... More >>

How The Simpsons Makes Foodies Look Like Smug, Elitist Schmucks

There must be a kitchen sink that we can get to do a cameo too, guys...​I didn't want to watch the latest episode of The Simpsons, the one in which Marge inexplicably becomes a food blogger. Yes, the foodie backlash has officially begun. I haven't wanted to watch an episode of The Simpsons in ... More >>

Top 5 Local Food Products

Liz (perspicacious.org)City Hall Farmers Market​The local and sustainable food movement is not a new one, but for the last few years the interest here in Houston has grown as more and more chefs and restaurants have really begun to prominently feature and use local foods. The term "local" is s ... More >>

Soul Patrol

Several Houston DJs are discovering it's a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod world.

Comment of the Day: The Doc and the Gazelle

​Today Geri Maria Harris reported on the Twiga Terrace Restaurant in the zoo's new African Forest. And Doc Ricky had some ideas he thinks would work better than Twiga's veggie burgers and three-cheese sandwiches: Nice to have an African theme, but why doesn't it extend to the food? Perfect t ... More >>

An Ethiopian Breakfast at Sheba Cafe

Photos by Troy Fields​Whether you've grown tired of typical breakfast and brunch places, whether you're on the hunt for something exotic and new or whether you are simply interested in seeing traditional breakfast foods in a far different setting, breakfast at Sheba Cafe will suit you to a T. ... More >>

Planet Houston

The world's great cuisines converge here.

Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs

Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. Chili Bob's Houston Eats: There's a new Ethiopian restaurant in town...finally. ... More >>

The 5 Most Comforting Funeral Foods

Photo by chotdaHard-boiled eggs are traditionally eaten after Jewish funerals, at the Seudat Havra'ah.​My sweet aunt passed away last week, with the funeral held this past Monday at my childhood church. Like at every proper Texas funeral, there was a spread of food laid out afterward that woul ... More >>

Spotlight On: Meade

​When you hear the words "golden delicious," think mead (not apples!), the drink of choice for various peoples throughout the ages, including ancient Greeks, twelfth-century Slavs, and modern-day Ethiopians. Loosely defined as any beverage made from honey, water and fermented yeast, mead is ce ... More >>

iFest: Of Drew Brees and Discount Perfume

Photo by Jason Wolter​Every year since 1971, iFest has grown. And every year, it becomes less and less distinguishable from any other festival in Houston, for better or for worse. This year's iFest spans two weekends and roughly ten city blocks around City Hall. It's filled with more sights, s ... More >>

Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series: John Banville and Abraham Verghese

The Irish novelist gets beyond The Sea, and the doctor/memoirist looks home

Hand Making Coffee at Home

​With the holidays coming up and family and friends coming home and visiting, it's time to pull out your old coffee maker. Or is it? There are some great ways to coffee by hand-brewing it with different devices. The apparatus you choose can alter the way even a single-origin coffee can taste. ... More >>

The Best Café in Texas

​Yes, we mean the best. Brown Coffee Company off West King's Highway, San Antonio, Texas is the complete coffee experience. Part roasting facility, part training center, and part slow bar, this is a learning environment like no other in the Lone Star State. Head roaster (and head barista) Aaro ... More >>

City of Coffee: Green Beans

​As noted in our recent City of Coffee feature, coffee tastes best when it's made from fresh-roasted beans. Some coffee fanatics take that concept to the extreme and roast their own coffee beans at home. (Hot air popcorn machines are very popular for this purpose.) Several of these home roaste ... More >>

Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony

Photo by Robb Walsh​When I heard that Tuscany Coffee barista David Buehrer had never attended an Ethiopian coffee ceremony, I invited him to meet me at Blue Nile Ethiopian restaurant on Richmond. We were seated in backless stools at a traditional low, round table in the back of the restauran ... More >>

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The 38th Annual Houston International Festival

Go to Ireland and back again, without leaving downtown Houston

When It Comes To Fossils, Only Houston Says "I Love Lucy"

When Lucy came to Houston's Museum of Natural Science, she was a smash hit. Over 200,000 people came to see the 3.2 million year-old bones of the humanoid ape that (or is it who?) might have been an ancestor to each and every one of us.The 2007 exhibit was such a triumph that it was held over for f ... More >>

Five of the Wackiest Saints in History

Ivory Smugglers Get Nabbed

Fabulous Fridays

iFest hosts a series of free lunchtime concerts

Sgt. Pepper at Discovery Green

The Houston International Festival Is Upon Us

Indie Rock Rediscovers the Motherland

Kinky Afro

Blue Nile

Jay Francis, Food Explorer: Ethiopian Chili Tacos at Nazareth Cafe on Chimney Rock

Skeleton and Spirits

The Museum of Natural Science takes Lucy to her first Halloween party

“Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia”

HMNS hosts world premiere of landmark African exhibit

Shooter

Who better to save America than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously

Bones of Contention

Scientists fear that Lucy might be a crack exhibit for Houston

Best Place to Buy Coffee Beans

African Hideaway

Addisaba has an air of foreign intrigue — and awesome kifto and yedoro wot

Invisible Man

Kenna doesn't care if you see him. He just wants you to hear him.

Lost & Found

One year ago, the Lost Boys of Sudan came to Houston in search of America, a future, safety and an education simple things that got somewhat complicated in the translation

Everyday Art

Mundane objects make for "Out of the Ordinary" works

Wot More Could You Ask?

At Awash, eating with your hands is a civilized pleasure

Sports Injera

The Queen of Sheba mixes Ethiopia with ESPN

Dish

Dipping in the Money Pool

An old-world tradition helps immigrants build a new life in Houston

Rotation

The Raw and the Cooked