Jason Kerr

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 "Fancy" Food Trucks

Talk about an agonizing list to write. Houston food trucks have never been more clever, more inventive or more consistently enjoyable than they are right now. (The most recent sold-out Haute Wheels food truck festival can surely attest to that.) A few years of winnowing out dilettantes since the fir ... More >>

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 >>

Crazy for Crawfish

Houston's 10 best mudbug joints.

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 >>

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Fried Chicken

"What's your favorite fried chicken in Houston?" I asked my mother a few days ago over the phone, curious to see if I'd overlooked any old favorites on the top 10 list I was compiling. A sixth generation Texan, my mother has lived here for more than three decades and cooks for a living. Needless to ... More >>

Dirty, Guilty Little Pleasures

After eating somewhere in the ball park of 12 Robin's Eggs today, with my stomach getting that sour, sickly feeling from too much sugar, I realized a few things: First: There's a little fat kid living inside of me. And second: I came to grips with the fact that I, like everyone else on this strange ... More >>

Upcoming Events: Dinner and Drinks at Rudz

Photo by GroovehouseI wonder if the Montrose Beer & Gun Club still meets at Rudyard's...​Looking for a food truck festival that doesn't charge admission and that offers plenty of seating? Head to Noel Furniture -- of all places -- today, starting at 11 a.m. Until 1 p.m., some of the city's be ... More >>

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. Barleyvine: The termination of House Bill 602 in the Texas legislature last wee ... More >>

Hungry Eyes

There isn't much to salivate over at the Men's Club.

Zilla Street Eats

​In the past, when occasional Eating Our Words blogger Jason Kerr wasn't dishing up fine French cuisine at Café Rabelais, he was hanging out with his BFF Anthony Bourdain at Jones Hall. Well, now he has a new way to keep himself occupied at night - running a food truck. The mobile cuisine g ... More >>

Comments of the Day

​Our own Jason Kerr got some praise today for his Zilla Street Eats food truck. Commenter Nate pointed out some things Jason's doing well: Their mac and cheese is really, really, really good. The fries are the best in Houston, especially with the "secret sauce". And using fresh, hot jalapen ... More >>

The Most Disappointing Restaurant Openings of 2010

Gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes accompanied news that we'd no longer be able to enjoy Sabetta's homemade sausage and peppers.​This week, we start our countdown of 2010 restaurant openings and closings, counting down the restaurants that opened in 2010 after great advance buzz only to ... More >>

Recipe: South Texas Asian Pesto

​One of the most important things in cooking is learning to let ingredients speak for themselves. Too often, we as cooks take the position of alchemists, laboring under the false belief that we must be transformative, to make things other than what they are, better in some way. When gifted w ... More >>

Autumn Feasting at Animal Farm Center

​Halloween night, while most Houstonians were busy trick or treating, a few gathered at Animal Farm Center in Cat Spring for a decadent afternoon and evening. Jason Kerr (a chef and an EOW contributor) was on hand to serve up food brought in fresh from local vendors, including produce harveste ... More >>

Beef Pavilion Burger at Polk Street Pub

​Jason Kerr's review a few months back on the "black jack burger" at Polk Street Pub put this restaurant on my burger radar. After forcing my "meating" companion to navigate through is downtown Houston, we arrived at Polk Street Pub just at the end of happy hour (Monday through Friday, 4 to ... More >>

Top 5 Most Nightmarish Combined Foods

Because you've smoked an unbelievable amount of pot?​Yesterday, Jason Kerr delivered a heartfelt sonnet to a jar of baconnaise, a combination bacon-and-mayonnaise condiment that he seemed to enjoy but which would almost certainly give me nightmares. Sure, I'll have bacon and mayonnaise together on ... More >>

Baconnaise Sonnet: Pork-Based Condiments

An ode to baconnaise by Jason Kerr.​I spent the day Thinking about Baconaise French Fries could be the way Maybe a BLT, can't say Bacon and mayonnaise It is all the craze Spreading Pork for days Sandwiches will be a phase But fish sticks will stay Even with all the praise Your cholesterol won' ... More >>

The 15-Pound Burger at French Press Cafe

The burger dwarfs the economy-size pickle jar next to it.​A 15-pound burger. Just saying the phrase isn't enough to indicate exactly how massive of a burger that is. Fifteen pounds - and that's just the meat. Twenty-four slices of American cheese. An entire head of lettuce. A 15-pound burger ... More >>

Futbol Frenzy at Fajita Flats

Jason KerrSmoky quail-and-bacon-wrapped shrimp fajitas​We got caught up in the World Cup frenzy at Fajita Flats (2929 Fondren, 713-789-3338), drinking margaritas and Coronas, and eating fajitas. Every time a team scored a goal or came close to scoring, the entire restaurant erupted -- entire t ... More >>

Designer Meats

In Houston, more and more chefs are curing their own pig products

Cop As Victim?

Readers respond to "On Hold"

Cha Champagne & Wine Bar

Readers Miss Robb

And viewers of our chef tats piece weigh in on the ink.

This Week in Deliciousness

Hi there, Minsa! Take your seat next to Sun Maid raisins and Land-O-Lakes butter in the "Totally Bangable Food Mascots" section.​ Welcome back to the weekly round-up here at Eating Our Words, where we're waiting until there's a public health care option to organize our Inappropriately Fried Fo ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

SQUIRT! Haha, caughtcha nappin'!​ Welcome back to the weekly round-up here at Eating Our Words, where today we're contemplating the design of the turtle, and thinking perhaps creatures known for making good soup shouldn't be walking around with their own bowl strapped to their backs. We're als ... More >>

Commitment Problems

Readers disagree that involuntary commitment is a bad thing.

This Week in Deliciousness

Superbanana slumbers innocently, unaware that he will soon face his fearsome arch-nemesis: Krypto-Monkey.​ Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we've decided to keep all these sausage and cheese Christmas gift baskets for ourselves. Jane Catherine Collins certainl ... More >>

Talking Turkeys

Are Houston concert fans really all that bad?

This Week In Deliciousness

So wait... someone who doesn't live in a dorm sells Frito Pie made with Doritos?​ Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where today's snowfall has got us breaking out the 55-gallon drum of chicken soup. We started the week off with Greenway Barista's daring proclamati ... More >>

Anita Bump, Michael Phelps and Harris County Jail

Bump You

Houston Turns Back to Tap Water

That stuff flowing from the faucet is safe, cheap and environmental

This Week in Cafe: Genji Restaurant and Karaoke Bar

This Week in Cafe: Genji Restaurant and Karaoke Bar

NOTSUOH'S

TEXAS PRAIRIE FIRE

ZULA'S ESPRESSO MARTINI

Letters to the Editor

Road Trip

How a mid-list band spent six weeks in an RV, fueled by chili

C'mon, Get Happy!

Freezepop offers up plenty of Enthusiasm

Git'r Spun!

Countrified DJ Jester the Filipino Fist is the stand-up comedian of scratchers

Zilla's a Thrilla

A Houston hopeful throws down at the Thunda'ground Showcase

Singing from the Gut

You never know what'll be spewed at a Heist at Hand show

One Hot Beach

It's sand, sun and whipped cream when Mikki & Her Mates hit Galveston

Hotter than Hasselhoff?

Maybe not yet, but Koufax is on the way

Russian Radio

A former KTRU staffer takes her show on the rails

He's So Klute

Tom Withers drops his drum 'n' bass on Clark's

Letters

Bikini Wax

Show off your stuff as DJs spin at the Summer Skeet Skeet

Swallow Your Pride

A big dose of dance parties and concerts is coming your way

Legendary Beats

Get a heady dose of drum 'n' bass at Planet of the Drums

Down on the Corner

An evening with the workers and players at Montrose and Westheimer