Subject: John Mariani

• And No You Can’t Send Food Up a Dumb Waiter, Even in the Finest Restaurants

  Chef Michael Kramer; Sandy Collet, director of sales and marketing for Hotel ICON; and Ludovic Poirer, general manager Last night was a celebration at Voice, the restaurant in the Hotel Icon known for its basement wine cellar and kitchen and its sterling food at the bar. Famed restaurant critic John Mariani of Esquire magazine has named it one of the top 20 best new restaurants in the United States and the drinks and munchies were flowing freely. At unaccustomed center stage at 220 Main wa

  November 21, 2008

• Esquire Magazine Food Critic Revisits Houston, Questions Raised Again (Updated)

  If you're a baseball fan you love or hate the Yankees; if you're a football fan you love or hate the Cowboys; if you're a restaurant fan you love or hate John Mariani of Esquire magazine.Mariani is a widely popular writer who regularly provides lists of "20 Best New Restaurants" or stuff like that for the magazine.What pisses (a lot of) people off, though, is the way he goes about gathering info for those stories.The Los Angeles Times did a lengthy wrap-up three years ago about how Mariani gets

  December 5, 2008

• Esquire Magazine Food Critic Revisits Houston, Questions Raised Again (Updated)

  If you're a baseball fan you love or hate the Yankees; if you're a football fan you love or hate the Cowboys; if you're a restaurant fan you love or hate John Mariani of Esquire magazine.Mariani is a widely popular writer who regularly provides lists of "20 Best New Restaurants" or stuff like that for the magazine.What pisses (a lot of) people off, though, is the way he goes about gathering info for those stories.The Los Angeles Times did a lengthy wrap-up three years ago about how Mariani gets

  December 5, 2008

• Dish

  October 31, 1996

• Hotel Haute

  October 23, 1997

• Dish

  December 17, 1998

• Snippy, Snippy

  November 18, 1999

• Damming Up Sabine

  December 2, 1999

• Letters

  September 18, 2003

• Brain Food

  You may puzzle over the menu at Robert Gadsby's Noé, but you'll love the clever chow

  July 21, 2005

• Toy Story

  An HPD sex-toy crackdown goes limp

  October 20, 2005

• The Great Gadsby

  One of Hollywood's top cooking stars is moving to Houston

  December 16, 2004

• Cooked Book

  The real chefs' surprise is who made it -- or didn't -- into Culinary Capital

  October 21, 2004

• New Digs, Old Tricks

  The Riviera Grill has moved downtown, but it doesn't know how to make an urban statement

  January 9, 2003

• Choking the Critic

  Why is the Chronicle so sour on hiring a full-time restaurant reviewer?

  August 30, 2001

• Still Your Father's Tony's

  When Tony's gets rid of its outdated attitudes, we'll have some reason to go back

  April 12, 2001

• East Meets Best

  Scott Chen opened Houston's top Chinese restaurant. Now he wants to run Houston's top restaurant. Period.

  September 16, 1999