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$13 at Edwards Marq*e on the Katy Freeway

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$13 at Edwards Marq*e on the Katy Freeway

Kimchee Spree

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All The Traffic Problems Solved!

Katy Freeway Finished As Of Tomorrow

Katy Freeway Expansion Working Great, Highway Officials Say

So how is traffic on the Katy Freeway now that the expansion has been officially completed?Pretty good -- if you ask the people in charge of it.The Texas Transportation Institute has done a study at the request of TxDOT and found what it's calling "significant improvement."Evening commuters on the 2 ... More >>

Louisiana Lunch

So how is traffic on the Katy Freeway now that the expansion has been officially completed?Pretty good -- if you ask the people in charge of it.The Texas Transportation Institute has done a study at the request of TxDOT and found what it's calling "significant improvement."Evening commuters on the 2 ... More >>

The Grocery Store Corridor

If you put stock in any of the numerous lists of food trends for 2009 that place "at-home cooking" as the most important trend of the new year, you'll be happy to know that Houston is continually offering plenty of places for you to do your shopping.  Grocery stores, like oil, are still big bus ... More >>

Mex, Not Tex

La Valerosa runs from the border to find what's haute in Mexican cuisine

Las Problemas con Las Alamedas

No matter what you may think of the food, there's no denying that the nearly three decade old Las Alamedas -- that familiar pink stucco sight along Katy Freeway -- has one of the most beautiful spaces in town.  With soaring ceilings, intricate wrought iron, a gorgeous antique mahogany ... More >>

That Heights Bike Trail Developing Nicely, Except For The Arson

Photos by Amina Rivera The new bikeway near 7th Street and CourtlandThe Missouri, Kansas, Texas Southern Pacific railroad (try to say that three times fast) Rails-to-Trails project in the Heights is finally underway. After the official groundbreaking ceremony last December, men in hard hats a ... More >>

A Brennan's Hatchling and Fancy Movie Food: CityCentre Updates

Studio Movie Grill is now open for business, the second of the anchor tenants to open up at CityCentre in west Houston.  CityCentre is the latest in a series of "town center" mixed-use developments that have sprung up around the city. This one is slightly different from its c ... More >>

$13 at A Moveable Feast

Where: A Moveable Feast, 9341 Katy Freeway, 713-365-0368 What $13 Gets You:  A sandwich to beat Subway any day. $13 will get you more than a sandwich at this popular health food store cum restaurant named after Ernest Hemingway's memoirs.  And if sandwiches aren't your thing, you can fil ... More >>

Cajun Gets a Crewcut at Denis' Seafood House

Where: A Moveable Feast, 9341 Katy Freeway, 713-365-0368 What $13 Gets You:  A sandwich to beat Subway any day. $13 will get you more than a sandwich at this popular health food store cum restaurant named after Ernest Hemingway's memoirs.  And if sandwiches aren't your thing, you can fil ... More >>

Café Orleans Express

This hard-to-find sandwich stand is a little slice of NOLA on the Katy Freeway

Range War

The shootout over gun club safety

Fight the Power

Could there be a fun, pro-music political action committee in Houston? Why the hell not?

COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE

How a theater on the verge of insolvency has reversed its fortunes

Super Seafood Salad

Ciro's Italian Grill

The Cannonball Run

Ten competitors. One mile along the Katy Freeway. No cars allowed.

For Whom the Hell Tolls

Heights residents fear the toll road authority's new land acquisition plans

I Say Tortilla, You Say Tortilla

Barcino Seafood and Tapas

The Mixmaster

County Judge Bob Eckels, the Doc Ock of transportation, is busy planning more roads

King of the Roads

A Houston author tells how our traffic got jammed

The Perfect Political Storm

In this flood, Lee Brown has stayed high and dry (so far)

The Katy: Railing On

Fears of a future light train trouble Katy Freeway expansion critics

Commuter Rail From Galveston And Hempstead By 2012!! Well, Maybe

​The Citizens Transportation Coalition is currently giddy with dreams of 90 MPH commuter trains speeding from Galveston and down 290 into the city...possibly by 2012, which sounds like the far future but is only three years away. There hasn't been much public movement on commuter rail since the HG ... More >>

Health Department Roundup: Single-Service Edition

Usually the Roundup shines its light on the misdeeds of full-service restaurants, but this time out we reconnoiter the single-service foodscape. These are generally not sit-down restaurants but cheaper grab-n-gos where you aren't expected to tip anyone. These establishments cannot get away with spi ... More >>

The Worst Brisket I Ever Ate

Photos by Robb Walsh​Sampling the goods at shade-tree barbecue stands is one of my favorite pursuits. So when I saw a smoking barbecue trailer with a crowd around it in a parking lot on Fry Road just north of the Katy Freeway last Saturday, I pulled over and checked it out. The sign advertised ... More >>

Upcoming Events

© David Nathan-Maister and Oxygenee Ltd.​Although it's taking place next month, spots will fill up quickly for Absinthe: Revealed, so we're doing you a favor by telling you about it now. On December 5 at 7:30 p.m., Avant Garden will be hosting a "celebration of tastings and truths" about o ... More >>

Man Food for Your Man Cave

Eating Our Words headed over to The Guy Expo at the George R. Brown Convention Center this past weekend, where we found -- as expected -- a plethora of manly products for sale, manly sports to play, manly women to ogle (wait, that came out wrong...) and manly foods to sample. Check out our favorite ... More >>

The 10 Biggest Houston Bummers Of The Decade

As we noted earlier this week, the fast-approaching end of the first decade of the 21st century brings with it a lot of lists.Some will be national; this will be strictly local. A lot of great things happened in Houston in the ten years of The Oughts, but a lot of bad things happened too. It's calle ... More >>

The 10 Biggest Non-Bummers Of The Decade In Houston

​We recently took a look at the 10 Biggest Bummers of Houston's Decade; in the spirit of equal time (and the season), we now offer the 10 Biggest Non-Bummers of the Oughts.This being Houston, some of these happy developments have a not-so-happy side, but that's to be expected, we suppose.Are we mi ... More >>

The Top 10 Places to Eat on Long Point

There's more to Long Point than just taco trucks...​As more development and activity pushes consumers north of the Katy Freeway -- such as the giant new shopping center and mega H-E-B at Bunker Hill, the push from MetroNational to create a "Memorial City"-branded area around Gessner, the etern ... More >>

Openings and Closings

​According to My Table, Philippe Schmit has finally inked a deal for his new restaurant's new digs...outside Loop 610. You'll remember that Schmit himself had originally said he'd be moving to an inner loop location and would aim to be open in August. Instead, he's signed a lease in the same c ... More >>

5 Things Other Than Chinese Food Found at a Chinese Buffet

Drunken Monkey​ Guilty pleasure or disgusting habit, visiting even the best Chinese buffets will leave you full and full of regret - best, of course, being a relative term in the world of Chinese food and buffets. Those costing more than $12 -- Todai in the Marqu*E Center, for one -- are exclu ... More >>

Hermine: Get Ready For The Usual Streets To Flood

Photo by jason tinderAnother rainy day in Houston​The remnants of Hermine, a/k/a The Storm Named After No One, are expected to hit Houston today with some heavy-ish rains. You know what that means -- TV crews will be sprinting to the intersection of the Beltway and the Katy Freeway for footage of ... More >>

Al-Jazeera Headed For The Houston Airwaves?

Al-Jazeera: But first, a look at traffic on the Katy Freeway​The Washington Post broke a story this morning on previously undisclosed negotiations between Pacifica and Al-Jazeera that would see Pacifica's five self-owned stations broadcasting content from the controversial Arabic network.One of th ... More >>

Openings & Closings

​After an extended hiatus, Las Alamedas (23501 Cinco Ranch Boulevard, Suite F410) has finally reopened -- but not in its former location on Katy Freeway. Instead, the old-school Mexican restaurant known as the site of many a special occasion dinner has moved west to Katy's La Centerra developm ... More >>

Northwest Side Has a Power Outage

Triangles mark affected customers​If you live between the Katy Freeway and 290 on the northwest side of town, you're probably not reading this unless you're on batteries. Ice on the power lines has caused service to go out to more than 55,000 customers in that triangle, CenterPoint spokeswoma ... More >>

First Look at Pecan Creek Grille

Photos by Katharine ShilcuttThe Texan, one of Pecan Creek Grill's "breakfast entrees."​Brock and Stacey Silverstein know their stuff when it comes to breakfast. The Silversteins are ten-year veterans of the Buffalo Grille, one of Houston's most enduringly popular breakfast destinations, but al ... More >>

Professor Fish Heads Wants to Give You an Education

Photo by Robb WalshP.J. Stoops at his old booth in the Bayou City Farmers Market.​P.J. Stoops, also known by his blogging name as "Professor Fish Heads," wants to educate you about fish. And not just the same old salmon, tuna and tilapia you see at the store, either. Stoops once had an indepe ... More >>

Man Doesn't Notice Knife Sticking Out of Bed He Jumps On, Killing Him

How not to store your knife.​We're not sure why anyone would position a knife pointing upwards on a hotel bed, but someone did and a 24-year-old Garland man is dead because he didn't notice it before he dove right into it, Houston police say. The man, whose identity has not been released, was ... More >>

Nathan Del Sol, 5, Bayou Body Count No. 82

Horror story: Five-year-old shot by his seven-year-old brother.​Houston homicide investigators are looking into the shooting death of a five-year-old boy who was shot by his seven-year-old brother. The two were left unattended in a Katy Freeway motel room while their father was in the motel's ... More >>

Upcoming Events: Hairy Bikers Heat Up Houston

Hairy Bikers hosts Bill Allen and Paul Patranella will be in town tonight at District Lounge.​The History Channel came to Houston recently, and the bloggers behind spicy food blog Eat More Heat were tapped to help the show Hairy Bikers with the Ultra-Hot Chile Burger Challenge that will be fea ... More >>

Openings & Closings: October 2011

Coming soon: Free bitch-slaps for anyone who says, "Meet me at the Finn."​It's been a busy month for restaurant openings, closings, name changes and remodels. Hang onto your coffee cups -- we've got a lot of restaurant news to get through in one post. Openings: BlackFinn American Grille is c ... More >>

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Hot Dogs

Photo by Jeff VogtYou can even get sauerkraut on your $1.50 Costco dog!​For the next 20 weeks, we'll be rounding up the runners-up to our 2011 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 w ... More >>