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Houston's 10 best Tex-Mex restaurants.

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Tex-Mex Restaurants

It's been more than a century since the first Tex-Mex restaurant opened in Houston. George Caldwell brought The Original Mexican Restaurant to our city in 1907, influenced -- most agree -- by a restaurant of the same name in his hometown of San Antonio. It would be another 20 years before Felix Mex ... More >>

Burgers Off the Beaten Path: Watson's House of Ales

"I am not a smart man." Forrest Gump's words echoed in my head as I stared at the Saint Patrick's Day decorations hanging on the temporary plastic tents erected outside Watson's House of Ales this past Sunday afternoon. In my haste to come and try what I've been told is one of the better pub-style ... More >>

Heights Walmart Opened Over the Weekend; Redefines "Local"

Jeff Randall, the store manager for the new Walmart that just opened on Yale Street over the weekend, is incredibly eager and affable as he leads me around the giant Supercenter that covers 150,000 square feet of retail space -- and roughly triple that in a parking lot outside that the Walmart share ... More >>

Top 10 Restaurants in the Heights

Let's get one thing out of the way before we get started: This is a list of the 10 best restaurants in the Heights, as "the Heights" is defined by the Houston Heights Association. That means that restaurants outside of its boundaries -- north of Loop 610 West, west of North Shepherd, south of the Ka ... More >>

Nundini: Straight from the Old Country

Italian kitchen, still lacking its sea legs, shows real promise.

Shannon Michelle Garcia: Wanted In Fatal Hit & Run That Killed Jeremy Choate

Police are looking for a 25-year-old woman who they say hit and killed a motorcyclist Saturday and then took off without rendering aid. Shannon Michelle Garcia, 25, has been charged with accident involving injury or death in the incident, which left a 33-year-old man dead. His identity has been wit ... More >>

Bill Henderson: County Judge's Legal Counsel Allegedly Goes Rambo When Car Towed

Getting your car towed is an aggravating experience, to be sure. It's perhaps more aggravating if you're a former state district judge and current legal counsel to County Judge Ed Emmett -- in other words, a person who's used to not having to deal with the petty annoyances that afflict the not-poli ... 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 Taste of Nostalgia at C&D Burger Shoppe

Photos by Troy FieldsPrepping for a busy lunch at C&D.​Everything about C&D Burger Shoppe has that pleasant glow of a hazy, nostalgic time somewhere in between the late 1970s and early 1980s. Even the slideshow accompanying this week's cafe review of the little burger joint in South Houston lo ... More >>

Top 5 Houston Food Signs

Photos by Kevin Shalin​There are so many Houston eating establishments, and thus, so many signs. But these are the best. 5. Antonio's Flying Pizza (2920 Hillcroft) There's nothing not to like about this sign. It has all the characteristics you look for--big, bright, eye-catching lights, a ... 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 >>

The 10 Best Places to Eat in Memorial

Although it's undergoing some massive growth in the form of redevelopment and expansion at Memorial City Mall and the construction of the nearly finished CityCentre "town square" off Beltway 8, Memorial is still in many ways a sweetly sleepy suburb. But sleepy doesn't necessarily mean boring. And su ... More >>

Game Time: Brad Mills Shows Bald Is Beautiful

​The biggest story locally this week has probably been the Astros hiring of Brad Mills. While some see it as the dawning of a new era for the Astros, I for one am sad to see the pageant that was Star Search 2009 end.So many memories...watching Drayton and Tal parade all ten candidates around...hea ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Miss Pop Rocks: Ohmygawd…It’s Totally Carolyn Farb

Mom's Hand Restaurant

Inside the Komart store on Gessner, you'll find Korean food like Mom used to make

La Fiesta Mexican Restaurant

Old-fashioned Tex-Mex served in the atmosphere of your choice

The Shepherd Stroll, Part II

The Shepherd Stroll

Fight the Power

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

Getting Schooled: Bombs Away

Rep. Culberson is ready to take the gloves off in Iraq

HouTube.com

Ten of the Bayou City's best short music films

Digging It

Tunnels are a rare bird in Houston. But will they fly for I-45?

Bully for You

The legislature offers a solution to playground problems

Letters

Forgiving Fertitta

Is Tilman's awesome new restaurant reason enough?

Dining by Demographic

Fleming's Prime Steakhouse serves up excellent renditions of the nation's most average food and wine preferences

Reel Life

Duncan Ganley can't seem to tell the difference between fact and fiction

Rhythm Room Boom

Chicks who rock and Tourbaby take the Washington Avenue stage

Column Calamity

The Chron editor starts to make a mark

Rock-A-Baby Bye-Bye

A state program was supposed to give moms a safe place to drop off unwanted newborns. Then why are so many babies still ending up in the trash?

We Take It Back

Mattress Mac's bowl game is a joke, after all

Stirred and Shaken

El Tiempo's Cuba Libre

Road Hog

Tick off these drivers and prepare to die, or at least to wake up to a gigantic mess in your front yard

Rubber Fetish

Glory days for KHOU and Anna Werner

Server Up

(Online Restaurant Reservations)

Courting Disaster?

Some woes aren't going away at the county's new criminal justice center

Wareing Thin

Primary results make a hoax of Hotze

Young at Art

Glassell School's Core show reveals the heart, soul and blood-sugar levels of its visiting artists

Real Life

Migraine Mills. All-consuming paths converge at Katy's megamall

Dinner and a Movie

Local Restaurant News

Hot Plate

Hotel Haute

John Sheely's Riviera Grill shows that even a chain hotel can host first-class food

Dish

Press Picks

Talk Radio Takes Aim at the Bad Guys

Dan's the man behind a new anti-crime group

Press Briefs