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Eastbound and Downtown

The top 10 restaurants in EaDo.

Top 10 Restaurants in EaDo (a.k.a. Old Chinatown, a.k.a. East Downtown)

So you're not comfortable with the EaDo sobriquet. I don't care. The damn thing has stuck. It's short, easy and to-the-point. (Besides, the more important question is what to call that weird DMZ area on South Shepherd that's not quite Montrose, not quite Upper Kirby, not quite River Oaks and not qui ... More >>

Big Savings at Little Bitty Burger Barn, Half-Off Sushi, and More

This week's Houston Press Voice Daily Deal is good for 53 percent off ($7 for $15) burgers and more at Little Bitty Burger Barn. All-fresh -- never frozen! -- beef and homemade fries are just the beginning; check out LBBB's wings, sandwiches, salads, and daily home-style specials. But if you are a ... More >>

Carefully Curated Deals include Half-Price on Pizza at Bombay Pizza Company, Brunch at Birraporetti's

This week's Houston Press Voice Daily Deal is good for 53 percent off ($7 for $15) the unique, Indian-Italian fusion food at Bombay Pizza Company. Your coupon this week is good at both the downtown and the new Sugar Land locations, so enjoy the pizza named to Eating...Our Words' recent Top Ten Pizza ... More >>

Half-off Thai at Anothai, Living Social Take-out Deals, and More

This week's Houston Press Voice Daily Deal will get you half off ($10 for $20) at any of the three Anothai Cuisine locations around Houston: FM 1960, Louetta Road in Spring, and their new Northwest Freeway location in Cypress. All dishes at Anothai Cuisine are made with fresh, high-quality herbs an ... More >>

Like That Chain Restaurant? Try This Local One Instead

In the last couple of weeks, we've explored fun and funky Texas wines to drink in lieu of old standbys like Cabernet and Chardonnay and we've showcased local beers that can be enlisted to help wean your friends off adjunct lagers made by giant corporations. And just like we all have loved ones that ... More >>

Get $20 Worth of Food for $10 at Kim Son

There is hardly a Houston Press Best of Houston® award that Kim Son hasn't won, from Best Crab to Best Dim Sum -- twice. We've always been fans of the giant, pan-Asian palaces that serve everything from Vietnamese fajitas marinated in lemongrass to black pepper soft shell crabs. Oh, and some of the ... More >>

Kim Son Cafe in The Woodlands Disappoints

"Have you ever eaten at Kim Son Cafe ?" I recently asked a food-loving friend. "Are you kidding me?" he said. "I eat there at least once a week - they have some of the best food in the area." This was a meaningful statement coming from this particular friend, as he eats at some of the finest estab ... More >>

Food Fight: Battle Beignets

Photo by Matthew DresdenChez Beignets II​A few years ago, when I spent a month getting around Houston entirely by public transit, I found myself checking out from Central Market one warm spring evening at 10 p.m. It had just rained, and the air was fresh and cool, and I didn't feel like waitin ... More >>

Comment of the Day: The Authenticity Wars

​Commenter Kendra was dismayed to hear about plans for a revamped menu at Mai's from Katharine's Shilcutt's post on "Restaurants We're Excited About for 2011." But commenter Thanto wasn't buying it. Kendra says: Mai's will have an "updated menu"? Oh, no. I hope they don't become another K ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 2: Minh Nguyen of Café TH

Tam Vo​Today we continue our chat with Nguyen, discussing the obstacles to running a restaurant in a dead Chinatown, and why Café TH's banh mi is so good. EOW: Since this location is in a shell of what used to be the downtown Chinatown, what obstacles are you facing due to this and how are y ... More >>

Hurricane Rita Stories: You Suffered, So You Should At Least Win A $50 Kim Son Gift Card

Traffic, sure, but don't forget the crushing heat and humidity​Five years ago, the traffic jam of all Houston traffic jams was starting to build. If you were in it, you know what we mean.Just weeks after Katrina, Hurricane Rita was in the Gulf as a Cat 5 and seemingly headed for Houston. Panic set ... More >>

Get Your Yogurt, 39 Cents an Ounce

Strawberry cheesecake yogurt, complete with "graham cracker crust"​I'm a huge fan of the tart, almost acidic yogurt served up by the likes of Pinkberry and its numerous imitators. There's something terribly refreshing about eating a cold, puckery frozen yogurt on a hot summer day: no sticky, s ... More >>

A Soul-Warming Meal at Seoul House

Oustanding haemul dolsot at Seoul Kitchen.​"What's your favorite thing here?" I asked the young, blithesome girl who was waiting on us at Seoul House. Without hestitation, she quickly pointed to a ruddy-colored picture of haemul dolsot on the small menu. "This is the best. It's the only thing ... More >>

We Have Our 4th Of July Contest Winners!! Probably Not You!!

Photo by allison_b216​Thanks to everyone for the great response to our Fourth of July photo contest.You went out, you saw, you clicked, you uploaded to our Flickr page.And two of you won prizes. First place went to allison_b216 who, in addition to taking the winning shot, took the photo to t ... More >>

You Still Have Time To Enter Our 4th Of July Photo Contest

Your ticket to free food​Silly us, we thought everyone was taking Friday off instead of Monday to celebrate the Fourth.So we made the deadline for entering our photo contest 8 a.m. this morning. We've gotten a lot of great shots, but we don't want to penalize anyone who was too busy clicking and c ... More >>

Don't Forget Our 4th Of July Photo Contest -- Free Food For The Winner!!

Photo by AlphaTangoBravo/Adam Baker Fifty bucks of free food​Are you getting off tomorrow or Monday for the Fourth? There seems to be differing theories out there.Here in Hair Balls land, we're calling tomorrow the Fourth -- we'll still be posting plenty of stuff, so be sure to check in, th ... More >>

The 4th Of July Is Coming: Break Out The Cameras And Win Prizes

Free food and drink for the winners!!​The 4th of July is a holiday made for cameras, and we want to see your work.Take your best pictures showing the essence of the 4th -- whether it's a backyard barbecue, fireworks, or a drunk uncle knocking over lawn furniture -- and upload them to the Houston P ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

Wh... are those socks? Why did they serve me a pair of socks? I... I already have socks...​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we're currently petitioning the Olympics to add Comfort Eating as an event. Our training for the qualifiers has caused us to put on a po ... More >>

Tourist Dining Mistakes

​ 1. Pappasitos While there's nothing wrong with the food and the generous portions at this landmark Tex-Mex joint, there are so many other, better Tex-Mex places that you can't find in any other city. El Tiempo, for one, and probably a lot more that you should suggest in the comments.

Donut Patrol: Sesame Balls with Red Bean Paste

​The dim sum sesame balls at Chinese Cuisine, a new dim sum joint at 9888 Bellaire, were excellent -- they came to the table piping hot and filled with red bean jelly. The dim sum sesame balls with yellow bean paste featured in last week's Donut Patrol drew disparaging comments from connoisse ... More >>

Eating Out on Christmas Day? What's Open

​There will be plenty of things open on Christmas Day besides just presents. So don't despair if the Bumpus hounds eat your holiday turkey, you don't feel like cooking dinner or you simply don't celebrate a completely arbitrary day chosen as Christ's birthday simply because it fell on a conven ... More >>

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 >>

$13 at Kim Son on Jefferson

Bahn Xeo Buffet

Kim Son goes all-you-can-eat in a lavish new location on Bellaire

Hello, Yum Yum

A new Asian diner brings dinnertime dim sum to the Inner Loop

The Xiu Mai Super Bowl

A new champion in the dim sum game

Best Dim Sum

Best Suburban Mall

A Real Mix

Screw everything and go to the Sexxxtravaganza

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Dim Sum Restaurant

Kim Son

Wednesday Brunch

Golden Palace is Houston's top weekday dim sum destination

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Dating Hazard

Kim Son's Tiki Tumbler

Letters

Consuming Hate, Best and the Rest, Percentile Envy

Best Dim Sum

Kim Son

The Feng Shui of Dim Sum

Stay close to the kitchen if you want the best food at Kim Son.

Best Crabs

Kim Son, 2001 Jefferson, (713)222-2461

Empire of the Son

Kim Son keeps expanding - and keeps getting better

Lido's Lessons

1) Don't judge a restaurant by its building 2) Tofu isn't all bad

Dish

Soft and Crabby

Summer's the right time for many things -- but none better than soft-shell supping

To the Tapas

At Solero, small things add up to quite a lot

Cotswold Unspun

A group of weathy benefactors have a "gift" for the city. They say it won't cost taxpayers a nickel. But the fleecing may have already begun.

Downtown-on-the-Wold

Casualties of War

Houston's Vietnamese now call Texas home, but they continue to be haunted by ghosts of the conflict that drove them here

Great Tastes Jr.

Hong Kong Calling

The Imperial Palace serves Houston's classiest dim sum -- and then some

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