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Top 10 Restaurants in Houston's Little India

As we enter the new year, I'm trying to make good on a few resolutions starting on the very first day of 2013. And one of those is to get outside the Loop a bit more -- even though a great bounty of amazing restaurants have opened inside the Loop in the last 12 months -- and back to exploring the re ... More >>

Doshi House Does It All

Third Ward coffeehouse is an art space, community meetingspot and vegetarian cafe in one.

A Fire at the Broken Spoke

Roy de la Garza on what's next.

Openings & Closings: New Locations for Pappa Geno's and the Great W'Kana

The restaurant that Eater Houston called the most anticipated opening of the year is here, so anticipate no more: The Pass & Provisions had its soft opening on Wednesday night and will be open for business this weekend. No surprise there, as the two-in-one restaurant from Seth Siegel-Gardner and Ter ... More >>

Paneer on Bombay Pizza

If you haven't tried it yet, you're missing out.

Bombay Pizza: A Downtown Beacon on Main Street

It's often tempting to refer to restaurants as beacons, especially if they're bright points in otherwise dark areas (whether metaphorically or literally). I once referred to Moon Tower Inn this way, noting the power that the hot-dogs-and-beer joint had to draw people in like moths to a flame. It wa ... More >>

Trishna

Michael Winterbottom takes Hardy's Tess to today's Mumbai.

National Dry Martini Day & My 21st Birthday

Your Neighborhood Coffee House: Doshi House Cafe

The gentrification of the the Wards has been an ongoing debate, but for those against it, it seems to be a losing battle, as expensive townhomes and gated communities have steadily overtaken the neighborhoods. Many historic buildings have been casualties. Deepak Doshi, a University of Houston alum, ... More >>

The Top 15 Bands To Come Out Of CBGB

​Today is the 35th anniversary of the Ramones' first gig at New York City club CBGB. The Bowery venue would be an integral part of punk-rock history, with the bands who played there nightly in its musty confines becoming the legends that would pave the way for millions of bands to come. CBGB ... More >>

Top Five: Cheap Booze

​After mastering a tartly correct margarita three years ago, I decided to keep going, and make every classic cocktail that doesn't involve weird liquor. Sixty-nine, so far. As I searched bartending sites, mixology blogs, culinary forums, print stuff and liquor reviews, these bottles of gin, v ... More >>

Bombay Pizza Company: Perfect for an Oscar Party

The Slumdog.​With Academy Awards season upon us again, I have a recommendation for your Oscar party, sure to increase the number of folks in your social network, and that, my friends, is Bombay Pizza Company downtown. I've wanted to try the Indian-Italian fusion-y joint since its inception b ... More >>

Dining Out on Christmas Day? Here's What's Open

achristmasstoryhouse.com"It's a beautiful duck. It's just that...it's SMILING at me." ​Does the thought of preparing another holiday meal under the scrutinizing glare of your mother-in-law make you want to shoot your eye out? The holidays are stressful enough without the pressure of preparing ... More >>

Day Of The [Digital] Dead

No! Not...that guy!​Yesterday was the 23rd annual World AIDS Day, dedicated to raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and remembering those who have succumbed to the disease. It's a sobering occasion. Over 25 million have died of the disease since 1981, and some 33 million live with the infection n ... More >>

The Five Most Annoying Christmas Ads

Anyone who's watched football (or What Not to Wear, we guess) recently knows that the onslaught has begun: The horror of Christmas commercials. These heinous 30-second bits of torture can abuse viewers in several ways. Here are five of the worst. 5. Jewelry for the Meek, Submissive Weaker Sex Whet ... More >>

Sick of Turkey? Order a Pizza: Our Top 5 Pizza Places

Photo courtesy of luna715Look at you, eating your Star Pizza off a real dinner plate. Oh, you fancy, huh?​Not all of us are like the Old Man in A Christmas Story; we aren't all turkey fiends. Some of us are happy to have it once a year and then forget the bland white meat even exists. So while ... More >>

Your Heinous Co-Workers

Their ten most annoying habits

The 10 Most Annoying Cubicle Habits, As Reported By Your Co-Workers

Work is hell​The sniffling-and-coughing season is upon us, so that means it's time to get highly, highly annoyed by the idiots in the nearby cubicles at your office.Not our office, you understand. We have terrific, totally un-annoying co-workers. You guys out there, though, you gotta lot a problem ... More >>

Late-Night Scene: Bombay Pizza Co.

​Bombay Pizza Co. (914 Main Street) adds chutneys and tandoori flavors and make extremely unique -- and extremely delicious -- pizza. Since it's a downtown destination, we chose to park for free in Midtown and catch the rail straight down Main Street to the Main Street Square exit. The restau ... More >>

Shadowbox Cinema

My body's too Boob-alicious for ya, babe

Brew Blog: Indian Food and Real Ale Brewing Co.'s Phoenixx Double ESB

​This week on Brew Blog: a suggested beer pairing. We stumbled on this one last week after cooking up an Indian feast at home (dal, Bombay potatoes, veggies, naan). Thinking of the ginger, garlic, cumin, turmeric, coriander and mustard seed madness to come, we wagered a bet on a beer we hadn' ... More >>

The 5 Smelliest Foods You Should Never Bring to the Office

Photo courtesy of Passive-Aggressive Notes​Two things happened this week that predicated this post. Number one: We brought a vegetable tray to our weekly staff meeting. This was onerous enough in and of itself, as the Houston Press staffers are accustomed to chips and cookies of indeterminate ... 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 >>

Bartender Rawad Semaan of The Grove

Photo by Sarah Rufka​To see Rawad Semaan behind the bar or patrolling the floor at The Grove (1611 Lamar St., 713-337-7321) with his impeccable suit and easy smile, you'd think he's never done anything else. But in reality his success -- Beverage Director at one of the city's hottest new resta ... More >>

The Great Indian Laughter Nite

How do you say ha-ha in Hindi?

Downtown Houston is the Way of the Future...According to India

Photo courtesy of WikipediaHouston? Nope, it's the Bandra-Kurla Complex in MumbaiApparently urban planners in every corner of the world have decided that downtown Houston is the Way of the Future, at least if the BBC and the Times of India are to be believed. Last Friday, the Beeb reported that Hou ... More >>

Naya Daur (New Age)

Hooray for Bollywood

Surprise food at Bombay to Beijing

For The Person Who Has Everything - A Double Wall Stainless Steel Tiffin

Photos by Jay Francis I discovered Payal at 5615 Savoy (just off of Harwin near Hillcroft) a few years ago when I went in search of some Indian stainless steel cookware. The Indians do spectacular things with stainless steel: dishes, cups, teapots, pressure cookers...you name it. And when I walke ... More >>

A Houston Connection To That Mumbai Terror Attack

Photo by stutiIt's a bright day of publicity for one Houston firm -- they're getting written up in papers and on websites all over the globe.On the other hand, they're getting written up for a (somewhat tenuous) connection with the horrific terrorist attacks in Mumbai last year, so it's not an unvar ... More >>

Megacities: 12 Stories of Survival

Life in the not-so-fast lane

Bombay Salad and Colossal Shrimp at King's Inn

Emmett, Also, Visits With The Sikh Family That Said It Was Harassed

The Sikh family that says it was harassed by Harris County Sheriff's deputies has been getting to know county politicians more than they might have guessed.Over the weekend, sheriff-elect Adrian Garcia met with the family and many other Sikhs; yesterday is was County Judge Ed Emmett.Emmett apologize ... More >>

Bollywood Meets Hollywood in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire

Game-Show Masala

Chatter's Ever-So-HandyAC/DCtionary

Rock Around the Clock

Vikram Chandra and Mayra Montero

Indian-born Chandra joins Cuban-born Montero for an evening of international storytelling

From Mumbai, with Drums

Escalator Buffet

Bombay Brasserie's new second-story location will have to do for the time being

Bolly Good Time

Serenity Now!

The night is white at Suchu Dance's Maximal Schnapper

Best Vegetarian Indian Buffet

Bombay Sweets & Pure Vegetarian Restaurant

Chaat Room

The candy's dandy, but the veggies are even better at Bombay Sweets

Goat Doughnuts Go Global

The Hot Breads franchise serves unique pastries to a worldwide audience

Bombay Beach Memoirs

Lunch with Darayus Kolah

News of the Weird

Curries and Quietude

A brasserie that's anything but brassy

Press Picks

Dish

Vikram's Kimberly Moment

A simple Bombay boy from Montrose is poised to cross another border