Photos by Katharine Shilcutt
Vaya con dios, Taco CabanaThe intersection of Montrose and Westheimer is nothing if not mutable. From being a sleepy residential neighborhood in the 1920s to the 40s to a run-down hangout for drug addicts and rough types in the 1970s and early 80s to a haven for LGBT community in the late 80s and throughout the 90s to the rapidly gentrifying area it is today with million-dollar townhomes and upscale restaurants, Montrose is always changing.
The restaur
On Thursday, April 30th, restaurants in over 50 cities across the nation are inviting patrons to dine out for life.
The event was created in 1991 to support AIDS research in Philadelphia and has since spread to the rest of the United States. Last year saw more than 3,500 restaurants participating and more than $4 million raised for AIDS charities nationwide.
Locally, all proceeds from the annual event, now in its third year, will go to AIDS Foundation Houston, a non-profit that has been fig
Guy Fieri
Once again, a national eye has turned to Houston, which the rest of the country tends to dismiss out of hand as not being a food town. Guy Fieri's popular Food Network show -- Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives -- has spent the last few weeks filming at various restaurants around town, leading to massive speculation about which "dives" were being visited. Because Houston is a city that takes its dives just as seriously as its fine dining, food lovers throughout the town were w
Golden-brown is the proper tone for any loaf of sourdough / Hollywood starlet.Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where today we're bitterly sniffling at the fact that everyone else from the office is at the Austin City Limits festival. It's cool! There's lots of fun stuff to do in Houston, too, you know! Bastards.
We hope you've been following along all week, and got to experience first-hand the epic sourdough odyssey begun on Monday by Robb Walsh. It started wi
This week's food fight was determined by our Twitter followers to be Battle Gyro. And because we don't want them to have all the fun, we're letting our readers decide which two restaurants in Houston will do battle this week.
The easy money is on Niko Niko's, or even Al's Quick Stop as the dark horse. But instead of choosing the obvious choices, we want to make sure there isn't a gyro place out there that you feel has been horribly and undeservedly ignored. Is there a Greek place in Pear
The Food Network's hugely successful show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives recently visited Niko Niko's Greek restaurant in Montrose. Amidst owner Dimitri Fetokakis's banter with hyper host Guy Fieri was this little nugget of information: Niko Niko's no longer slow-marinates its legendary lamb shank. Rather, it uses a new-fangled "food tumbler" which claims to achieve 24 hours worth of marinating in 20 minutes.
That's a big difference. I've been going to Niko Niko's for at least 15 years, sta
Liven up your Halloween parties this year with some carne asada con silly string.
Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we defiantly eat summer sausage in the winter and we don't care who knows it. We kicked off this week at a sort of cookout triathlon with a plot of Texas land on the line. J.C. Reid likes his steaks like he likes his women: rare, aggressively seasoned, and shared with a drooling audience.
E. Ting chatted up Remington Restaurant's executive
