Subject: Seafood

• $13 at Tampico Seafood Restaurant

  August 10, 2007

• Oysters Out of Season

  September 5, 2007

• $13 at Tampico Seafood Restaurant

  August 10, 2007

• Oysters Out of Season

  September 5, 2007

• $13 at Pesquera’s Ocean Grill & Oyster Bar

  February 3, 2008

• Sex, Death and Oysters: Bigger Really Is Better

  February 18, 2008

• Sex, Death & Oysters: Texas Oysters at $46 a Dozen

  February 27, 2008

• Order your Holiday Oysters Now

  The French eat more oysters per capita than anybody in the Western world. And 80% of the oysters in France are eaten during the holiday season--from a few days before Christmas until a little after New Year's Day. Why? Because oysters are at their peak this time of year. And they go so well with the holiday feasts. To me, the holidays wouldn't seem complete without oysters. But I've been disappointed by Galveston Bay oysters this season. Luckily the bivalves from Espiritu Santo Bay down around

  December 23, 2008

• The King Catfish Ranch

  If you're looking for shining examples of the local indigenous cuisine while driving Highway 59 through East Texas and you've already had your fill of barbecue then its time to pull over for some catfish. I purchased this fried catfish dinner with cole slaw, french fries, odd cylindrical hush puppies and fried pickles at the Atlanta (Texas) David Beard Catfish King restaurant. I seem to recall the meal was $3.99 without the fried pickles. David Beard, The Catfish King, is a local legend in thes

  January 9, 2009

• Oyster Lovers Unite: Five Places to Eat Oysters This Valentine's Weekend

  February 12, 2009

• Over-the-Top Chophouse at Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse

  January 1, 2009

• Bombay Salad and Colossal Shrimp at King's Inn

  December 18, 2008

• Potent Cocktail at Guayaba Latin Grill

  November 27, 2008

• Flounder Fanmail for Jimmy Wilson's Seafood & Chop House

  October 16, 2008

• Get Grilled at Culinary Kreations Cafe

  October 2, 2008

• Baked Rolls at Sushi Nikko

  August 7, 2008

• Voice: Tastes Great, Less Filling

  The food at Voice in the Hotel Icon is fabulous. Too bad the place is such a rip.

  July 10, 2008

• Great Stuff at Abe's Cajun Market

  May 1, 2008

• Fish Frenzy at Tokyo One

  Pile your plate with scads of sashimi at this new all-you-can-eat Japanese buffet

  February 7, 2008

• Cajun Gets a Crewcut at Denis' Seafood House

  January 31, 2008

• Danton's Gulf Coast Seafood Kitchen

  The newest Gulf seafood joint in town is knocking them dead with cheap oysters and awesome gumbo

  December 13, 2007

• Valentino's Seafood

  A Texas shrimper is finding out how hard it is to run a seafood restaurant in Houston

  November 1, 2007

• Brasserie Max and Julie

  We love to see classic French food in Houston, but we complain bitterly if it isn't just like what we had in Paris

  September 20, 2007

• Segari's

  Plain and Simple

  September 13, 2007

• T-Beaux

  Sunny Oysters

  September 6, 2007

• Reef

  Chef Bryan Caswell is putting a new spin on Gulf red snapper and serving up some fish you've never heard of

  September 6, 2007

• Nino's

  Nino's turns 30, and Houstonians want gelato with their Italian birthday cake

  March 29, 2007

• Half Shell Face-Off

  Compare East Coast oysters to Gulf Coast oysters and see what you think

  December 28, 2006

• Split Personality

  PK's Blue Water Grill has the soul of a funky fish house and the body of a fashionable seafood restaurant

  December 21, 2006

• Jazz and Oysters

  The cocktail lounge at Tommy's is the perfect antidote for Norman Rockwell holidays

  December 7, 2006

• Montrose Vindaloo

  Is Indika the best Indian restaurant in the United States?

  October 12, 2006

• Catch the Wave

  Lance Fegen's "New American Surfer Bistro" is like, epic, dude!

  September 28, 2006

• Fish on its Laurels

  Gaido's in Galveston doesn't always live up to its storied reputation

  July 20, 2006

• Crabs and More

  Forno's of Italy

  June 29, 2006

• The Cajun Cocktail Queens

  Get your spicy mudbugs and fried shrimp and join the party at Floyd's

  April 20, 2006

• The Pacific Ocean Grill

  The seafood is succulent and the scene is somnolent at Joyce's new joint on Westheimer

  April 6, 2006

• Fish a la Plancha

  Great Gulf seafood in a mom-and-pop Mexican joint is a combination that's hard to beat

  February 16, 2006

• The Hamachi on Pluto

  A new sushi restaurant on NASA Parkway boldly takes raw fish beyond old expectations

  February 2, 2006

• I Am the Walrus, Part 2

  Oysters on the half shell aren't the only attraction at the old Magnolia

  January 26, 2006

• I Am the Walrus, Part 1

  Winter is prime time at Willie G's oyster bar

  January 19, 2006

• No Nobu

  Latino-Asian fusion cuisine isn’t as easy as some famous chefs make it look

  November 17, 2005

• From Sea to Shining Seafood Platter

  Photos by J.C. Reid Coming to a seafood platter near youChances are that if you eat seafood in Houston on a regular basis then Jim Gossen provides at least some of it. Gossen is the founder and CEO of Louisiana Foods, one of Houston's largest seafood distributors. The history of Louisiana Foods reads like the recent history of the seafood business in Southeast Texas and South Louisiana. In 1972 Gossen teamed up with Billy and Floyd Landry to start the first Don's Seafood restaurant in Mo

  May 8, 2009

• Goodbye Mak Chin's, Hello Shuck Daddy's

  June 25, 2009

• Gators and Gumbo

  July 16, 2009

• The Meaning of Mojarra

  Photo by Robb Walsh​After more than a week of fishing in Arkansas, I headed for Taqueria Jesus Maria as soon as I got back to town. I had Tex-Mex in mind, but I skipped the enchiladas when I saw the special on a whole fried mojarra. I love to eat the crispy fried fish chunks on a hot corn tortilla with lettuce, tomato, guacamole and lots of salsa. Slashing the meaty part of the fish to the bone, sprinkling it with seasoning, and then frying it whole is an easy and delicious way to cook a w

  July 27, 2009

• Seabrook Seafood Stores Are Back

  Photos by Robb Walsh​Beeline snapper was $4 a pound and American red snapper was $6 a pound at the dockside seafood markets in Seabrook a few days ago. Big gulf shrimp were $3.95 a pound -- cheaper if you bought five pounds or more. The dock for Gulf shrimp boats in Seabrook is still functioning, despite the debris from hurricane Ike that litters the area.

  August 20, 2009

• Battleground Fried Shrimp

  August 27, 2009

• First Look: Eddie V's Prime Seafood

  Photos courtesy of Eddie V'sChilean sea bass​The first thing you notice at Eddie V's Prime Seafood, the newest mini-chain addition to Town & Country's enormous CityCentre development, are the white waistcoats on the servers. Yup, it's that kind of place. It's traditional, even retro, in layout and style, with a few key modern touches--especially on the menu--that keep things 21st century. The lounge is total throwback, complete with cocktail menu, live lounge music and so much relaxed mas

  October 14, 2009

• Mojarra Frita at Cocina de Colima

  J. C. Reid ​Colima is a small state in western Mexico, bordering on the Pacific Ocean. You don't hear a lot about cuisine from Colima, but apparently it's well-known in Mexico and best known for its seafood, mainly grilled and fried fish, and its ceviche. In a testament to the diversity of regional cuisines in Houston, we have a restaurant called Cocina de Colima (3356 Fountain View) that specializes in food from this Mexican state. I visited Cocina de Colima as part of a recent taco truc

  October 29, 2009

• Ceviche at El Sinaloense

  ​On the southwest side of Baytown, sandwiched between the giant ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery and the City Hall, is a neighborhood I call "old Baytown." It's an area of older shops and houses, with what appears to be a largely Hispanic population. Market Street runs through the middle of it. I came here one Saturday morning to visit a Mexican seafood restaurant I had heard about called El Sinaloense (3002 Market St.). Patronized by local Mexican Americans as well as blue- and white-collar w

  November 3, 2009