Sugar Land

The 5 Best Things to Eat or Drink This Weekend: Beers and Bowls for Charity, BrewFest and a Curry Crawl

Beers for Boston at The Railyard All weekend 4200 San Felipe The Railyard (the bar which famously replaced the old Roll-In Saloon) is hosting a mini tap-takeover and charity event to support victims of the marathon bombing in Boston. Through the end of May, The Railyard will donate proceeds from th ... More >>

Recap: The Sugar Land Wine & Food Affair Grand Tasting 2013

If there was one night a year to go crazy and totally overdose on food and wine, Friday night was definitely one of them. The Grand Tasting, signature event of the Sugar Land Wine & Food Festival sponsored by H-E-B, was every food and wine lover's dream come true, thanks to a who's who of some of Ho ... More >>

Upcoming Events: What Do Duck Dynasty and Robert Earl Keen Have in Common?

Any and all crawfish-eating you've been doing so far this season has just been practice for the main event: the annual Texas Crawfish Festival in Old Town Spring, which is coming up on April 19 through 21 and April 26 through 28. The festival has to be two weekends to pack in all the food and entert ... More >>

2012: The Year in Openings and Closings

Here it is. The wooly mammoth of a post that we provide to you as a public service every year. All of 2012's openings and closings, listed by month, without fanfare or commentary. This is just the nitty gritty of every single restaurant whose doors have shut or opened in the last 12 months. Enjoy. ... More >>

Burger Outpost

Guru Burgers & Crepes offers up stunning combinations of burgers and craft beer in Sugar Land.

Craft Beer & Crepes: First Look at Guru Burgers and Crepes in Sugar Land Town Square

Out of all the "town square" developments that have cropped up in Houston suburbs over the last few years, Sugar Land's Town Square has been one of the most successful. Along with Market Street in The Woodlands and CityCentre in Memorial, these neo-urban centers in traditionally suburban communities ... More >>

Openings & Closings: Blind Items and Other "Fun" Activities

A busier week than last gives us some bad news, some intriguing news, some good news and a couple of interesting blind items. Let's get that bad news out of the way first. Samba Grille closed last Saturday evening after service. The downtown restaurant -- which won our 2011 Best of Houston® award ... More >>

Upcoming Events: A Flurry of Festivals

With warmer weather ahead, food festivals are kicking off in earnest across the city, starting with the 17th annual Bayou City Cajun Fest on Saturday, April 14, and Sunday, April 15, at Trader's Village. Admission is free to the Cajun Fest, which runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. Plenty of home ... More >>

How to Become a Beerknurd at The Flying Saucer

If you want a place to try beer, the shiny new Flying Saucer in Sugar Land does everything it can to help you achieve that goal, and it does it in a way that makes you want to come back again and again. There are 86 beers on tap, and another hundred and some odd beers by the bottle. All told, the n ... More >>

Openings & Closings: L'Olivier Is Landing

First, chef Junnajet Hurrapan's new hotspot Blu opens up in Sugar Land's Town Square. Now, the development is getting another interesting addition. According to the weekly B4-U-Eat newsletter: The Japaneiro's people are opening Guru Burgers & Crepes at Sugar Land Town Square in May. It will serve g ... More >>

Welcome to Sugar Land, Skeeters!! Never Mind About the $24K Worth of Copper Stolen from Your Ballpark!

The new minor league baseball team the Sugar Land Skeeters got a nice introduction to their hometown over the New Year's weekend when thieves broke into the stadium the team is building and stole $24,000 worth of copper. Life in the big city, fellas. Fox 26 reports that 46 copper reels went missin ... More >>

New Year's Eve Party at Sugar Land Town Square

Openings & Closings: November 2011

Photo by Amber AmbroseEl Rey closed this week -- but which one?​Remember how busy of a month October was for openings and closings? November was a little slower, but not by much. In upcoming restaurants, one of our favorite bloggers reports that Calliope's is opening a second location of its ... More >>

Sugar Land Skeeters Go Old-School With Bullpen Cart; Two Classic Options They Could Have Used

Photo by Sugar Land SkeetersYou can't kill this "tradition."​The minor-league Sugar Land Skeeters have announced, not that we noticed, that they will be bringing back the not-so-noble tradition of the baseball-shaped bullpen cart when they start play next year. "The yet-to-be-named cart will ... More >>

Comment of the Day: Someone Liked Our Dead Fish Photos

​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

The Sugar Land Skeeters Gear Has Arrived

Fear the Skeeter!!!​You didn't like the name of Sugar Land's new minor-league team. Maybe you'll like the gear. On the other hand, since it's proudly emblazoned with the Skeeters name, it all may take some getting used to. The Sugar Land Skeeters have begun selling shirts and caps at an onli ... More >>

Sugar Land Baseball Stadium Name: You Think You Hated Skeeters?

You are looking (not) LIVE at StarTex Power Field!!!​The people behind the new minor-league baseball team in Sugar Land -- fresh off annoying many people with their choice of "Skeeters" for the team name -- have announced the name of their new $30 million stadium. Fun at the ol' ballpark will ... More >>

It's The Sugar Land Skeeters, Like It Or Not

Talkin' baseball....​Sugar Land's minor league baseball team has a name, and it's one of the three finalists that no one seemed that enthused about. No, it's not the Lizard Kings. It's the Skeeters. Apparently already trademarked and unavailable were the Sugar Land DeLays, the Sugar Land Drac ... More >>

Sugar Land's Big-Time Minor League Stadium

Illustrations via city of Sugar landNothing minor-league about this​We were gone on vacation last week, so we missed the unveiling, on Sugar Land's municipal website, of the proposed new minor-league stadium. The city is seeking bids on a contractor to build the $30 million facility according ... More >>

Sugar Land's Baseball Team: And The Finalists For Team Name Are...All Terrifically Bad

Jim Morrison: HUGE in Sugar Land -- who knew?​Sugar Land, as most people who care know, is getting a minor league baseball team and a new stadium to house them.As is part of the textbook for these things, the owners had a contest for suggestions on what the team should be named. Usually they have ... More >>

Azuma on the Lake

Sugar Land Picks A Site For Its Minor League Baseball Stadium

Coming to Sugar Land....​Minor league baseball is coming to Sugar Land, and it will be near the old Imperial Sugar factory that gave the city its name.The Sugar Land city council chose from among three options last night on where to build a stadium, and it picked a site near the intersection of Hi ... More >>

Shogi Hibachi Express

Sugar Land Gets Ready To Abase Itself To Google

​Google, which is a company that is web-related (we think), is asking communities around the nation to abase themselves in a competition to get an experimental ultra-high-speed fiber system that can deliver the net at more than one gigabyte a second.That is about twice as fast as a system that del ... More >>

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

It's raining cats...no, wait, make that fried catfish

Openings and Closings: 2009 Edition

​The year gone by marked some very exciting restaurant openings (such as Haven, Branchwater Tavern, Yelapa Playa Mexicana and Stella Sola) and some equally important closings (such as Cafe Annie, Bedford, Las Alamedas and Felix Mexican Restaurant). To close out the yea ... More >>

Cloud 9ers

​Famous for out-beefing the local competition with their 9-ounce burgers, 9ers is one of those diners that boast a menu of everything under the sun, so long as it's fried. It's not fancy and it's never cool, but if you're going to do something wrong, this is where you go to do it right. Laced ... More >>

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Stop, thief!

Top 5 Sweets of Sugar Land

Wrong, but right: Oreo Pizookie​Imperial Sugar may not actually produce sugar in Sugar Land anymore, but even as dust collects on the factory smokestacks and the museum leads tours through the old warehouse, there are still a number of bakeries, breweries and cafes making Sugar Land's namesake ... More >>

Bike & Bugs II

Web exclusive!

Loggia Brings Uptown to Sugar Land with an Ultramodern Sports Bar

Trainsmash Burger at Out of Africa

Trainsmash is a South African tomato and onion sauce--a trainsmash burger comes slathered in the stuff. This one also had lettuce, fresh tomato and mayonnaise. I liked the condiments alright, it was the burger patty that was the problem. Out of Africa, the South African restaurant at Sugar Creek a ... More >>

Peri-Peri Burger: It Seemed Like a Great Idea at the Time

The peri-peri burger at Out of Africa, the new South African restaurant on Southwest Freeway in Sugar Land, is a hamburger topped with the legendary hot sauce made with African bird peppers. And since I love peri-peri chicken, peri-peri prawns and peri-peri everything else, I figured this one was a ... More >>

Bayousphere

Sugar Land, Missouri City Get Into The Entertainment Business

Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra: An Evening Under the Stars

Héctor Agüero Jr. takes the baton for the first time as FBSO conductor

Big Plans in Little Sugar Land: Pro Baseball and Concerts Coming to the Brazos?

$7 at Mi Luna Tapas Restaurant & Bar in Sugar Land

Bayousphere

BAKER STREET PUB & GRILL'S

MONICA LEWINSKY

Finding the Write Candidate

We're Number 3! We're Number 3!

Split Personality

Japaneiro's Sushi Bistro and Latin Grill

On Their Backs

Sugar Land spreads its legs

Home Alone

A raid on an end-of-year teen party leads to heavy-duty punishments and angry parents

Charity Begins at Home

Land of Azúcar

Japaneiro’s Sushi Bistro & Latin Grill in Sugar Land certainly is living up to its name

Egg Beaters

The hunt is on

Cattle Drive

Ruth's Chris

Manna from Sugar Land

Magnus Hansson's new bakery-cafe is worth an expedition