Subject: Tampico

• $13 at Tampico Seafood Restaurant

  August 10, 2007

• $13 at Tampico Seafood Restaurant

  August 10, 2007

• Cool, Calm and Culinary

  May 16, 1996

• The Sister Cities Of Houston: A Critical Appraisal, Part Two

  With the recent addition of Karachi, Pakistan, Houston now is a sister to 18 other cities around the world. Hair Balls is on the case - we studied all of them so you wouldn't have to. See the first half here.Sister: Luanda, AngolaHow we are sisterly: Houston's only African sister is yet another seaport/oil hub and its population (4.8 million) and hot climate are similar to ours. There is also this from Wikipedia: "Luanda's roads are currently in a poor state of repair, but are currently undergo

  March 13, 2009

• Use Your Noodle

  From the strange store next door to the mystery bits in the soup, there's plenty to ponder at Arepas & Empanadas Gourmet

  October 10, 2002

• T-Bone Tom's Steakhouse Restaurant

  Visit T-Bone Tom's and help keep Kemah weird

  July 5, 2007

• Fish on its Laurels

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

  July 20, 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

• Esquivel

  The Sights and Sounds of Esquivel!

  September 8, 2005

• Best Mariscos

  September 23, 2004

• Fish Fraud

  November 1, 2001

• Patriotic Excess

  Luxurious Vallone’s most interesting new menu items arean early casualty of the war

  October 25, 2001

• The Authenticity Myth

  The Mex-Mex issue

  October 26, 2000

• Stirred and Shaken

  Tampico's michelada

  October 12, 2000

• Eighth Wonder of the Cajun World

  Cavernous as the Dome, Rodeaux shouts for attention with a funky menu that wants to be all things Deep South

  May 11, 2000

• What Tex-Mex?

  The fish is so good at Tampico, you'll ignore its other treats

  October 21, 1999

• Openings and Closings

  Lovers of Belgian cuisine have another reason to rejoice other than Catherine Duwez's increasingly common Cafe Montrose dinners: Former co-owner Andrew Klarman is opening Jeannine's Bistro this week with his sister, Jeaninne Petras. The cafe will be located at Westheimer/Elgin and Bagby and will serve the standard Belgian fare -- moules et frites -- along with other Belgian and French dishes. The cafe will be open for lunch and dinner and while it currently has a very small seating area, they ho

  July 17, 2009

• Keep on Trucking

  August 13, 2009

• Donut Patrol: David Landsel

  ​David Landsel, the travel editor of the New York Post, stopped over in Houston on his way to Mexico City earlier this week. He asked me to take him to a regional Mexican restaurant. So we went to Tampico, where he took photos of his Vuelva a la Vida seafood cocktail for blog posterity. I also took Landsel to the market stalls behind Canino's, where he ate his first guayaba and admired the leafy green herbs. Then we checked out the pan muerto at El Bolillo and the spices at Texas Culinary

  October 29, 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