Tampico

Crazy for Crawfish

Houston's 10 best mudbug joints.

Top 10 Restaurants Near Hobby Airport

One of the questions I get most frequently from friends who travel is this: Why isn't there anywhere to eat around Hobby Airport? To which I say: There are lots of places. You're not looking hard enough. Hobby is one of those parts of town that requires a finer-toothed comb than, say, the Montrose ... More >>

Gustavo Arellano on Houston's Inherent Insecurity and Insultingly Racist Food Trucks

Gustavo Arellano -- a.k.a. "Ask a Mexican!" himself -- doesn't shy away from having strong opinions or expressing them. It's what has made Arellano into a popular columnist, author and public speaker over the years and what's bringing him to Houston on November 15 to kick off the University of Houst ... More >>

Top 5 Bakeries in The Woodlands

Confession: I have a serious addiction to baked goods. This addiction includes -- but is certainly not limited to -- cakes, brownies, muffins, bagels, cookies, wheat breads, pies, donuts, cupcakes, cinnamon rolls, kolaches, danishes, and pastries of all sorts. When it comes to these divine carb-fill ... More >>

Hooked on La Fisheria

Celebrity chef Aquiles Chavez introduces Houston to the modern Mexican food he left behind in his home country.

Here's a List of All the Restaurants You'll Get to Taste at Menu of Menus 2012

In my years of covering and attending our yearly Menu of Menus event, I've never been quite as excited for the grand tasting as I am this year. Why? In addition to the first annual Iron Fork competition -- which pits two of Houston's best young chefs against each other, Iron Chef-style, while chef ... More >>

Bartender Chat: Eddie of Julia's Bistro

After passing by many times on the way to or from Big Top or Continental Club, I finally hopped the Metro to visit Julia's, the Latin-fusion bistro at the corner of Main and West Alabama. It was 5 p.m. on Tuesday when I walked through the vibrant dining room, grabbed a seat, ordered a glass of wine ... More >>

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Seafood Restaurants

For the next 20 weeks, we'll be rounding up the runners-up to our 2011 Best of Houston® winners. In many categories, picking each year's winner is no easy task. We'll be spotlighting 20 of those categories, in which the winner had hefty competition from other Houston bars and restaurants.

Top 5: Mexican Restaurants

Pico's Mex-Mex.​If Kevin Shalin's Top 5 Sandwiches was controversial, it will probably have nothing on my picks for the best Mexican eateries in a town where fajitas and 'ritas reign supreme. Although I have no Mexican blood in my heritage, like many Houstonians, I was raised on a taco- and ... More >>

Mexicans Determined to Shop in U.S. Charter a Plane

The only way to shop​Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a group of Mexican nationals trying to fly over the drug cartel violence in the northern part of their country to get to stores in McAllen, Texas. As the amount of gunfighting and unease continues to mount in Mexico an ... More >>

Froggie Goes a Grilling

Grilled frog legs with cornbread and purple hull peas: a Texas summer dinner.​At least one of the bizarre conclusions drawn by some readers from last week's post about the impending "foodie backlash" was that I hate frog legs. More specifically, that I hate local frog legs and the restaurants ... More >>

Robb Walsh's 100 Favorite Houston Dishes #1 Oysters Gilhooley at Gilhooley's Raw Bar in San Leon

​For a slideshow of all Robb's favorite 100 dishes, click here. Over the course of the past few months, I've counted down 100 of my favorite Houston dishes. I chose some because they are such quintessential Houston creations, others for their cultural or historical significance, and others b ... More >>

Robb Walsh's 100 Favorite Houston Dishes #2: Fajitas at the Original Ninfa's on Navigation

​Over the course of the next few months, I'm counting down 100 of my favorite Houston dishes. I chose some because they are such quintessential Houston creations, others for their cultural or historical significance, and others because they are just so damn tasty. Share your own nominations in ... More >>

Robb Walsh's 100 Favorite Houston Dishes #3 Snapper on a Sizzling Comal at Tampico

​Over the course of the next few months, I'm counting down 100 of my favorite Houston dishes. I chose some because they are such quintessential Houston creations, others for their cultural or historical significance, and others because they are just so damn tasty. Share your own nominations in ... More >>

Robb Walsh's 100 Favorite Houston Dishes #4 Campechana at Goode Company Seafood

​Over the course of the next few months, I'm counting down 100 of my favorite Houston dishes. I chose some because they are such quintessential Houston creations, others for their cultural or historical significance, and others because they are just so damn tasty. Share your own nominations in ... More >>

Strip Mall Hopping

Where to eat at 5800 Bellaire.

Food Fight: Battle Ceviche

Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​In keeping with our recent trend of expanding the weekly food fights to encompass more than just burgers and donuts, this week's battle pitted two restaurants against one another to see who could craft the finest fish dish. Ceviche is made differently from country ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 reg ... More >>

Keep on Trucking

The tacos at this Bellaire Boulevard taquería might remind you of the ones you get from a taco truck.

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 ser ... More >>

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 sea ... More >>

$13 at Tampico Seafood Restaurant

$13 at Tampico Seafood Restaurant

T-Bone Tom's Steakhouse Restaurant

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

Fish on its Laurels

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

Fish a la Plancha

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

Esquivel

The Sights and Sounds of Esquivel!

Best Mariscos

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

Fish Fraud

Passing off cheap fish for expensive red snapper is against the law. But no one enforces the regulations. So Texas restaurants are free to rip you off.

Patriotic Excess

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

The Authenticity Myth

The Mex-Mex issue

Stirred and Shaken

Tampico's michelada

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

What Tex-Mex?

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

Cool, Calm and Culinary

At benjy's, a tasteful restraint is a harbinger of a tasteful meal