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Tony Vallone

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Expense-Account Restaurants

    For the next 20 weeks, we'll be rounding up the runners-up to our 2011 Best of HoustonĀ® 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. 10. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Openings & Closings: Manly Cupcakes and Tiff's Treats

    This week finds two new bakeries coming to town, which couldn't be more different from one another, as well as two extremely interesting pieces of gossip from our ever-reliable sources. Ranch Bakery (5431 Barker Cypress, Suite 500), which describes itself as "Houston's first manly bakery," is havin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    R.I.P.: A Toast to the Restaurants We'll Miss the Most

    Photo by Robb WalshAlas! No more salchi-burgers from Brisa Cocina Mexicana.​While toasts are usually reserved for happier events or for New Year's Eve, we thought it appropriate to toast the dearly departed restaurants which closed this past year, wishing those who had to close them future suc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Houston's Own Artisanal Gelato

    Marcelo Kreindel, owner of Trentino Gelato The dulce de leche gelato was masterful: velvety smooth with that familiar thick sweetness, but not overwhelmingly so.  Some dulce de leche treats take on an overpowering, sickly sweet caramel flavor, but not this gelato.  Th ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 5, 2005

    Fertitta's Dynasty of Dining

    Love him or hate him, Tilman has turned the region into the land of Landry's

  • Dining

    April 18, 2002

    Continental Error-lines

    Scott Tycer tries to clear up the confusion over continental cuisine

  • Dining

    April 12, 2001

    Still Your Father's Tony's

    When Tony's gets rid of its outdated attitudes, we'll have some reason to go back

  • News

    March 1, 2001

    Pie in the Sky

    A competitor's overcooked claims can't knock a feisty newcomer out of downtown's pizza wars

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    Goodnight, Miss Moonlight

    Maxine Mesinger departs for the big swankienda in the sky

  • Dining

    June 15, 2000

    Peter Pan Cuisine

    When you believe in a place like Tony's, everything tastes better

  • Dining

    April 1, 1999

    Death by Cash Flow

    When you believe in a place like Tony's, everything tastes better

  • Dining

    November 19, 1998

    Bayou Moderne

    With Gregory's, chef Greg Webb has the restaurant he deserves.

  • News

    August 6, 1998

    Mama Ninfa and her Comeback Kids

    Ninfa Laurenzo's children return to the kitchen

  • News

    September 25, 1997

    The Outsider

    Ninfa Laurenzo's children return to the kitchen

  • News

    February 27, 1997

    Letters

    Ninfa Laurenzo's children return to the kitchen

  • News

    February 13, 1997

    Unbelievable! Fabulous! World Class! Outstanding!

    Ninfa Laurenzo's children return to the kitchen

  • News

    February 13, 1997

    The Insider

    Ninfa Laurenzo's children return to the kitchen

  • Dining

    March 9, 1995

    The Other Mandola's

    An East End deli with Italian-American soul

  • Dining

    March 2, 1995

    The Other Mandola's

    An East End deli with Italian-American soul

  • News

    December 29, 1994

    The Year of Living Anxiously

    Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?

  • News

    June 30, 1994

    Food Fight

    The Landrys came to Houston with good food and good ideas. But a good family squabble let Tilman Fertitta step in and carve himself an empire.

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