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Take-Out Fake-Outs: 5 Summer Barbecue Recipes Lightened-Up

We love Friday-night pizza or lazy-Sunday Thai delivery as much as the next guys -- but we can't say the same for our waistlines. Luckily, we have a few tricks up our sleeves. By remaking your favorite take-out foods at home, you can get all the pleasure...with none of the guilt. All it takes is a f ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Baked Crab Cakes & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredient's I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Loaded Chili Dogs & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredient's I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

Deer Lease Chic at LA Bar

LA Bar offers comfortable food and surroundings, especially for men who like sports, hunting, fishing and golf.

Take-Out Fake-Outs: 5 More Favorites Lightened-Up

We love Friday-night pizza or lazy-Sunday Thai delivery as much as the next guys -- but we can't say the same for our waistlines. Luckily, we have a few tricks up our sleeves. By remaking your favorite take-out foods at home, you can get all the pleasure...with none of the guilt. All it takes is a f ... More >>

10 Dishes We're Excited About on Houston Restaurants' New Fall Menus

Roost Bistro is one of the restaurants with an exciting fall menu. Fall means looking forward to more than just oyster season, chili cook-offs and pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks. It means that plenty of our favorite restaurants (and, yes, bars too) across the city are issuing new seasonal menus ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Grilled BBQ Chicken Thighs, Antipasto Salad & More

I love homemade meals with my fiancé, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't have a game plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredients I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week -- my weekl ... More >>

Carls' Jr. Testing New Ice Cream Burger

5 More Frosty Food Fakers

What's Cooking This Week? For One, Turkey Cheddar Burgers with Blue Cheese Slaw

I love homemade meals with my fiancé, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't have a game plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredients I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week?

I love cooking for my fiancé and for myself, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up aimlessly wandering the supermarket and wasting half the ingredients that I've bought (and I HATE food wasters...I'm lookin' at you!). Enter What's Cooking Thi ... More >>

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 5 Bloody Marys

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. Well, go ... More >>

Adventures In Crab Rangoonery

Photo by Geary EppleyYeah....mine didn't exactly look like this. ​Everybody has their favorite comfort foods. In times of stress, I turn to Chinese takeout for consolation, specifically crab rangoon. Actually, not only in times of stress. After several cocktails, crab rangoon always sounds aw ... More >>

Racing Rachael: High Steaks

Carrie Applegate Jaeger​I was starting to think that either Rachael has a lot of 30-minute chicken meals or that I'm addicted to cooking chicken. So, for the next few weeks...NO chicken. Two things intrigued me about the entrée recipe: the placement of the salad in relation to the meat and ... More >>

Top 5 Simple Foods to Pair with Scotch and Whiskey

smiling_da_vinci​ I recently started drinking whiskey for the same reason most other people do -- because someone they knew was drinking whiskey. For the past decade, I'd stayed away from the brown stuff, because all the Crown shots from college had left a mental (not to mention liver) scar. ... More >>

Frugalicious: Porcupine Balls

Ready to make some balls​Porcupine balls are a great entree -- inexpensive, delicious and easily modified to suit your caloric or dietary needs. This dish is quick to assemble, leaving you plenty of time while it bakes to do your thing. Clean-up is easy, and most ingredients are pantry/freez ... More >>

Authentically Inauthentic

Ramen and breaded pork cutlets, not sushi, are the stars at Umai Japanese.

Local Vendor Spotlight

Houston Dairymaids.​For every Houston restaurant still using Sysco biscuits, there's a local vendor who's gnashing his teeth, ready to jump in if given the chance. Yes, the "little guy" local trade has grown steadily and profitably over the past few years as more and more chefs and patrons wan ... More >>

Bringing New Orleans to Houston

​Last week, Greenway Barista visited various restaurants and bars in New Orleans. Lucky him. But while we can't all jet away to New Orleans, we can bring NOLA to us with one of our favorite cookbooks, Cooking up a Storm. During Hurricane Katrina, many classic New Orleans recipes were washed a ... More >>

Vietnamese Steak and Eggs... Holy Cow!

​ Tan Ba Le Baguette on the corner of Beechnut and Boone is an excellent lunch destination. This Vietnamese diner specializes in street vendor dishes at an affordable price. Ordering here is simple: Walk up to the counter and ask for steak and eggs. The steak-and-eggs combo was traditionally ... More >>

RDG Bar Annie's Shrimp Meat Balls

In the wake of Café Annie's closing, Robert Del Grande has taken up the chef's hat again. Just a bit further down Post Oak, the RDG Grill Room, Bar Annie and the BLVD Lounge are now all serving a variety of small plates and entrees at different price points. But even in a new place, Chef Del Grande ... More >>

The Do-It-Yourself Bloody Mary Bar at the Cadillac Sunday Brunch

Photo by Robb WalshWhen considering where to go for Sunday brunch, we too often allow meaningless considerations like the fluffiness of the pancakes or the quality of the smoked salmon to interfere with sound decision-making. Stop and think about it. What's really important on Sunday morning-- I mea ... More >>

Hamburguesa Estilo Monterrey

What exactly is a hamburguesa estilo Monterrey? I visited the Hamburguesas Del Rio location at Avenida Constitucion 1121 Pte. Centro in Monterrey, Mexico to seek the definitive answer to that question. I had long assumed that the term described a specific Mexican-style set of garnishes, namely the ... More >>

Pig for a prince at Zushi

Hotter than Hasselhoff?

Maybe not yet, but Koufax is on the way

Beyond the Bovine

Christian cowboys, carnivals and Chianti await you at the rodeo

Pike's Peak

Catch the tattooed lady's act at the Rhythm Room

Stirred and Shaken

Dancing Marlin's Bloody Mary

Hot Plate

The Shrimp Po-Boy at Cafe Artiste

Righteous Meats

Victor's from L.A., his corned beef's from Chicago, but his Reuben is heaven-sent

Bang-up Bento Boxes

Don Chang pushes the envelopeat Nara Japanese

Hot Plate

Hot Plate

Soft and Crabby

Summer's the right time for many things -- but none better than soft-shell supping

Something Old, Something New

If El Palacio is a dream of the past, Cabo is the cocktail party of the future

A History Lesson

The Confederate House feeds us on what Houston was -- for better and worse