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Hot Plate

By Alison Cook, February 09, 1995

Shiva: Worth Celebrating Five years is a ripe old age for a restaurant, many of which don't survive to see their first birthday. So the... More >>

Hot Plate

By Alison Cook, January 26, 1995

New Menu Blues There are new menus and New Menus. At Americas, where Nicaraguan-born Michael Cordua has experimented so deftly and originally... More >>

Eating on the Cutting Edge

Daily Review has the foodies alerted, and for good reason

By Alison Cook, January 12, 1995

Word of mouth comes to a fast boil on the foodie circuit: if this is January 1995, any Inner Loopster worth his Kosher salt can be found at the... More >>

Promises, Promises

The Rock Bottom's menu writes a check its kitchen can't cash

By Alison Cook, December 29, 1994

Some menus read better than they taste. With its green chili, buffalo fajitas and brown-ale chicken, The Rock Bottom Brewery's is one such... More >>

Shanghai Surprise

The flavors of China's Lower Yangtze flow into Houston

By Alison Cook, December 15, 1994

Rejoice, all ye Chinese-food buffs: an early holiday present awaits you at Diho Square -- Houston's new center of gravity for serious Chinese... More >>

Soup Weather

By Alison Cook, December 08, 1994

At this time of year, solace and fortitude are more liable to be found steaming in a soup bowl than sitting naked on a plate. There is no set of... More >>

Vegetable Magic

Abdallah's can make you wonder, who needs meat?

By Alison Cook, November 24, 1994

I hate to say I told you so, but the new-and-improved Abdallah's is further evidence of my theory that Middle Eastern spots turn out the most... More >>

A Fork in La Strada

By Alison Cook, October 27, 1994

It had been years since I'd eaten at La Strada. For quite some time, venturing east of Ruggles on lower Westheimer has seemed a bit too much like... More >>

Burger Heaven, Burger Hell

A quest for all that's good and greasy in an American icon

By Alison Cook, October 13, 1994

When is a burger not a burger? This is a riddle to which there is no longer an easy answer. Not since cholesterol consciousness and animal-fat... More >>

Touring Little Persia

Houston's best undiscovered cuisine unfolds along the Hillcroft strip

By Alison Cook, September 15, 1994

Connect the dots along a certain 12-block stretch of Hillcroft and you'll come up with Little Persia: Houston's latest ethnic commercial hub, a... More >>

Hot Plate

By Alison Cook, July 28, 1994

Tempting Tapas It is 6:30 p.m. The freeway is an inferno. You're hungry and out of sorts. Driving home to cook doesn't sound too good right... More >>

Hot Plate

By Alison Cook, July 21, 1994

Number One Males Barbecued crabs, those splendid Texas Gulf Coast perversities, usually entail a trip to the raffish Bolivar Peninsula, where... More >>

The Raw and the Cooked

By Alison Cook, July 07, 1994

The trouble with rushing off to brand-new restaurants is that occasionally you blunder into one that is not quite ready for prime time. My recent... More >>

Woe is Me

By Alison Cook, June 30, 1994

Nothing's what it used to be, or so the fogies tell us. I feel myself turning into one lately. The news that Roznovsky's had shuttered its... More >>

Court Food

By Alison Cook, June 23, 1994

When I have business downtown and desire to feel truly urban, I repair to one of the naugahyde-and-chrome stools outside La Palapa, the... More >>

Hot Plate

By Alison Cook, May 26, 1994

Galveston Ho It's that time of year when those of us who are not blessed with summer addresses in Aspen or Santa Fe start packing the car for... More >>

Haute Spot

Chef Louis Cressy enlivens the Lancaster with his neo-Gulf Coast cuisine

By Alison Cook, May 12, 1994

It's a pleasant -- and all too rare -- surprise when a restaurant you'd written off acquires a new lease on life. Yet that is exactly what has... More >>

Paris, Texas

Montparnasse, er, Montrose Boulevard gets a civilized new hangout

By Alison Cook, May 05, 1994

She was staring at my omelet. And for good reason: it wore the sunny, glistening face of eggs that have been coaxed rather than manhandled;... More >>

Hot plate

By Alison Cook, April 28, 1994

Blond on Blond Nielsen's is the Marilyn Monroe of Houston delicatessens -- pale, creamy and voluptuous, talisman of a quaint era in which... More >>

Hot Plate

By Alison Cook, April 21, 1994

Quintessence of Kebab For years I thought that of Houston's ethnic eateries, Indian places were the most consistent. Nowadays the honors go to... More >>

Cult restaurateur

Mickey Kapoor brings "Nouvelle Indian" inside the Loop

By Alison Cook, April 14, 1994

"Mickey's back!" The late-winter rumors sent Indian-food buffs on hopeful cruises past Kirby and Richmond, where the sign on an empty... More >>

Hot Plate

By Alison Cook, March 31, 1994

My Trip to West U I prefer West U in small doses. I get to say that because I used to live there, in a charming frame bungalow that got torn... More >>

Chopsticks at the Ready

The modest Chinese Cafe knows how to produce a feast worth losing your poise over

By Alison Cook, March 31, 1994

Four or five bites into our dinner at the Chinese Cafe, the pace accelerated exponentially: chopsticks flew, serving spoons clanked furiously,... More >>

Hot Plate

By Alison Cook, March 24, 1994

Life After Mrs. Brenner It is instructive to note which restaurants Houston expatriates rush to when they come home again. It's not the fancy... More >>

Houston Haggis

By Alison Cook, February 03, 1994

The perverse imp in me has always wanted to eat haggis, and on January 25 -- Scottish bard Robbie Burns' birthday -- I finally got to. The... More >>

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Burgers and Nostalgia at Lankford Grocery

By Katharine Shilcutt

To see more photos from Lankford Grocery, check out our slideshow. For a 73-year-old restaurant, Lankford Grocery is a breath of fresh air. Straddling the quickly gentrifying neighborhoods of Montrose and… More >>

Liberty Kitchen Sink

By Katharine Shilcutt

Have at look inside the charming Liberty Kitchen via our slideshow. There is a bowl of gumbo at Liberty Kitchen with your name on it. And it's utterly unlike any other… More >>

Sushi Stop at The Blue Fish

By Mai Pham

Get your roll on at The Blue Fish in our behind-the-scenes slideshow of the Washington Avenue hand roll hang-out. While I was sitting at the sushi bar at Dallas import The… More >>

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