Once you’ve seen one onion ring, you’ve seen them all, right? Wrong. The Brick House Tavern & Tap (12910 Northwest Fwy., 713-462-0576) serves onion rings like you’ve never seen before. The onions are dipped in buttermilk and batter and then quickly fried so they’re extremely crispy and not dripping in fat. They’re also longer and thinner than ordinary onion rings; in fact, “onion strings” might be a more appropriate name โ we found one that was over a foot long. The rings come piled high on an aluminum plate, for the incredible price of just $3.99.
This article appears in Apr 2-8, 2009.