Gwendolyn Knapp

We're only a few days into November, sure, but it's never too early to start planning your annual Thanksgiving feast. In fact, if you're hoping to leave the cooking to the professionals this year, it's best to plan ahead, as in, right now.  Here are the best Houston restaurants offering...

International Smoke, a new restaurant from celebrity cookbook author, Food Network star and new face of CoverGirl, Ayesha Curry, in partnership with San Francisco-based chef Michael Mina of the massive MINA Group hospitality empire, will open at City Centre in 2018.   The eatery will offer dishes with an emphasis on all...

There was a lot riding on the Astros win, when it comes to getting free hot dogs in Houston anyway.  Here are the guaranteed free bites you can get this week all thanks to the Astros' historic World Series win.   We'll continue to update this list with more freebies and...

There it sat in the case. A green pastry no bigger than a doughnut, sliced through the middle and piped full of green cream, a dusting of confectioner's sugar on top. "It's very good, madame," the gracious woman behind the counter,  pastry chef Nga Rogers, told me.  I would discover...

Riel, the acclaimed Montrose eatery known for chef Ryan LaChaine's Houston cuisine with a Ukrainian and French Canadian twist, caught on fire this morning .  The Houston Press's own food reviewer and contributor Nicholas Hall was driving his kids to school, when they passed the restaurant and saw it from...