Kathy Biehl

Everything I'd ever heard about Bryan's Messina Hof Wine Cellars made me hunger for a visit. The winery has racked up ribbons in national competitions and has even beaten California wines on their home turf. Co-owner Paul Bonnarigo is a seventh-generation wine maker from a family that's still in the...

What's an event planner to do when a fundraiser turns into an organizational nightmare? These days divine intervention is no longer the stuff of wishful thinking. All it takes is a computer, an Internet connection and $1500. Pricey, you say? Ah, but wait. This isn't any old ethereal intervention: It...

Floyd and Pseudo-Floyd The sign said Floyd's on Shepherd, but what I walked into was a parallel universe where everything was a bubble out of plumb. In this northwest-of-downtown neighborhood -- in all of Houston, likely -- the name Floyd has meant reliable Louisiana cooking and rowdy crowds since the...

Haute on the Grange Gone are the extra words in the name: What was once the Ohio Grange Cafe is now merely The Grange -- and likewise, the restaurant itself is sleeker and chic-er. Also gone is the menu's oddball ode to Midwestern farm values; instead, emblazoned at the bottom...

I've harbored a weird fondness for small-town German restaurants ever since one in Marble Falls turned out the best Wienerschnitzel I've had outside Austria or Germany. So when I came across a billboard for Hackemack's Hofbrauhaus in New Ulm (that's Uh-lum, in local parlance), I had to investigate. It's popular...