My tendency to plot data spatially does lead to some interesting revelations, however. For example, were it not for the fact that I obsessively plot every one of my weekly cafe reviews on an ongoing Google map, I may have overlooked the fact that -- well -- I've mostly overlooked the entire east side of Houston in the last year.

See?

A closer look at Houston's inner core reveals that there's a pretty stark dividing line represented here by I-45: I only reviewed a handful of restaurants to the east of that corridor this past year. Granted, they were some of my favorites -- Radical Eats, Conscious Cafe, Moon Tower Inn, Bohemeo's, and Green Seed Vegan, for example -- so it stands to reason that there are more wonderful places on the East End of town that I just haven't discovered yet.

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So I'm making a pledge to investigate the eastern stretches of Houston more thoroughly this year, as well as pledging to visit some of its more far-flung suburbs. After all, places like Thanh Phuong in Pearland and Capri in Spring were some of my greatest discoveries of all in 2011.

But this is where I need your help, readers. Give me your suggestions and directions in the comments section below, and I'll fill up my gas tank and go. As of 2012, I am eastbound and down.

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