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Upper Crust: Two Guys Pizzeria

By Carlos Brandon
Oct 8, 2019

We love Houston, really we do. But what we wouldn't give to make this a more walkable city. To replace some of its more culturally comatose stretches of strip malls and parking lots with the urban accessibility of a New York or Chicago. For it is in those cities where...
10 Stupid Diet Fads

By Steve Jansen
Dec 13, 2016

Our list about some of the most idiotic diet trends arrives just in time for the first inklings of New Year’s resolutions. Eating “right” and “healthier” – complemented with a gym or yoga studio membership – is near the top of the list for many. Dieting is often involved. If...
Texas Best Burger Restaurant Offers “Round of Beers for the Kitchen” in Exchange for God-Awful Service?

By Steve Jansen
Nov 17, 2016

Imagine the thrill when the Bearded Lady in Fort Worth was not only included in Texas Monthly’s list of the 50 Best Burgers in Texas, but its so-called signature burger was also the cover model. In the August 2016 issue, the gastropub’s L.U.S.T. burger had been anointed as the third...
Someone Is Creating Dozens of Fake Houston Restaurant Pages on Facebook — But Why?

By Phaedra Cook
Aug 9, 2016

Thanks to tips from multiple readers, the Houston Press has learned that at least sixty Facebook pages have been created for Houston restaurants that do not exist. Addresses of real restaurants are used for the fake listings, causing hopeful diners to drive to what they believe is a hot new...
Woman Claims to Find Metal Blade in a Torchy's Taco and Says the Company Isn't Particularly Sorry About It [UPDATED]

By Phaedra Cook
May 6, 2016

Sometimes, foreign objects end up in restaurant food. It’s not all that uncommon but can be a liability issue. Generally, when diners discover inedible things in their food, restaurant managers are profusely apologetic and try to make amends. It is rare when the object is as serious as a sharp...
Speeding Driver Smashes Into Growler Store and Jenni’s Noodle House W/VIDEO

By Phaedra Cook
Feb 1, 2016

A speeding driver crashed his SUV through the glass storefront of Jugs Draft, a beer and growler seller at 3109 South Shepherd. Because of the vehicle’s angle and speed, it also plowed into the Jenni’s Noodle House next door. Jenni’s Noodle House co-owner Scott Tranweaver related his understanding of the...
5 Fun Ways to Celebrate Halloween Early in Houston [UPDATED]

By Phaedra Cook
Oct 23, 2015

Halloween falls on a Saturday night and if that’s not enough, the celebration gods have also given us an extra hour to party. Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. on November 1, so bars that normally stay open until then will be in business an extra hour. However, that...
Burger King Debuts Halloween Whopper

By Joanna O'Leary
Oct 8, 2015

Finally, we have caught up the good people of the Land of the Rising Sun. Since 2014 Japanese Burger King locations have offered customers not one but TWO black burgers featuring black buns and cheese colored with bamboo charcoal, leaving American fans to wonder what we did wrong to be...
New Edible Delights Coming for the 2015 Texas Renaissance Festival

By Phaedra Cook
Apr 8, 2015

Last week, the organizers of the Texas Renaissance Festival invited media outlets to attend a food show debuting new dishes for the 2015 season. Attendees are in for a tasty time when the festival gets started again in October. When it comes to festivals, foods on a stick are practical...
We Have Found the Strangest, Most Magical Chinese Buffet in Houston

By Kaitlin Steinberg
Aug 8, 2014

When I crave Chinese food, I go to Chinatown. When I crave Americanized Chinese food served out of a chafing dish, I talk to Joshua Martinez of The Modular food truck. He shares an affinity for what he calls "dirty Chinese" with the owner of the Rice Box food truck,...
Five Things the Houston Bar/Restaurant Scene Is Missing

By Kaitlin Steinberg
Aug 5, 2014

Let's get one thing straight: Houston has a pretty rockin' restaurant scene. This is largely thanks to the sheer number of restaurants we have in town (by some estimates, one of the highest numbers per capita in the country) and the huge variety of ethnic food available. Still, there are...
Using Google Trend Reports to Predict Future Food Trends

By Kaitlin Steinberg
Jun 27, 2014

We recently came across an article on the Huffington Post food section (you know, an ideal source for incredibly accurate news), and found an article entitled "According To Google, Nothing Is Ever Going To Trump The Cupcake." That can't be right, we thought, weary of the cupcake. It's been a...
Houston's Best Flaming Dishes and Drinks (in Honor of Pride Week)

By Kaitlin Steinberg
Jun 24, 2014

Everybody loves a good show at dinner, and in honor of Pride Week here in Houston, we're looking at some of the most flamboyant flammable dishes in town. To flambé a dish is to do more than merely set food in a pan on fire. In order for something to...
The Worst Restaurant Names in Houston

By Kaitlin Steinberg
Jun 16, 2014

With Pho King, Pho Kim and Crapitto's closed, what restaurants are there left in Houston to ridicule? Plenty, it turns out. The conversation at a recent media dinner turned to bad restaurant names when we started discussing the current contender for worst moniker: TABLE. Only a few of us had...
Dear Artisan Toast Craze: Please Don't Come to Houston

By Kaitlin Steinberg
Jun 11, 2014

Houston tends to be a little late to the game, food-trend-wise. The whole food truck-trend didn't really take off here until 2011, long after the gourmet meal on wheels had become popular in places like Los Angeles and New York. We're still going gaga over cupcakes, a trend that felt...
The Ultimate Hot Sauce Taste Test

By Kaitlin Steinberg
Jun 6, 2014

There's evidence that people in the Amazon basin were eating chili peppers as much as 6,100 years ago. Shortly thereafter, from what we can tell, native South Americans began domesticating the plant with the fiery hot fruit. They weren't content to simply forage for it. They needed it at all...
Ten Best Signs You're a Houston Foodie

By Kaitlin Steinberg
May 8, 2014

Sure, you live in Houston. Maybe you even grew up in Houston. But are you a true Houston foodie? Do you plan your days off around which type of ethnic food you most want to eat, and stick to a single neighborhood for hours so as to properly indulge and...
10 Best Kitchen Tools We Need to Invent Right Now

By Kaitlin Steinberg
May 5, 2014

In news of the dumb, a Chicago inventor recently achieved Kickstarter success and Internet fame with a device that he purports will scramble an egg without breaking or penetrating the shell. It's called the Golden Goose--you know, because the result is a golden egg--and in just a few days, the...
3-D Printed Food Is a Thing...But Do You Want to Eat It?

By Kaitlin Steinberg
Apr 30, 2014

It's called Foodini. Rhymes with Houdini. As if it might, at some point, perform some feat of escape artistry. It's just a box, though, sort of like a microwave with a computer screen on the front. Capsules containing blended food are loaded into the machine, and it's programmed to squirt...
10 Best Food Emojis We Desperately Need

By Kaitlin Steinberg
Apr 24, 2014

While working on the article about searching Yelp using emojis this week, I realized that the emoji canon has some rather glaring omissions. Sure, I could search for a burger place or Italian food or sushi, but what if I want a sandwich? A cupcake? Some charcuterie? Emojis were first...

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