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  Upper Crust: Costco and its Pizza Pies

  January 15 at 6 a.m.

  My wife and I live alone with a medium-size dog who needs little more than dry food, water, and your endless supply of undivided love and attention. This is to say, we do not need our $60/year Costco membership. We don't need it because two people and a dog don't...

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  First Look: The Toasted Yolk Heights

  January 14 at 6 a.m.

  When people wonder why we Houstonians put up with the heat and humidity of our blazing summers, I like to point out that sometimes, in the middle of January and February, we get 70 degree temperatures under perfectly blue, cloudless skies. My Connecticut friends are not sitting outside on a...

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  Whining and Dining: Friday Night at Huynh with Quinn

  Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Life has changed for this food writer. As a brand-new mom, poppin’ bottles has taken on a slightly different meaning. But while I find myself seeking out diaper changing tables for the first time ever, I’m still on the hunt for all the awesome happy hours, exciting menus and H-town...

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  Upper Crust: Sixty Vines

  Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  It's not exactly a pizzeria. But it's not exactly not one, either. You catch our drift? Sixty Vines, the Dallas-based wine-on-tap concept, just opened the brand's first Houston store in Rice Village. A fitting home for the out-of-town upscale bar, as Rice Village has slowly been invaded by out-of-town chains...

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  Navigating the Mexican Restaurants on Navigation: El Tiempo

  Monday, December 9, 2019 at 5 a.m.

  This is the sixth in a series of visits to the six-cluster of Mexican restaurants on Navigation, a group of eateries that exemplifies Houston’s indigenous culinary history. “Chile Toreado” is a hot, sizzling way to finish this six-part visit to the cluster of Mexican restaurants on Navigation, a six-cluster that...

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  In-N-Out: Hit or Hype?

  Friday, December 6, 2019 at 5 a.m.

  After years of rumors and rumbles, In-N-Out fans in Houston got their wish with not one, but two In-N-Out Burger restaurants in the Houston area. The locations in Katy and Stafford opened November 22, as we reported here in the Houston Press . As with most things in the Houston...