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  Openings and Closings: Guard and Grace This Fall, Three Brothers Bakery Turns 70

  May 10 at 5 a.m.

  Guard and Grace, 500 Dallas, is slated to open in fall 2019 at One Allen Center. Troy Guard, executive chef and owner of TAG Restaurant Group, opened the first Guard and Grace Steakhouse in Denver, Colorado in 2014. The modern steakhouse takes a fresh approach to the genre with seasonal...

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  Vegans Will Be Protesting This Friday At The Mayor's Holiday Celebration and Tree Lighting

  Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:21 a.m.

  "What if you were forced to lay an egg every single day?" Dani Alexander, an activist for the vegan lifestyle and PETA prophet, said passionately. Sitting around her, a flock of others like-minded nodded. They had a point— what would you do? Probably be bewildered, and then upset. Sunday at...

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  El Tiempo Cantina Should Have Known Better With That Jeff Sessions Photo

  Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 5 a.m.

  My father instilled a very specific work ethic in me: if you have a job, it doesn’t matter what’s going on in the world, you get up and go to work. That’s not to say you don’t pay attention to what’s going on in the world — you’re still a...

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  Who Cooked That: Houston's Service Industry Thrives Thanks to Latino Immigrants

  Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 5 a.m.

  In 2016, at the height of the Trump campaign media storm, the late Anthony Bourdain said of immigrant workers, "If Mr. Trump deports 11 million people or whatever he's talking about right now, every restaurant in America would shut down." A long time defender of Hispanic immigrants, Bourdain spoke often...

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  Why Besh Group's Massive Sexual Harassment Claims Matter to Houston

  Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 4 a.m.

  Over the weekend, while you were basking in tacos or the Astros' ALCS win, the New Orleans-based Times Picayune published an exposé by James Beard Award winning food writer Brett Anderson, who spent eight months talking to 25 former and current Besh Restaurant Group (BRG) employees, revealed a chef and company that  has...

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  Should We Just Go Back to Paying for Fast Food With Cash?

  Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 4 a.m.

  In September, it was Equifax. Now it's Sonic. The fast food company known for its hotdogs, shakes and slushies, has just admitted to a major security breach that has not only put the credit card information of as many as 5.1 million customers at risk, as reported by Restaurant Business,...