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Bagel Bakery Shop has been serving fresh bagels on Hillcroft in Meyerland for nearly 40 years along with its sister restaurant, New York Deli and Coffee Shop. Now, the team behind this Houston institution’s finally opened a second Bagel Bakery Sh…
Read MoreTrue confession: While I was so looking forward to our dinner at the much ballyhooed Pier 6 Seafood & Oyster House in San Leon, I had my doubts about overnighting in the restaurant’s related Airbnbs. I mean, seriously, how acceptable could a …
Read MoreI love to talk about wine with people who share my passion for it. We open bottles, we trade stories about travel and soil types, terroir and residual sugar, and we talk of taste and food and restaurants. We recommend wines to one another, we drink, an…
Read MoreOnly days before demolition began at Stone Mill Bakers on Kirby Drive to make way for Armando Palacios’ Lulu’s River Oaks, we sat down with the restaurant impresario and his wife, Cinda (aka Lulu) in their home base of Round Top to talk abo…
Read MoreNo other drop of the ball or strike of the clock on midnight has been as anticipated as this New Year’s Eve 2020. Making it to the end of the longest year in recent memory is cause enough for celebration. And saying goodbye to 2020, and giving a …
Read MoreI love to talk about wine with people who share my passion for it. We open bottles, we trade stories about travel and soil types, terroir and residual sugar, and we talk of taste and food and restaurants. We recommend wines to one another, we drink, an…
Read MoreI am not the first person to advise that one should have at least one bottle of Champagne or sparkling wine in one’s refrigerator at all times. Even in periods — or perhaps especially in periods — of prolonged exposure to one’s home environment devoid …
Read MoreTucked away in what first appears to be a comic book store in The Galleria area, you’ll find Houston’s first omakase-driven sushi restaurant. In a city with such a varied food scene, omakase-style dining still does not have much of a presen…
Read MoreThe family behind Houston Tex-Mex chain Cyclone Anaya’s is back in business with a new restaurant. Ricardo Valencia and his sister, Vienna Valencia Bement, recently opened Valencia’s Tex-Mex Garage. Located at 2009 West 34th Street in Oak Forest, the …
Read MoreChristmas is right around the corner, starting to close what was somehow simultaneously both the longest and quickest year in memory — and that in itself is worth celebrating. But who wants to cook on Christmas in 2020? This year has been hard enough. …
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