Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City!
Anyone who occasionally checks out my Instagram account knows that I love entertaining at home, love to cook and love to set a pretty table. My dinners often include both my own culinary efforts as well as takeout and prepared food. So I hope that you …
Read MoreHouston is one of the best food cities in America, but pizza has never been its strong point. Now, one of the very best pizza shops in the Bayou City is going to be closed for the foreseeable future because of a devastating next-door fire. When Q Nails…
Read MoreThe Pio Cesare winery was founded in 1881, by the man himself, Pio Cesare, in Alba. If you appreciate Barolos and Barbarescos, you certainly know the name. The fifth generation of the family is now involved in the business, and I am comfortable stating…
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 MoreWalking through the new Houston Farmers Market as it’s being built, you’re struck by one simple truth. Houston’s never had anything like this before. One of America’s top chefs (a Jimmy Kimmel favorite) and a real ranching cowbo…
Read MoreWhile just about every restaurant in Houston is preparing Thanksgiving dinner for takeout or dine-in, there are those among us who are not going to miss the ritual of getting up to our elbows in cornbread dressing and making that delish cranberry-orang…
Read MoreLast November, only months before COVID-19 would shut down Houston restaurants, Karine Favre-Massartic had taken over the kitchen of her Café Poêtes and transformed the Parisian-style coffee shop/tea room into a full-blown restaurant. But before word c…
Read MoreDo you have your tickets for PaperCity‘s CellarSelect yet? This special Napa Valley wine tasting event is no ordinary virtual affair. Mark your calendar for November 12, because it’s a red-letter day for oenophiles. Four top Napa Valley wine producers,…
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 MoreSitting at one of the bar tables in The Sporting Club, the latest hotspot on bustling Washington Avenue, I am reminded of Le Grill atop the Hôtel de Paris in Monte-Carlo. But it’s neither the swell aromas emanating from the kitchen nor the sparkl…
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