Entries tagged with 'Houston'
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How many drinks have you tried on Anvil’s list? [Photographs: Paul Clarke and Robyn Lee] The 100 Classic Cocktails To Try Before You Die list began making the rounds last week but it's different from your average internet meme. While it's popping up all over on blogs and Twitter, the list originated as a menu recently introduced at Anvil, a craft-cocktail bar in Houston. Created by co-owner Robert Heugel and his Anvil partners, the selection of drinks (simply known as “the list") doesn’t lay pretense to being the best 100 drinks in creation or even a balanced representation of the best drinks in mixological history. Rather, the owners owe up to the list's subjectivity and arbitrary nature. “We at Anvil...
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Houston Press: "What's a hungry foodie to do when they find themselves at a loss for a dinner or lunch companion? That's where @TwEATup comes in. The brainchild of local web entrepreneur and social networker Laban Johnson, TwEATup is a service that links Twitterers in the Houston area with others who want to grab a bite to eat."...
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My friend Robb Walsh knows taco trucks. He chronicled the taco trucks of Houston for his paper, the Houston Press. He also wrote a story for Gourmet on taco trucks across the country, but alas, it is not online. For some reason, though, the powers that be at Condé Nast did put up a little sidebar Walsh did on chefs and their thoughts on taco trucks. He talks to John Currence, Elizabeth Montes, and Gabriel Rucker....
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Houston Press food critic Robb Walsh discovers a pupusa truck at South Post Oak Road and Tidewater Drive (map): "A Salvadorean lady named Elisa churns out pupusas at an amazing clip. I watched her make a dozen in five minutes." The cool graphics on the truck (including what what Walsh calls a "funky chicken") are almost worth the price of ignition alone....
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Good magazine rounds up a list of the seven most delicious stretches of pavement in the United States. And they're all cheap eats. Making the cut are: Roosevelt Avenue, Queens, New YorkTravis Street, HoustonFremont Avenue North, SeattleBroadway, ChicagoSouthwest 8th Street, MiamiNolensville Road, NashvilleWest Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles Did your favorite eats street get snubbed?...
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Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I end up surfing the web in search of great food writing that will allow me to vicariously enjoy the food being written about in a way that is both soothing and satisfying. Around 3 this morning, I found myself seeking out the best of barbecue musings of the Houston Press's Robb Walsh, who writes about 'cue with more heart and soul than just about anybody I know. Writing about Burns Bar B Q he says, "His brisket falls apart on the way to your mouth." Makes me want some right now. On Thelma's Bar-B-Que, Walsh opines, "You judge a barbecue joint by its smoked meat. And the best comes from a real pit....
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Peggy Grodinsky of the Houston Chronicle and other area foodies bid farewell to their Lettuce Lady, a.k.a. sustainable gardening pioneer Camille Waters, who is moving to Mexico to start a new life: "She opened the door for a lot of people who are doing farmers markets today, (for) bringing great product to your back door,'" chef Mark Cox said. "She got the ball going on (eating) local. She was one of the first to say, "I can grow the product here in Houston."While Houston is no San Francisco - a city where headlining exquisite regional produce on fine-restaurant menus is de rigueur - a small network of "boutique farmers'' supply Houston's best chefs with locally grown produce and sell...
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Alison Cook of the Houston Chronicle visits new area hot spot Dolce Vita Pizzeria Enoteca and gives it serious props: Houston now lays claim to some of the best handmade pizzas served in America. I do not exaggerate. I would put these babies up against the well-regarded likes of Chris Bianco's pies at Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix, say, or even the painstakingly purist specimens at Una Pizza Napoletana in New York's East Village. Quite frankly, thanks to their spectacular wood-fired crusts, they best even the griddled specimens served at überchef Mario Batali's Otto Enoteca Pizzeria, the downtown Manhattan pizza bar that was Wiles' inspiration. We'll have to get some of Serious Eats staff out there to try it STAT—head honcho...
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The Houston Press' Robb Walsh recently visited local taquería Mexico's Deli, where all the sandwiches have jailhouse-themed names like the "fugitiva," the "convicta" and the "tortura": In the 1970s, [owner] Alex [Garcia] explained, he opened his first taquería in Mexico City. Spoofing the hit musical La Cage aux Folles (The Bird Cage), he called the restaurant La Jaula de Tacos (the taco cage). In keeping with the "cage" theme, the tortas were named after prisons. The incarceration tortas were a big hit, and Alex went on to open four more restaurants in Mexico City. But his mini-chain collapsed with the devaluation of the peso during the Carlos Salinas de Gortari regime. So Alex came to Houston to start over.On my...
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Robb Walsh of the Houston Press visited the new wine bar and restaurant Max's Wine Dive, which serves a $14 hotdog called the "Texas Haute Dog": "a grass-fed beef frankfurter on a Kraftsmen bun, topped with "house-made" pickled jalapeños, venison chili, cotija cheese and crispy fried onions that look remarkably like the Durkees canned onions of green bean casserole fame. The dog is served on top of a pile of hand-cut frites (that's French for French fries) that have been garnished with more venison chili." I want to say "Texas eats, New York City prices" but I don't think we have any hot dogs that expensive here! (Burgers, now that's a different story altogether.)...
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