Restaurant News

Want To Know A Secret?

Three major clues that a restaurant is cutting edge: tasting menus that change according to a chef’s whim; being “secret”…

Noteworthy Opening: Aldo’s

The Houston area has a new Aldo’s. Sixteen years after chef Aldo el Sharif opened and seven years after he…

Today’s Table Talk

The culinary team responsible for some of Houston’s most interesting pop-up dinners over the past 18 months is settling down…

A Gluttonous Weekend

It was a weekend of decking the halls and basting the bird, but this past weekend was also the closing…

Feast Photos — Holiday Eating 2011

Want to send in your feast photos from Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Boxing Day or New Year's Eve? We'll be posting…

Dining Out For Thanksgiving Dinner

Just once, in 1981, we went out for Thanksgiving dinner. It was New York City, and we had an apartment…

Noteworthy Opening: Downton Phoenicia Specialty Foods

The highly-anticipated downtown location of Phoenicia Specialty Foods is finally open on the first two floors of Park One Place,…

Six Favorite Happy Hour Spots

Many people suffer from the impression that happy hour food is little more than a permutation of something fried. Think…

Noteworthy Opening: Pinewood Cafe

Pinewood Cafe is the latest incarnation of the new contemporary restaurant space perched alongside McGovern Lake in Hermann Park next…

Katja Loher’s Table

Food has been a subject for artists at least since the late Paleolithic when artists depicted a range of tasty…