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Bacon Sandwiches and Chicken Livers at Gilhooley's
Image: Katharine Shilcutt Oysters Gilhooley are good all year round."Why did you go to Gilhooley's?" asked Robb Walsh, my colleague at Houstonia and noted oyster expert, when I told him I'd recently...
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Happy Hour: Burgers and Beers at BRC
Monday nights, when many restaurants are dark, BRC Gastropub hosts a happy hour of epic proportions. Starting at 2 p.m., all of their draft pints or imperial pints are $3. And with 28 beers on tap,...
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New Pit at Old Millheim
The old Southern-style barbecue pit behind the dance hall in Millheim used to be one course of cinderblock above the ground with a pit dug several feet underneath. But the distance between the coals...
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Revival Market Now Selling Breakfast All Week Long
Long lines for its breakfast specials every single Saturday morning meant that something had to give, and now Revival Market is offering breakfast seven days a week. This doesn't mean that its special...
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Texas Redefines the Cronut
Image: Katharine Shilcutt The dosant at Peña's Donut Heaven & Grill comes in two flavors: regular cream cheese and strawberry.As with all modern trends, the timeline of the cronut craze has been...
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A Great Tomato Season
My gardening guru Jim Sherman got in touch yesterday. "It's been a great year for tomatoes," he observed, "just enough rain and a nice long cool season." Once it gets so hot that the overnight...
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The Rise And Fall Of The Houston Po' Boy
Is Jalal Antone's creation -- the indigenous Houston po' boy -- an endangered sandwich?Last year a milestone in Houston cuisine passed with little hullaballoo: the 50th anniversary of the Houston-style...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
A few years ago, Anthony Calleo—the lanky, bespectacled, tattoo-covered proprietor of the popular Pi Pizza Truck—was listening to Lady Sovereign and something clicked."She's this little, British...
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Juneteenth at Mama Sugar's
My first plate at Mama Sugar's Juneteenth BBQ was loaded with a smoked pork chop and a rib on a bed of beans, cabbage, and green beans. My second plate was a sausage link and a chicken thigh with...
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Jean-Philippe Gaston's New Tasting Menus Dazzle at Cove
Image: Katharine Shilcutt Jean-Philippe Gaston is one of the most creative chefs working in Houston today.Jean-Philippe Gaston isn't the talkative type. Standing in front of a packed house last night,...
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The Pursuit of Foamy Freedom
Last Friday evening, a mere two days before the veto deadline in Austin, Governor Perry signed five bills into law. This marks the beginning of positive change in the regulations governing the Texas...
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God Bless Américas's New Happy Hour Menu
Image: Katharine Shilcutt Flaming Pisco Sours not guaranteed, although there are plenty of other $6 cocktails on the social hour menu.You could be forgiven for thinking that Américas in River Oaks...
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River Oaks Donuts Dazzles
Never before have I walked in to a donut shop to find beautiful countertops made of marble, artwork by Lorri Honeycutt, or a display of delicious taste-testers in the form of donut holes for me to pop...
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French Toast and Wings the Hong Kong Way
Give our city long enough, and maybe our culinary scene will one day come to resemble the wonderfully messy melting pot that is Hong Kong cuisine.House of Bowls6650 Corporate713-776-2288 In this tiny...
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Gilhooley's: San Leon
A few miles down the road from the chain restaurants of Kemah Boardwalk, this Galveston Bay original offers an antidote to commercialism. Opened in 1987 by Phil Duke, Gilhooley’s (the restaurant uses...
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Baffin Bay Cafe: Riviera
In an idyllic cove overlooking Baffin Bay, right down the road from the Famous King’s Inn, there is a tiny fishing marina, bait shop and café complex. Locals and fishermen prefer the low-key Baffin Bay...
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A Chip Off the Old Block
The first thing I noticed about The Chopping Block is that the burger joint had taken over—thankfully—a poorly utilized space on Washington Avenue next door to Kung Fu Saloon. A recently constructed...
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Sartin's: Nederland
When the first Sartin's opened in Sabine Pass in 1972, it was little more than a couple of tables at a fish market. Spicy barbecued crabs and cold beer attracted a lot of sandy, sunburned diners clad...
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Pupusas for All at El Petate
Curtido and pupusas at El Petate.If you're unfamiliar with Salvadoran cuisine but want to get acquainted, El Petate in Houston's East End is a perfect place to get started. The broad front porch of the...
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Maine-ly Sandwiches Moves to Montrose
Image: Gary R. Wise Maine-ly Sandwiches serves what is arguably the best lobster roll in Houston.Good news for those hardy souls who have been patiently making the drive north to Greenspoint every time...
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