Food Without Borders

    Yikes! $2 for a slider — nearly $6 for 3. That hefty price comes with no cheese. I’m a fan of Food and Wines’ Best New Chef Bryan Caswell’s seafood restau­rant Reef. When he opened Lil’ Bigs  I wanted to love it too. The restau­rant is located in the for­mer home of Ming’s […]

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Spicy Pickle serves pani­nis, subs, pizzettis, soups, sal­ads and other stan­dard fare accom­pa­nied by the epony­mous spicy pickle. For those look­ing to save money under their “Pick­le­Nomics” sec­tion of the menu, they offer “Build Your Own” sub or panini, or the “Dou­ble Dilly-O.”

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I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to review Cata­lan — it’s one my favourite restau­rants in Hous­ton and I’ve been there numer­ous times. I think it is because each time I go there I feel like there is so much to the restau­rant for me to get to know. On my recent […]

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I can­not believe we missed our 9.00 am flight back to Hous­ton on Christ­mas Eve. Still in the hol­i­day mood, I fig­ured our loss was some­one else’s gain. The next 3 flights were over­sold so we got con­firmed on the 6.30 p.m. flight back to Hous­ton. The past week in Orlando was great — 3 days […]

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We’ve been wait­ing for the open­ing of the Hous­ton out­post of the Cal­i­for­nia restau­rant, Straits, for a while so we were exited to be going there. It’s located at the bot­tom of a hotel in front of a grassy court­yard, so good loca­tion and nice frontage.

The restau­rant has a nice con­cept. It is part lounge, […]

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Drat. The restau­rant we were look­ing for in the guide­book was no longer in busi­ness. After mak­ing a 3^rd turn around the cor­ner we had to think quickly before our 3 year old would have had enough. We decided to head down Broad­way, just south of the down­town where there is a diverse selec­tion of restaurants. […]

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Located in Yale­town in Van­cou­ver, BC, the cool mod­ern inte­rior is fronted by a large awning cov­ered patio where you can dine al fresco — which is usu­ally fine in Vancouver’s great weather. Opt for the out­door seat­ing if you are vis­it­ing from out of town. The restau­rant fea­tures yak­i­toris of var­i­ous types. They have kobe […]

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I had noticed the Beard Papa’s in San Fran­cisco on a recent trip, but with a hun­gry 3 year old at 7pm it’s no time to stop for cream puffs. So when when were  in Van­cou­ver a few weeks ago I thought the store sign looked famil­iar. Since our daugh­ter was sleep in the car and […]

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I’ve just eaten the best hot­dog ever – at Japadog in Van­cou­ver, B.C. I ordered a Ter­i­mayo (all beef hot­dog with teriyaki sauce, nori sea­weed, Japan­ese may­on­naise, and fried onions and a Okonomi (kurobuta pork sausage, fried cab­bage, bonito flakes and a spe­cial sauce, which is sim­i­lar to tonkatsu sauce but lighter and with less […]

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Famil­iar way of eat­ing a lunch — from a brown bag, just like in ele­men­tary school. This and fresh baked sand­wich breads are the allure of my favorite sand­wich shop in Hous­ton.  Order­ing is sim­ple. You pick up a clip­board which has a menu and pen­cil attached for your con­ve­nience. The menu is lit­er­ally a […]

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