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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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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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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La Bro­cante is a small french restau­rant located on Hous­ton ’s west side in the Royal Oaks area. The inside has an early 20^th cen­tury Frech look which is sur­pris­ing since it is located in a small strip mall – which is very com­mon in Hous­ton . The restau­rant is run by well known local […]

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Stand­outs on the menu include their Soft-Shell Crab Kara Agge — we had 4 whole crabs for $7.00.; rice dishes, and var­i­ous chi­rashi. Zushi also allows you to cus­tomize your sushi order; from hav­ing it fried, torched, or rice-less if wanted.

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Over the past few years the num­ber of cup­cake shops has grown greatly as Amer­i­cans seek smaller, higher qual­ity snacks and desserts. I’ve been debat­ing with myself and oth­ers about whether this was a fad or some­thing here to stay. I fall on the side of here to stay, but going the way of the […]

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One of my favourite home style cook­ing Thai restaurants.

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Located in a small hum­ble strip cen­ter near Houston’s Westchase Dis­trict, Sasaki Japan­ese Restau­rant is one of the few real Japan­ese restau­rants in Hous­ton. You will find many from Houston’s Japan­ese com­mu­nity eat­ing lunch or din­ner here. 8979 Wes­t­heimer Hous­ton, TX 77063 713–266‑5768 Sasaki Japan­ese Restau­rant What you can expect here is sim­i­lar to what you […]

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