Great Stuff at Abe's Cajun Market A singer with an acoustic guitar warbled popular songs in the big dining room of Abe's Cajun Market in Clear Lake on a recent Friday around...
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Published: May 01, 2008
Short Order Thai at Thai Lily Café The tom kha gai soup at Thai Lily Café on Dairy Ashford is made with chicken in coconut milk broth with lemongrass, fresh chiles, lime...
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Published: April 24, 2008
Jackie Tan Thinks Big The sensational seafood salad at Jackie Tan Restaurant on Bellaire featured cold shrimp and crunchy jellyfish slivers tossed with shredded pork,...
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Published: April 10, 2008
Crawfish Cravings at Swampy's Cajun Shack It was Saturday night, and five of us were sitting at a picnic table outside on the deck at Swampy's Cajun Shack on Grand Parkway just south of...
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Published: April 03, 2008
Great Gado Gado at Noodle House 88 Covered in sweet soy and peanut sauce and dotted with chopped peanuts and garlic bits, the luscious Indonesian version of chicken satay is...
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Published: March 20, 2008
Breakfast Enchiladas at Mi Sombrero Gooey cheese enchiladas topped with two fried eggs — that's my favorite Tex-Mex breakfast. I usually have to beg the waiter to go ask the...
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Published: March 13, 2008
It's Hip to Be Square at Masraff's As the trio struck up a Brazilian samba tune and warm sunshine streamed in through the high windows, we settled back into our chairs to take in...
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Published: March 06, 2008
Little Bitty Burger Barn Little Bitty's Sliders" were four mini hamburgers topped with caramelized onions served on tiny toasted rolls. The cute little burgers seemed...
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Published: February 21, 2008
Ghost Town CFS: Carriage House Cafe If you believed all the talk, you'd think that the large chicken-fried steak at Carriage House Cafe on Fallbrook would feed a large family of...
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Published: February 14, 2008
Fish Frenzy at Tokyo One The salmon sashimi at Tokyo One had such wide diagonal stripes of white fat running through it that each slice looked like an orange-and-white...
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Published: February 07, 2008
Keep Houston Weird: Dry Creek Café The medium-rare slices of fish on the grilled ahi tuna salad at Dry Creek Café were a juicy watermelon pink in the middle, with a lovely...
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Published: January 24, 2008
Simposio Vitello tonnato — thin slices of chilled veal covered with creamy tuna, anchovy and mayonnaise sauce — may sound bizarre, but it...
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Published: January 17, 2008
Que Huong The tempura softshell crab (#272) at Que Huong on Wilcrest is one of the wildest Vietnamese seafood dishes I've come across in years. The naked...
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Published: January 10, 2008
Turquoise Grill Brick Oven Bistro It was a Saturday morning just after eleven when we walked into the Turquoise Grill Brick Oven Bistro on Norfolk at Kirby. I glanced at the menu...
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Published: January 03, 2008
Thai Café There was a red-scented candle on our table at Thai Café on Westheimer. I believe it was that festive cranberry scent that's so popular...
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Published: December 27, 2007
Tornado Burger There are two kinds of burger patties at Tornado Burger on Murphy Road in Stafford — the regular, seasoned with salt, pepper and...
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Published: December 20, 2007
Danton's Gulf Coast Seafood Kitchen New Orleans food writer Pableaux Johnson and I ordered our first dozen oysters of the season at Danton's, the new Gulf seafood joint on Montrose....
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Published: December 13, 2007
Balkan Grill & Market Balkanska plata mala, the "Balkan mixed plate" for two at the Balkan Grill, was a heaping platter of grilled chicken, burger patties, kebabs,...
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Published: December 06, 2007
Madagascar Birthmarks at French Riviera Bakery 
Malaysian and Chinese at Hong Kong Dim Sum 
Nuevo Inca-Mex at Inka South American Cuisine 
Places Like Los Dos Amigos Are Disappearing On Washington 
La Nouvelle Recession Cuisine at Au Petit Paris 
Paneer and Pizza at Gourmet India and Kings Chicken 
Cajun Gets a Crewcut at Denis' Seafood House 
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