Fast Food at the French House The hot ham and Swiss cheese sandwich with sweet hot mustard on a crusty baguette with a cup of cold cucumber soup on the side may be the best...
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Published: June 05, 2008
Best Burger in Texas? The double-meat, double-cheese at 105 Grocery & Deli in the rural hamlet of Washington was too much burger for me. I got exactly halfway through...
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Published: May 29, 2008
Tropical Heat at Caribbean Jerk Cuisine It's a sweltering day, but I have a plan. What better cure for the hot, sticky-weather blues than some jerk chicken and Red Stripes? I swoop up...
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Published: May 22, 2008
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
Extra Crispy at Russo's New York Coal-Fired Pizzeria 
Wild Wild Waller Burgers: The Hill Bar & Grill 
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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