June 13, 20187 yr I lived there for over 15 years, but I'm heading back for only the 2nd time in the last 10+ years. It is a short time there but I plan on eating at some of my past live favorites - Goode Co Taqueria (breakfast or lunch grilled chicken sammy with chocolate cinnamon shake) - Rajun Cajun - a little bit of everything, last time I was there Frank was still out talking to the customers - Trying to lunch at Buck's BBQ Now give me some new places that I should give a go (staying near Sugar Land, but spending time inside the loop, Bellaire, West U, Med Center, etc)
June 14, 20187 yr I'd skip Goode Co, for breakfast, and go straight to Chiloso's instead. Not even close, have Goode for lunch if you must. If i moved away staples i'd visit again include Hugo's, Liberty Kitchen, Lankford Grocery, Niko Niko's, Fadi's or Laredo Taqueria.
June 14, 20187 yr I'm a big fan of Goode Co. Taqueria, but if you haven't been also the Armadillo Palace across the street. Hugo's other restaurants - Xochi and Caracol - are outstanding. Two of the best in the city right now. If you're in Sugar Land, you're not far from Chinatown (or Asiatown). Lots of great places - Mein (Cantonese), House of Bowls (Hong Kong), Ohn (modern Korean with a good soju bar), Pho Binh (Vietnamese - various locations, one in Chinatown, one on 59 and Gessner).
June 28, 20187 yr Near the Loop: Bubba's Burger Shack Sugar Land/Stafford: Lopez texmex Tornado Burger Kim Son Chinatown (Bellaire Blvd): Vien Hoa Kim Son HK Dim Sum Sinh Sinh Tiger Den FuFu Cafe Gelato Cup (try the durian) Don's Cafe and Sandwich Com Tam Kieu Gian (in the Hong Kong City Mall) Memory Cafe (for Tea/Coffee)
August 4, 20187 yr On 6/14/2018 at 12:05 AM, RollLeft said: I'd skip Goode Co, for breakfast, and go straight to Chiloso's instead. Not even close, have Goode for lunch if you must. If i moved away staples i'd visit again include Hugo's, Liberty Kitchen, Lankford Grocery, Niko Niko's, Fadi's or Laredo Taqueria. That's a weird list of staples.
August 19, 20187 yr Mala Sichuan for Chinese Kau ba on Dunlavy for Vietnamese Xochi for authentic Mexican
October 2, 20187 yr Hearsay Market Square (formerly Hearsay Gastro Lounge) is our go to place downtown. The ambiance is fantastic. The building it is in is allegedly the second oldest building in Houston and is very unique. The food and service are outstanding. The braised ribs may be my favorite meal of all time, but I always swap out the poblano mashed potatoes for the cheddar grits. Edited October 2, 20187 yr by Hate
October 4, 20187 yr Met my wife there many years ago when I went by a different band and didn’t serve food.
October 4, 20187 yr Met my wife there many years ago when I went by a different band and didn’t serve food. I don’t know what that means.It means we've been drinking.
October 4, 20187 yr Wow on the autocorrects. Met my wife at Hearsay many years ago when it was just a bar and went by a different name. And yes in the drinking.
October 4, 20187 yr Mala Sichuan for every lunch and dinner and you'll get through about 1/3 of the menu.
October 4, 20187 yr 8 hours ago, Tyler Durden said: Wow on the autocorrects. Met my wife at Hearsay many years ago when it was just a bar and went by a different name. And yes in the drinking. 12 Spot? That was a graet date spot.
October 4, 20187 yr 12 Spot? That was a graet date spot.Yep. Used to be my favorite bar back when smoking in bars was allowed. The high ceiling meant you weren’t sitting in smoke.
November 8, 20187 yr Headed to Houston tomorrow for the Temple - Houston game on Saturday. Game time is 6 p.m. Saturday. We need one great dinner Friday night and one fun lunch on Saturday. We are staying downtown. We are from Dallas, so for dinner we are not looking for steaks or Mexican or anything we can get here. Prefer something chef driven and interesting. The last we did this we had the tasting menu at The Pass. For lunch, anything casual and fun and preferably in downtown would work. Recommendations appreciated!
November 8, 20187 yr Author Downtown, the Surly standard is Buck's BBQ. You may be able to get Q in Dallas, but you don't get Buck's Saturday special is Butterfinger Brisket For Friday night, I haven't been to the rebuild but Brennan's was one of my all-time favorites go with Turtle soup for the appetizer ... anything you want for the main course ... Bananas Foster to end the day That'll be $9.95 for Wally's dining newsletter subscription
November 8, 20187 yr Xochi for dinner if you want to stay downtown. Buck's if you want BBQ. If you don't want BBQ Hearsay on Market Square has a pretty good brunch. I have always enjoyed MKT Bar (downstairs from Phoenicia). The food won't blow you away, but it's always good food.
November 9, 20187 yr Xochi. Its not mexican that you can get anywhere else in Texas, really. That and its the best restaurant in the city
November 11, 20187 yr Thanks for the recs. Plans changed and we didn't make it in on Friday. We drove up in time for lunch at Xochi. Great, interesting food. Nice service. Walkable to the hotel. Perfect.
December 10, 20187 yr So we were downtown this weekend to celebrate Mrs. Hate's birthday with some friends. As can be seen above, we started Friday night at Hearsay with one of my favorite meals. We woke up and heading down to Midtown for breakfast at Natachee's Supper and punch. It's nothing special except that it reminds me and the wife of Cafe on the Square in San Marcos where we both worked 20+ years ago. Our friends met us at Icon and we proceeded to do some bar hopping in Midtown. We started at a newly opened bar called the Brass Tap. Greta place. It had only been open for a week, so they were still working out a few kinks. The food was good and they had about 30 beers on tap. We headed over to the Beer Market Company for some more cocktails before heading to Escape the Room to try to see if we could escape while substantially buzzed. We did not escape, but I blame that on this one clue that took 20 minutes to solve that was, IMO, not setup correctly and did not point to the information that it was supposed to. At the end, the guy running it tried to show up where that clue was, but he couldn't find it either. Oh well. We were a little hungry then so we went to Oporto Fooding House and Wine (https://www.oportomidtown.us/) for tapas. It was outstanding. We had to wait a while for a table so we had more cocktails. I forgot to take pictures of the food because I was pretty goddamned buzzed at that point, but it was outstanding. great food and great atmosphere there. We had a pretty wide variety of food that I am trying to remember by looking at their website. One of our friends is a big foodie and a big guy (no homo) so he just kept ordering things. Here is the list of things I can remember: Pimentas - really really good CRAB & AVOCADO CROSTINI - outstanding and I normally don't like avacado SHRIMP & CRAB Pizzette - delicious some sort of Spanish meat and cheese plate that I can't find. I think it was from the mix and match section. It was very good, but nothing remarkable. CATAPLANA MUSSELS - very good mussels but not the best I've ever had. Still, very enjoyable. BATATAS - these were delicious. Here is the description from the website: crispy smashed fingerlings/ herbs/ tomato chutney/garlic aioli PREGO - marinated hanger steak/ garlic butter/ house madebolo do caco potato bun/ batatas fritas....**I think this is what we had? I only remember some pieces of steak hanging on a skewer with butter dripping from the top pf the skewer onto the pieces of steak. It was delicious. Goddamn was it delicious. That's all I can remember although we may have also ordered some octopus or squid?? I only remember not trying it because it didn't look very good and it came out towards the end when I was absolutely stuffed. We ended the meal with some sort of espresso drink that is supposed to help digest the food, which is something I needed badly. We left there and went over to the Holman Draft Hall, which was another great place. It was cold as fuck, but they had a little sitting area up a spiral staircase with heater where we were out of the wind. It was a great place. This was the first time I had really bar hopped around Midtown and I was extremely impressed. We had a great time and every place we went was terrific in it's own way. We will absolutely doing that again.
January 17, 20196 yr Going to be doing wife’s bday in Houston Tuesday night (don’t judge - Justin Timberlake concert at Toyota center). Staying at Marriott Marquis. Friends are going with us. Need dinner recs. Reading Hearsay, Xochi, what else... When I go down there it’s usually guys and a steakhouse (which might be fine). I told her friend to plan something but never heard back. Getting short on time.
January 30, 20196 yr My plans hit some road blocks. Wife’s sister is pregnant and having complications. My in-laws (read babysitters) had to drive to Dallas. I had planned on getting downtown earlier. Since that wasn’t an option, we ended up meeting wife’s friend at Grotto before concert for light dinner and drinks. Walked over to concert. Had to head home after because our back up sitter (college girl) had to drive to Austin at 6am the next morning to make it to class. All in all it was a fun night. I got a ton of credit for the effort. For some reason things always happen on my wife’s bday that make things difficult.
June 28, 20196 yr FB post from one of my dear friends who is in process of moving from Dallas to Houston (her doc husband already moved down to run St Luke's Hospital) in the next year or so (oldest kid is staying for SR year at HP): Quote I've been charged with making a dinner reservation for my mother-in-law's 80th birthday - in Houston. Party of 14 or 15, family only, her adult children and teenage grandchildren. She likes classic, simple food and probably likes a restaurant with a timeless reputation like Brennan's. She is not into trendy, loud places, but might be open to a newer restaurant if it suits her. I would really appreciate any suggestions you may have. I know the food in Houston is amazing, but don't know any specific locations. Thanks in advance for your help.
June 28, 20196 yr @C-Man https://www.brennanshouston.com/little-room/ Edited June 28, 20196 yr by elfenix
June 28, 20196 yr 7 minutes ago, C-Man said: St Luke's Hospital Very brave man, that place has very serious issues. Hope he turns it around
June 28, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said: Very brave man, that place has very serious issues. Hope he turns it around The Aids?
June 29, 20196 yr Very brave man, that place has very serious issues. Hope he turns it around He’s a sharp guy. Was pretty high up at Baylor Scott White here in Dallas.
June 29, 20196 yr [mention=298]C-Man[/mention]https://www.brennanshouston.com/little-room/This is the answer.
June 30, 20196 yr For some old school stuff that I didn't discover until I was 40 and had been away from Houston for 16 years, Rudi Lechner's German Restaurant.
June 30, 20196 yr This is the answer. Sounds like they’ve settled on a private room at Ouisie’s (????)
July 1, 20196 yr 7 hours ago, C-Man said: Sounds like they’ve settled on a private room at Ouisie’s (????) Haven't been in a couple years, but I imagine they'll take care of them.
July 6, 20196 yr Have a reservation at the beginning of August. It was the earliest date we could get at a reasonable time.
August 5, 20196 yr I finally checked out Mad on Saturday night. They gave me two seats by walking up. Good atmosphere and bar. Food was better than average.
September 16, 20196 yr We went to a show at the House of Blues this weekend and were looking for a place close by to enjoy a happy hour. We ended up at Three Forks. It was fantastic. Great bar and service and the appetizer menu was outstanding. We had some of the $1 Blue Point Oysters, chicken fried filet mignon, waygu beef cheek & roasted bone marrow (followed by a bourbon shot through the bone), and some sliders of a few different varieties including a fried fish, braised rib, angus beef with lemon aioli, and a regular angus slider. All of it was delicious. The wife and I will try to go back soon to try the steaks although I may have a difficult time paying $85 for a steak. Has anyone here ever had a steak there and how does it compare to Pappas or Vic & Anthony's?
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