Texas Oyster Season Ends Early
The Texas Department of Health closed the oyster season on Friday due to an algae bloom. The problem isn’t the potentially deadly vibrio vulnificus, but another organism called dinophysis, which …
Garden Geeks
Instead of going to the farmer’s market this weekend, why not volunteer at a community garden? You get to pitch in, pull weeds, and get your hand’s dirty–and then you …
Gil Vrazel's Czech Barbecue Shack
If you’re driving hungry on Highway 71 this weekend, consider skipping the burgers and kolaches at Hruska’s in Ellinger and visiting Gil Vrazel instead. Gil’s Bar-B-Que Shack is that little …
Twoberry Jam
Those dewberries I bought on 90A the other day got made into jam. I had about four cups of dewberries, but I also had four cups of strawberries that my …
Elysian Fields Farms: Kobe Lamb?
Grass-fed lamb sounds good. New Zealand lamb is grass fed. Loncito Cartwright’s succulent lamb from Dinero Texas is grass-fed. But the best lamb I have eaten in a long time …
90A Dewberry Stand
Oyster season ends when the dewberries are ripe, or at least that’s the way the native Karankawa tribe figured it. After eating oysters and fish all winter, they moved their …
Throwdown: Tony Vallone vs. Albert Roux
Tony Vallone insisted I try his lobster and asparagus risotto with a poached egg on top. What the hell, right? I had asked Vallone if he had been up Chez …
Oysters and Politics at Gilhooley's
Oysters Gihooley won several more converts yesterday. Mike Lavigne, a government relations consultant from Austin was in town to learn about the oyster biz. He liked the pecan-smoked barbecued oysters …
Que Huong's Vietnamese Salads
This salad at Que Huong restaurant at Beechnut and Wilcrest came highly recommended. It’s a pile of watercress with cold sliced rare steak and shrimp tossed in a light fish …
Hey Chef: Pass the Gravy!
There is a roast beef poor boy topped with a fried egg on the brunch menu at Bistro Alex in the Hotel Sorella. It sounds awesome. And it would be–if …