Category Archives: Dining

Dining

Valentine’s Day 2021 Dining In and Around Houston

Whatever your choice for this Valentine.....eating out or eating in, please support our local restaurants on this very important dining weekend

Friday, February 5th, 2021

It’s that time again! Valentine’s Day is creeping up on us, and whether you celebrate it or not, it’s a great excuse to dine out (or in) with the one(s) you love. And these days we’re taking any chance we get to support our local restaurants and businesses. See below for some of our favorite […]

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Local Highlight: “Jarcuterie” Around Town

Thursday, January 28th, 2021

as published by the Houston Chronicle Swift + Company’s “Jarcuterie” using The Fab Fete Brio Trio soufflé as the base and layered with a fan of apples and pears, cured meats, Marcona almonds, roasted red and yellow grape tomatoes, herbed mozzarella, olives, cheese straw, and baguette crisps. Last week, my friend and Houston Chronicle Food […]

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MFAH Announces The Much Anticipated Two New Restaurants Coming This Spring to the Kinder Building

A lovely and much needed addition to Museum District dining

Sunday, January 17th, 2021

When the magnificent Rich and Nancy Kinder Building opened in November 2020, we were all in awe of this spectacular building and the works of art within it. However, there was also a buzz going on at the press previews as we saw the empty spaces that were soon to become (2) restaurants. I was […]

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Stunning Oyster-Focused Waterfront Restaurant, Pier 6 Seafood & Oyster House, Now Open

Take a look at the restaurant and its owners that are making "tide-to-table" a new buzz in dining local

Wednesday, January 13th, 2021

As we made our treck (which is nothing by the way, just shy of an hour) down to the bay area to visit this new hot restaurant that I kept hearing about and that my own kids, the chicken people, Nicole & Michael, had visited three times already. It was for me a trip down […]

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Ben Berg’s Restaurants Going All Out for the Holidays

Including Visits by Santa this Weekend!

Thursday, December 3rd, 2020

If you are like me, living through this challenging year we have had, it has been a year of missing things, many of our favorite things……..certainly missing seeing friends enough but also missing my trips to Italy and at this moment it’s all about missing my decades-long December trip to New York City, (I would […]

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Popular Caterer and Soufflé Queen Launches New Venture

Elizabeth Swift's Fab Fête frozen soufflés are the missing link to epic cheese boards

Sunday, November 22nd, 2020

If we have mastered anything this year, it’s how to pivot. Arguably the most widely used word of the year, businesses large and small have had to dance their way around unprecedented challenges and push all creative boundaries. 2020 has forced everyone to think outside of the box, but for events expert, Elizabeth Swift Copeland, […]

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One of Our Favorite Houston Restaurants is BACK – Update

La Table has reopened with fresh updates and we loved it!

After posting this story on the then soon-to-be-reopened La Table restaurant last Sunday (Nov.15), I was invited by its GM, Valerio Lombardozzi to a most entertaining night of dining on the newly revamped menu. Valerio and his waiter, Ciro, both Italians here directly from some of my favorite areas of Italy………Rome and Amalfi Coast respectively, […]

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2020….A Unique Year Calls For A Different Kind of Turkey Day For So Many

Giving Thanks this year on a smaller scale can mean a change of approach to dining......let our local restaurants lend a helping hand!

Sunday, November 15th, 2020

If you’re like me you have had a difficult time deciding just what to do about this Thanksgving holiday that is approaching very quickly. It has always been our family’s favorite holiday and in fact, having my traditional Thanksgiving feast with many family and friends has been my very favorite gathering of the holidays and […]

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Dine-around……a long-awaited re-visit to some local restaurant favorites

A look at some of the restaurants we visited plus more to come soon......it was a week-long eatorama!

Sunday, October 18th, 2020

Like many of us that have been in our Covid survival mode for the last several months, we have spent a great amount of time supporting our local restaurants from afar. Yes, for our family, restaurant dining has largely been restricted to rare outdoor dining(still our favorite way to dine-in) but mostly curbside pick-up and […]

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Houston Restaurant Weeks Extended…..Good News for Local Dining

HRW extends to end of September due to popularity and support for our restaurants

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

Houston Restaurant Weeks announced yesterday that in response to the overwhelming success and positive feedback, HRW will extend through the end of September beyond its usual Labor Day end date. The decision to extend stems from the positive economic impact HRW has had on the restaurants and all industries that support them. For thousands of […]