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Boy, did I taste some great dishes in September. Here are the 10 best, from Seabrook to Katy and everywhere in between: via @houstonchron

Here are the dishes our critic loved most in September

Alison Cook hopscotches from EaDo to Seabrook, from Katy to Upper Kirby and beyond in her...

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3 months

Anyone who knows my love for Houston knows how radical this idea is: I’m just not sure if I want to live here anymore.

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Houston, our Houston:

Vaccine Shaw, Atty At Law ⚖️ 🇳🇬

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2 years

Yall it’s a WHOLE ostrich on the Northside (Beltway8 & Imperial Valley) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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When your neighborhood donut shop makes a serious Vietnamese iced coffee to go with your jalapeño boudin kolache, that’s Houston, baybee

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The heartbreak of coming home to find your neighborhood has power again…except for the houses on your side of the block.

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3 years

@frankthorp @carigervin One of her least attractive traits — and there are many — is how cool she thinks she is.

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3 months

Seen on the Gulf Freeway:

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6 years

@TedLandK5 Look at Jose. Look at Trump. Then tell me who you'd rather have in your corner when the going got tough.

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3 months

I have electricity! It came on while I was giving my elderly dog a cool bath in the tub, & I am overjoyed despite the thunder.

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3 years

Why yes, I’d like a side of misogyny and Covid protocol defiance with my chicken-fried steak:

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7 years

My town: Dep. Constables Fernandez, Tran & Patel rescue a woman down the street from me. Photo by Jon Shapley of @HoustonChron .

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6 years

@TedLandK5 Jose Uriarte is my idea of an American. We are so lucky to have him here!

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2 years

At some point, the GOP war on big Texas cities is going to backfire. I hope I live to see it.

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3 months

Ah, the sweet music of transformers blowing.

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2 months

The Dog Days. Said goodbye to my 17-year-old Australian shepherd mix today. Mitzi, a good scrappy girl found under a picnic table in my neighborhood park.

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4 months

Apparently Mr. Donut on Lawndale sometimes hosts live jazz to go with their Vietnamese iced coffee and jalapeño boudin kolaches: 👹

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2 years

I love Texas so much. But sometimes it just makes me weep.

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5 years

I'm hearing from trusted Chinatown sources that some restaurants are experiencing entire shifts with no customers. Want your fave to be in business going forward? Pay a visit now or you may lose it.

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4 months

I thought this was The Onion, but it's my newspaper:

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4 months

Texas Gun Rights names Kyle Rittenhouse new outreach director

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4 years

Houston restaurants: I'm canvassing to see 1) who will decline/wait to go to 100% occupancy; 2) who will continue to require masks for guests on the move; 3) who will continue to space tables 6' apart. Tweet back at me if you have a moment, please.

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3 years

He voted against it.

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3 years

Texas has millions in COVID-19 rent relief. Here’s how Dallas renters and landlords can get it

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2 months

I’ve written about politics for Texas Monthly, Esquire, the New York Times Magazine and more. You can Google it. So take a hike.

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2 months

@alisoncook When did food critics become business editors?

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4 years

Good morning to Pink and only Pink.

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4 years

Crazy agility by Pink the border collie.. Come for the speed - stay for flying hug...

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4 months

This jalapeño boudin kolache from Mr. Donut on Lawndale is NOT messing around:

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2 years

Houston, step outside to see the full moon. It's a magnificent herald of the Passover/Easter/Ramadan weekend.

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6 years

@amconmag In the world of self-owns, it gets no more self-ownier.

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3 months

Back on my bullshit. Might as well just live at hi way cantina now.

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2 years

Never heard a more brilliant or entertaining rant. Transfixing:

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2 years

"'I didn't think leopards would eat my face', says the man who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party." James O'Brien reacts to the Brexit-backing Conservative peer and Next boss now saying the UK needs more overseas workers. @mrjamesob

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3 months

Rested all weekend in the air conditioning, still walking around in a daze, feeling like I’ve been in a barroom brawl. Anybody else?

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5 years

About once every Houston summer I get so hot and exhausted that I just give up and eat a pint of ice cream for dinner. Today is that day.

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3 years

Every day is Fajita Day in Houston, and that is all I am going to say about that.

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4 years

Texas, our Texas

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4 years

Texas museum removes wax Trump figure after visitors kept punching it

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3 years

@MarkSZaidEsq @SpiroAgnewGhost @CapitolPolice @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews @DavidLaufmanLaw @BradMossEsq sorry Tucker not fit to shine Dunn's shoes

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3 months

What a jerk.

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3 months

Houston politics update: Harris County Judge @LinaHidalgoTX posts a picture with her fiancé, Houston Mayor @whitmire_john comments that "he sure looks like a nerd"

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A sad day for Texas: Acquitting Ken Paxton condones corruption, abuse of power | Opinion

Get ready for more contorting of public offices to dole out favors, more vicious attacks on law enforcement and more state employees staying quiet when they see crimes. | Opinion

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3 years

Sign outside AMF Star Lanes Bowl in Texas City: "Our lanes are waxed, our staff is vaxxed."👹

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4 years

Took a hottish shower and it has renewed my will to live.👹

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3 months

Got up at five am. Power restored by valiant crew at noon thirty. Promptly slept until 7 p.m. my body doesn’t know what hit it.

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10 months

My car just got stolen out of my driveway and the neighbor who alerted me found the thief’s driver’s license lying in the middle of the broken window glass. 😹

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3 months

I feel like giving up.

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2 years

I'm from Vermont, so I wanted to be carefree and unaffected by this, but damn: did Houston go from summer to winter with about 3 days of autumn in between, or what?👹

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3 months

Just spent an hour reading in my car so I could cool off. May go back for another hour as the temp inside is 86.4.

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8 years

Cannot stop smiling at this.

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Best moment of the night, from my 9YO son: "Who's that? Is that Hillary's husband?" The world has already changed, my friends. #Imwithher

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4 years

Just got my first dose of Moderna vaccine @HoustonHealth clinic at Bayou Event Center & feeling some kind of way. Great, efficient setup.

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3 months

Just waited in a loooong line to get gas on the gulf fwy feeder. Ended up taking from 5 minutes to noon until 3:30.

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2 years

Every Texan should read this thread, and sit with it, and search their conscience.

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2 years

This time, four months ago, It was a normal day. I was at my office getting a booklet made for each of my coworkers that would show their growth in their skills to help get them raises. 2 hours from then, I’d get a call that would shatter my world. My wife called, screaming

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27 days

Finally canceled my NYT news subscription. Can’t take the sane-washing anymore, among other things. Downgraded to just games—didn’t know you could do that.

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9 months

From my sister in Vermont:

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3 years

The @CobosQue 💥brisket boudin mac-and-cheese quesadilla💥 is pure (and maniacal) Houston genius. I shall hear no arguments to the contrary. via @houstonchron

Alison Cook: Cobo’s Que brisket boudin mac-and-cheese quesadilla is pure Houston genius

It’s not every day Alison Cook gets to add a dish this wild to her Hall of Fame...

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9 months

Welcome to Houston.

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9 months

On my way back to the hotel I spotted a Sri Lankan/Mexican restaurant…in a liquor store. Seems like an only in Houston kind of place.

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4 years

Experiencing a physical crash right now. After 5 stressful days of just trying to keep warm and keep going, now my muscles have started unclenching. Bam. Everything hurts.

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3 months

Some really wild stuff is going on right in front of my house. Here is the gargantuan crane from Kentucky that stretches about a quarter mile into the air.

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4 years

Just a reminder: for a restaurant to close temporarily after a staffer tests positive or has been exposed by a close contact is the ethical and responsible thing to do. It is in no way a bad thing. They have a choice: to disclose, or to cover up.

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3 months

My faithful ceiling fan is turning again. Oh, how I’ve missed it.

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5 years

@RobertFaturechi @propublica AND after privately warning select group of NC donors/bigwigs that things were going to get bad. Thanks for nothing, Senator. I hope he is prosecuted for insider trading.

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5 years

54 years ago tonight, this Vermonter was settling into her dorm room @RiceUniversity & wondering what she'd got herself into. Happy to say I've never been bored for a single day since.

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3 years

Fact-checked Cousin Ted Cruz @ local Wal-Mart. Hundreds of pecan, sweet potato & pumpkin pies. Mountain of yams. Scores of gravy packets if you don’t use your own turkey drippings. A ton of canned cranberry sauce. Only thing I couldn’t find was fresh cranberries. 👹

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2 months

Gift link. You need to read this. CenterPoint's profits pay for treating legislators & guests to "extraordinary fishing," kitchen serving three meals a day, open bar, pool and poker, on-site staff to help reel in the fish, clean them and filet them for guests to take home.👺

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New = Inside ‘The Pond’ – CenterPoint's private Houston-area retreat used for lobbying Texas politicians Free link past the paywall: …w/ @AmandaDrane @neenareports @carolineghisolf @matt_zdun @datawithleila @dexinvestigates @HoustonChron

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1 year

Hard not to conclude the whole thing was just Kabuki theater.

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6 months

Happening now, God bless Texas.👹

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2 months

No electricity again. I cannot even.

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3 years

Symptoms are worse today, BUT: I can smell my coffee brewing, and my little Kishu mandarins, so I am counting it as a Merry Christmas.

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4 years

So, can we talk about Ken Paxton, Texas?

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6 years

We built this city on...red and green salsa.

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4 years

He's not passing out autographs for people to sell online. He's organizing food for people in need.

Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳

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4 years

REPORT from Lake Charles, Louisiana! This is our field kitchen here at the Walmart parking lot...Cajun Navy next door...We have drive through & walk up lines for food—thousands of hot pasta meals, sandwiches & water being served now! Super hot out! 🥵

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3 months

Only food I crave in my frazzled state is Tex Mex. Fortunately my much loved hi way cantina is open in EaDo. Their fabulous green salsa is giving me life.

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3 years

My dinner table tonight: @houstonbotanic garden, food by chefs Evelyn Garcia and Henry Lu of @kinhtx

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4 years

Gonna eat a pint of El Tiempo guacamole all by myself, ‘cause who’s gonna stop me?

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3 years

Can't get over the fact that just as Kim Kardashian had become a halfway sympathetic figure, she blows it with dunderheaded rich-gal commentary about nobody wanting to work. Epic PR fail.

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4 years

In retrospect, Watergate seems quaint.

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2 years

We have reached the point in the Houston summer where you don't have to turn the hot-water faucet to get warm water from the tap.👹

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3 years

the man has a point

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Lt. General Russel Honore speaking in true Louisiana terms: “Look, if you eat boudin balls and hot dogs — and you trust that — you can take this shot.”

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3 months

Don’t want to go home because it will be hot & pitch black. Sitting in another parking lot where I have cellular service.

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2 years

This may be the best happy hour deal in town: Urbe Trio of smoked brisket & rajas queso flameado, with flour tortillas, guacamole and salsa Mexicans. Lucky 13 bucks!

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2 months

I swear the Houston humidity is so high the air feels like damp fuzz.

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3 months

I think that’s a Houston bingo?

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The storm knocked out my internet while I was trying to upload a video about what to do when a storm knocks out your internet. #Houston

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3 years

Biscuit and her 4 bisquettes

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3 years

I am so tired of so much.

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5 months

Just passed a “Go Away Miles” sign in my neighbors’ front yard. Yes, it’s HISD-related.

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2 years

To whom it may concern: My superior breakfast onion rings, purchased at 9:45 a.m., were fried to order at the venerable Annie’s Hamburgers on S. Post Oak. You’re welcome.

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3 years

The critic’s happiest moment: when the first sip of a cocktail makes you say “Wow, “ out loud, when you’re by yourself; and then your first bite of food makes your eyes roll back in your head.

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2 months

When I was reporting in my 20s and 30s, I was NEVER without a Houston Key Map tossed in the rear passenger seat. @andrewdansby on how we found our way around the sprawling city before smart phones. via @houstonchron

Why this spiral-bound book has remained a key Houston asset in the digital age

The Houston Key Map, which debuted in 1957, was as arresting as it was practical.

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4 years

Just got a text from @HoustonHealth to book a slot for 2nd vaccination shot. Link worked. Heard back quickly. Appointment booked, for just a single day after the 30-day window. Relieved and grateful. New system seems good!

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1 year

Had to pinch myself this morning to believe our Top 100 Restaurants list is finally out in the world. Love it, hate it, use it, argue about it, do all of the things. 👹

Houston Chronicle's Top 100 Restaurants of 2023

Houston's food scene offers everything from BBQ and burgers to fine dining. See the Chronicle's picks for the best restaurants in town.

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7 months

Baby possum now in an incubator at Texas Wildlife Center at the SPCA complex on Old Katy Rd. It’s a boy, slightly skinny but now in good hands. Whew.

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One of my cats just carried in a baby possum as carefully as if it were her kitten. Now what? I’m stumped.

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1 year

Just finished my final (or semifinal) edit on the @HoustonChron Top 100 restaurants project that drops tomorrow at 6 p.m., and I gotta say I really like it.

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4 months

Bad tidings; River Oaks Shopping Center has installed a new “Pay to Park” scan system. That’s right: you now must pay to park at an already overpriced shopping mall. 👺👺👺

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1 year

CNN is dead to me. After tonight, I will not tune in even if aliens land.

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4 years

Why, yes, I drove 64 miles round trip in a downpour because SMOKED MAC AND CHEESE MEAT LOAF! Special today from @brettsbbqshop

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4 years

Whoa. Pappas brothers exploring acquisition of Luby's

Pappas brothers exploring acquisition of Luby’s

A confidentiality agreement disclosed Monday allows the pair access to confidential...

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4 months

Among the things I learned researching our Houston breakfast guide: always order your hash browns extra crispy.

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2 months

It is REALLY weird to want people to pay more for insulin.

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"GOP sexual politics aren’t the only thing that’s weird about them. It’s weird to want people to pay more money for insulin. It’s weird to want to take people’s health-insurance away. I kinda think that's the ballgame."

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4 years

Just ordered a *quart* of butter paneer, some dal stew and a red Rhone for pickup later at @Pondicheri , so my day is looking up.

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5 years

My longtime dream has come true: the @beardfoundation has made Texas its own region for its annual awards.

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1 year

What are the odds that I would start chatting to a man at Goode Co. Cantina over our love for Freddy Fender, only to discover his grandfather founded my all-time favorite Tex-Mex restaurant, Spanish Village, back in 1947? ❤️👹❤️

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Benchawan Jabthong Painter of Houston's Street to Kitchen wins James Beard Award for Best Chef Texas via @houstonchron

Chef at Houston Thai restaurant Street to Kitchen wins James Beard Award

Two other Houston restaurants were finalists: Tatemó for Best New Restaurant and Nancy's...

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4 years

My thoughts are with all the restaurant staffs opening for dinner tonight. May they stay safe. And strong.

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4 years

LaTonya Rafe stroked his hand because no family was there.“Friend,” she said, “I brought you as far as I can take you. It’s OK to let go.” Time of death: 4:16 p.m. July 15 via @HoustonChron

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Saw 4 bars of cellular on my phone when I woke just now and almost cried.

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