I adore this place. Italian owner, cooks and all staff. Best pizzas in town, house made pastas, octopus, veal, amazing menu. I will be very sad if it closes and way out West Westheimer, it doesn’t get a lot of traffic. The shepherd location closed due to building issues. It was leaky. 4 seasons pizza is my favorite.
I love that place too, great service and wonderful food. Each bite a symphony of flavors and scents.
OK, I’m kidding. What place, Lambsy?
Is it Mascalzone?
Well she wanted to keep it a secret so it wouldn’t get too popular and busy and you’ve gone and given it away!
Oh dear. My age is showing. Yes, Mascalzone.
Also, later I went by Sam’s Burgers Fries and Pies on Dairy Ashford by Hebert’s and picked up a piece of chocolate cream pie. The pies are great.
But I noticed that Hebert’s serves lunch, poboys and such. I don’t know why I never noticed that. Has anyone been? I’ve only been in the grocery section.
Any New Mexican cuisine lovers here? I love to visit our neighbor state for a different take on fusion Mex/US food. I visited Santa Fe last year and loved the food. There is a pea that was served with almost every meal it seems, but I can’t recall the name of it.
Anyway, to my knowledge there is only one New Mexican restaurant in town and I went for lunch. Santa Fe Flats has been on my list for a long while, it’s at 249 and Louetta in the Tomball area and I finally made it.
I was pleasantly surprised the food was quite good and I’ll return. The first question in NM is often, “red, green or Christmas?” so my intention was to get some red chile sauce stacked enchiladas. But I ordered the chopped green chile and chicken stuffed rolled sour cream enchiladas that came with rice and posole which I loved and ate first. I had convinced myself I didn’t like posole but this rich red chile sauce stewed pork dish with tiny hominy was delicious.
The chips came with a red salsa with big pieces of sweet onion and cilantro and a cilantro creamy dipping sauce that was thin, thinner than you find say at Chuy’s.
Tex Mex also available, sand box and margaritas on a large front patio for frazzled parents.
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There are now 8 locations in town of BB’s Cafe, a Tex-Orleans eatery, and yet I haven’t been.
This place is awesome. I had a small order of 5 jumbo uber-crispy panko breaded fried shrimp (for a very reasonable $12.95) with a side of perfectly spiced red beans and rice. I only wish there were more beans and less rice.
The shrimp comes on a bed of skinny fries with a garlic toast. That little cheesy garlic toast was fantastic. A+
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Did you go to the little one on Eldridge? We used to have lunch pretty regularly for the Tuesday special - half a poboy and a cup of gumbo.
I like it very well. When available, the soft shell crab poboy is excellent.
I did! It’s fairly new though I thought. The Tuesday special is now a crispy chicken with cajun cream gravy. I debated that choice. I’m excited about the soft shell, it’s a favorite.
I then drove down Memorial between Eldridge and Hwy 6 to the post office and was so saddened by the destruction. Whole neighborhoods deserted with security companies manning the entrance roads, damaged restaurants and office buildings empty. Even Kickerillo’s estate is destroyed. I wonder how many will return. Cafe Benedicte was there a long time and it’s demo’d.
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Yeah, I drive that stretch fairly often. It’s actually pretty clean now. It was a LOT worse a month ago.
I have been intending to get there for years and have never made it. Thanks for the report.
I had seen this list recently and made note of it.
I’ve been to most of those but there were a couple I’d never heard of. I was in the mood for a sandwich recently and headed out to Barbar to try the Chicken Francisco.
I do not want to say the bread was the best part of the sandwich but I loved the bread. Light crust, nice and soft. I think this is the only sandwich they use this bread on. Chicken breast, lettuce, mayo, pickle tomato, kernel corn and mushrooms. The menu said there would be cheese but there was none; menu didn’t mention mushrooms. Whatever. A good sandwich. I thought the addition of a little bit of kernel corn to add a little crunch was neat.
Fattouche - supposed to be a bread salad using up leftover pita bread. The thin bread had been baked until it was crisp and shattery, making it impossible to get into the mouth except by scooping. Coulda used a spoon instead of a fork. Dressing was very tart lemon with a little olive oil and then pomegranate syrup was drizzled over it all. It was over-powering to me. I generally prefer subtler salad dressings so wouldn’t order this again. To each his own.
Pollo Asado, Medio, con chile, cibolla, arroz, charros, salsas, tortillas de maiz y limon
from Pollos y Tacos La Bala, mobile unit on S. Post Oak @ Willow
Muy sabroso.
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I was reading somewhere about Ramen Jin recently, and when I saw the street sign for it I pulled in for lunch. I still had a hard time finding it because there’s no signs anywhere on the frontage of the restaurant or even inside. Strange all the other stores have signs above the doors.
Anyway, it’s on Westheimer at Wilcrest near the new rotating sushi bar. I had the spicy miso. It was very hot and satisfying. This is definitely a no-frills place.
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Well the food looks interesting, not the seating 
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I gotta admit, this is the first time I’ve had ramen in a restaurant and not out of a cardboard cup from aisle 4 at Kroger, so I have nothing to compare it to but it was pretty darn lucious, the noodles were realy silky and the broth has lots of flavor, but as many say on Yelp (which I looked at after), I added salt and some seasoning from a shaker on the table.
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HI think I’ll start a 2018 thread for lunches on Monday!
Le Colonial opened with a bang this year and is the new darling of River Oaks. In fact, one writer suggested that it is responsible for the shuttering of Salt Air seafood restaurant as the tony crowd was distracted by this shiny new spot.
The lunch was good, not great. The squash soup was really sweet, the baguette for the banh mi was not crunchy and that disappointed my DH. The baguette was from Slow Dough. The crispy pork and shrimp rolls were very good and the green curry shrimp was very nice.
However, you will pay 1/3 the price at virtually ANY other Vietnamese place in greater Houston. Someone’s got to pay the rent here in the River Oaks District Shopping Mall, and that’s you. And the crowd was, as expected, the landed gentry, which makes me a tad nervous. I loved the dining room though and we had the cutest little corner table.
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The green curry looks good. What are the drizzles on the squash soup?
Interesting about Salt Air; that one did come and go pretty quickly. I thought from what I read it was as much about being seen as it was about eating good food.
Sweet coconut cream and not sure what the red was, it was slightly spicy. Pumpkin seeds.
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