Houston Named #1 Texas Restaurant City (Dallas, Bellaire: hotel, neighborhoods, organic)

[mpope409]

Originally Posted by houstoner

Indeed. It's good enough for me and quite a few other Houstonians. I don't eat Italian often (hardly ever). Italian isn't exactly our forte in Texas.

But it could be, and I wish it would. To me, Italian is like high end for your taste buds. Plus, everyone knows how much people love pizza. Great, authentic pizza. If Houston could master its Italian culture, there really wouldn't be much left to conquer.

[person]

Actually the Italian in the suburbs is pretty good.

But wouldn't be much left to conquer? I beg to differ on that one; even if you are just talking about food, there is still a lot of room for improvement. And we are only No 1 in Texas.

[mpope409]

Originally Posted by person

Actually the Italian in the suburbs is pretty good.

But wouldn't be much left to conquer? I beg to differ on that one; even if you are just talking about food, there is still a lot of room for improvement. And we are only No 1 in Texas.

I meant in culture specifically. Not necessarily in culinary areas.

[mpope409]

Originally Posted by TootsieWootsie

In Chicago, for example, you could eat 365 days a year at a different wonderful mom and pop type restaurant with first class cuisine for less than $15-20 per person. You CANNOT do this in Houston.

One could argue that you CANNOT do this anywhere outside of New York and Chicago, and it depends what you call first class cuisine.

On the other hand, why is your post convincing me that you have not really been to Houston??? One must be blind to not see these thousands of very affordable, great restaurants. But as I said earlier, you speak as if you have been over the entire 601 square mileage of Houston, Texas.

[love roses]

When I lived in Houston, I tried to avoid chain resturaunts like the plague, and it wasn't hard to do. There's enough around to keep yourself occupied, at least there was 7+ years ago when I lived in there.

[houstoner]

Originally Posted by mpope409

I meant in culture specifically. Not necessarily in culinary areas.

We would need an influx of Italians to accomplish that, and I don't see that happening anytime soon.

[pwright1]

From one who visits Houston quite often it is truely a great restaurant city. Hole in the wall, fine cuisine and everything in between, it has it all.

[Wysiwyg]

Originally Posted by houstoner

This ain't NYC. Accept it, move on, or move back!

for the record, I am reacting to the quite misleading webpage ... hopefully avoid disappointments again :\ Not sure what stage of defense mechanism is in the works when "houstoners" and other texas natives start suggesting we go back to other states. Unfortunately, I just came from NYC and pizzarias there are shown on TV so almost everyone can relate to my description, i hope.
This ain't even like NYC. Not even close. And I can see that

[Wysiwyg]

does houston celebrate saint patricks day, err like in other cities?

It's also not hard to believe that the best of the best hole-in-the-wall places are in the burbs (somewhere). obviously thats where the hungry kids and adults would be

[mpope409]

Originally Posted by love roses

When I lived in Houston, I tried to avoid chain resturaunts like the plague, and it wasn't hard to do. There's enough around to keep yourself occupied, at least there was 7+ years ago when I lived in there.

And there still is.