In With the Old
The building may be aged, but the food at San Antonio’s Brigid is up-to-date.
Patricia Sharpe’s restaurant column on the places and people who shape Texas’s dining scene
The building may be aged, but the food at San Antonio’s Brigid is up-to-date.
State of Grace may be new, but it evokes memories of old Houston.
A new Spanish-style restaurant, Bullfight, puts Austin’s once sketchy Airport Boulevard right in the middle of the dining arena.
How Evan Turner opened the taverna Helen in a fit of passion—and brought Houston a modern twist on dolmades.
Are Houston’s suburbs ready for “gel spheres” and “carbonated pineapple conserve”?…
At Italic, the couple behind 24 Diner, Easy Tiger, and Arro worked out the kinks before they opened their doors.
At the Dallas ramen shop Ten, you have to stand to eat the food—all the better to give it the ovation it deserves.
Houston’s Oporto Fooding House is almost certainly the finest Italian-Portuguese-Indian fusion restaurant in the world.
What happens when veterans of two of Austin’s finest Mexican and Thai restaurants try their hand at Mediterranean cuisine? Very delicious things.
Yes, a key ingredient at Austin’s Gardner usually comes in the form of a bale. But you wouldn’t want to squander these astonishing dishes on a horse.
Le Cep’s contemporary French cuisine drags Fort Worth’s culinary scene into the twenty-first century. Don’t have a cow, monsieur. …
Nose-to-tail, locally sourced, and heavy on the protein: Austin chef Jesse Griffiths’s Dai Due moves from the supper club circuit to a permanent home.
Despite its name, Pax Americana is not exactly a tranquil space. But after one taste of chef Adam Dorris’s menu, who could stay calm?…
Get your biscuits down to Austin and revel in a new take on classic Southern meals at Olamaie.
Gloriously novel flavors permeate the menu at Stephan Pyles’s latest venture, San Salvaje.
California chefs Bradley and Bryan Ogden give the Lone Star State a whirl.
The setting and wine list may be sophisticated, but down-to-earth French fare gives Austin’s La V everyday appeal.
Chef Jon Bonnell’s new venture is the biggest fish to surface in Fort Worth’s West 7th development.
Austin’s modern new Thai restaurant Sway takes a clue from Down Under.
At Houston’s theatrical Pass, to dine is to be entertained.
For October, Pat Sharpe selected Boulevardier, a modern French bistro in Dallas, as Pat’s Pick. I spoke with Nathan Tate, executive chef of Boulevardier, about his brand new restaurant, French food, and his favorite dishes on the menu. (In case you haven’t heard, …
Tim Love Pack your bags, Top Chef fans; your favorite culinary reality show is setting sail in April 2013….on a cruise. With Gail Simmons and Tom Colicchio as the celebrity hosts, Top Chef:…