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For years Houstonians have grumbled about the lack of dining options in the Museum District. Grumble no more, there's a new taco shop in town. Bodega's Taco Shop is continuing their summer-long Thursday night Party on the Patio this week, with tunes by DJ George.G and giveaways from the mysteriously named "Tequila Drink Sponsors". If you can stand the heat, Bodega's Taco Shop has a spacious patio looking down lovely Caroline Street and boasts some of the best 'ritas in town. We hear the tamarind margarita (pictured) is the way to go.

::Cinco De Mayo Margarita Competition::

While driving through the Galleria area over the weekend, Houstonist stumbled across a new Tex-Mex restaurant dubbed “Maggie Rita’s.” Never one to turn down the opportunity to guzzle a new margarita or two or twenty, we decided to make a night of it at the newest bistro to grace the strip mall at the intersection of Sage and West Alabama and skip out on our traditional Saturday night dinner at Chuy’s.

Oh yeah, it's what we wait for every year, soft shelled crabs. They are in season and delicioso! No pesky cracking of shells, no picking out the meat - just eat the whole succulent crab. One of our favorite places to go for them is Pico's Mex-Mex, where Arnaldo prepares the "Al Mojo de Ajo" - lightly breaded and pan fried in olive oil. They are very limited, so be sure to phone first for availability. Delivered live and fresh, you just can't get any better. So, scuttle on over to 5941 Bellaire Blvd. pronto. Enjoy a PicoRita Silver on the rocks, it comes in a shaker (the only place you get a rocks rita in it's own shaker - and it rocks). If the crabs are all gone - try the Chiles En Nogado, they are ridiculously delicious.

Yes, that is some fried chicken you see. Yes, as the name would have you believe - this is a Mexican Restaurant review. Befuddled? Then you are too new. Or, perhaps, you don't know your fried chicken quite as well as you would like to think you do (just saying, or we need to be corrected by you, our reader). Houstonist loves a challenge, so we gave ourself one - get skinny(er) and keep giving you some food reviews that are not restricted to rice cakes and miniscule frozen entrees. To prepare ourselves for this resolved healthier-ness, we decided to have a last go at some stellar fried chicken. After the pies, cookies, roasted beast and gravy, stuffing and bacon grease addled vegetables the holidays bring, we need to do some thinking about what actually makes it to our pie-hole (and then becomes the junk in our trunk). However, a treat at times is in order - and the fried chicken and frozen margaritas at Spanish Village are a hella treat. We made this pilgrimage about a year ago-ish and found our "tasty" chicken to be too salty and somewhat dry and over-cooked, so, not-so tasty. The memory of chickens past brought us back around for another try.