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. Bad choice. To......

One of the many quandaries we must tackle in our daily life is our love and affection for eating all things Mexican/Tex-Mex, and the tendency of these places to use lard in damn near everything (we can only assume that lard must be really tasty). So we totally perked up recently when our friend Meteorologist Matt mentioned that he actually calls restaurants around town and keeps a running list of places that do and do......

Westheimer Road is a long, thriving, paved snake of potholed infrastructure. It guides you into town from the Grand Parkway through Beltway 8 and Loop 610 until it brings you all the way into a cozy, little enclave of town we lovingly refer to as The Montrose. Not really the heart of Houston, because that would probably be the Medical Center, but more like the liver or one of the kidneys of Houston as......

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Today, Houstonist submits to you a Tex Mex thought experiment: What if you were to take a decent Tex Mex restaurant, say, Spanish Flower, dim the lights to 15% of their original brightness, spiffy up the wait staff, add a valet service, and stock the restaurant with pretty patrons? Here are but a few of the curious results: your otherwise humdrum Saltillo tile takes on the mysterious hue of an exotic Italian slate. Usually......

Houston's a great food city, and one of the things we're lucky enough to have that lots of cities don't is a plethora of yummy and cheap lunch places. We also have our own cuisine (TexMex, of course!), so what could be better than combining the two? If you're in the mood for Mexican (to eat there or take away), try Berryhill Baja Grill (eleven locations around town). Begun as a tamale stand downtown all......