Archives for the 'Food' Category
Dining Out Club at Pico’s Mex-Mex
| June 12, 2008 | ||
Love eating out? Looking for new places to try and new people to share the experience?
I’m the organizer for Dining Out Club/Houston! We’re a growing bunch of dedicated foodies, all wanting to find exciting places to meet and eat. Once or more each month we go to different restaurants somewhere in (or near) Houston. I’m anxious for you to join in the fun!
- There are no club fees!
- Each attendee pays their own food bill.
- This meeting starts at 7pm and lasts about two hours.
- Some people stay around after the meal to enjoy the venue and the company.
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Entrees are from $12 to $20.
About The Chef at Pico’s
Arnaldo Richards serves the same food he grew up eating. Having parents and grandparents, and even great-grandparents who grew up over the diverse culinary landscape, the menu at Pico?s is a scrapbook of their favorite meals from the seven regions of Mexico. From the Yucatan, comes the method of cooking meats wrapped in banana leaves. Fresh seafood from the waters of the Gulf and the Pacific is cooked with grilled onions and poblano peppers, or the sophisticated sauces from the Mexico City region.
Here is a great sampling of our great special menu items:
Calamares A la Mexicana
A unique twist on an old favorite. We start with succulent fresh calamari, sauté it with onions, add Serrano peppers, cilantro and fresh tomatoes.
Huachinango Tikin Xik
Red Snapper filet seasoned with achiote, charcoal-broiled in banana leaves and served with pickled red onions.
Pollo Pibil
Achiote-marinated baked chicken wrapped in banana leaves and served with pickled red onions.
Chiles en Nogada
Traditional or vegetarian roasted poblano pepper stuffed with shredded pork or wild rice cooked in peanut sauce with olives, almonds and raisins, covered with a cold creamy walnut sauce and sprinkled with pomegranates.
Enchiladas de Mariscos
Sautéed shrimp and crab meat enchiladas with poblano cream sauce and Chihuahua cheese.
From the bar:
Enjoy a famous signature Rita from our bar. We also serve other great wines and spirits, as well. Whatever your pleasure, we can accommodate you.
Pico’s Mex-Mex
5941 Bellaire Blvd
Houston TX 77081
(713) 662-8383
www.picos.net
Houston Wine Geeks at Oporto Cafe and Wine Bar
| May 14, 2008 | ||
Scared of WineSpeak?
Embarrassed when you have to read and order from a wine list? Want to know more about wine and how to enjoy it?
Houston Wine Geeks is an informal group of wine enthusiasts focused on the ins-and-outs of wine appreciation and wine education.
This meeting is after the big International Sommeliers Guild test on Monday May 12. Hopefully, we’ll be celebrating! Come prepared to live and talk wine!
John is moving forward to take the Certified Specialist of Wine Exam (CSW) in New Orleans on May 31, so he’s not done trying to learn everything about wine. This meeting will be all about Portuguese wine including Port.
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Oporto Cafe and Wine Bar
3833 Richmond Avenue
Houston TX 77027
(713) 621-1114
http://oporto.us/
About Oporto Cafe and Wine Bar
Best Tapas 2007
If you’re looking for a swanky wine bar that’ll impress a date, Oporto is your place. The tapas here aren’t snacks; they’re huge. There’s nothing better to nibble on while quaffing a glass of wine than the “Oportobello.” It’s a marinated portobello mushroom topped with spinach and artichoke gratin and finished with white truffle oil. If you’re still hungry after that Texas-size “tapa,” go for the linguiça oporto com batatas, a Portuguese-style sausage sautéed with onion, roasted peppers, potatoes, garlic, port wine and piri-piri oil. Great wines and delicious tapas will surely impress your date, … Saúde
Dining Out Club at Buca di Beppo
| May 22, 2008 | ||
Love eating out? Looking for new places to try and new people to share the experience?
I’m the organizer for Dining Out Club/Houston! We’re a growing bunch of dedicated foodies, all wanting to find exciting places to meet and eat. Once or more each month we go to different restaurants somewhere in (or near) Houston. I’m anxious for you to join in the fun!
- There are no club fees!
- Each attendee pays their own food bill.
- This meeting starts at 7pm and lasts about two hours.
- Some people stay around after the meal to enjoy the venue and the company.
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Interested? Sign up and RSVP for our next meeting. Come every meeting or come when you can!
FYI: We use www.meetup.com as our RSVP/Membership tracking tool. It’s free for you! |
This Meeting
About Buca di Beppo
Buca di Beppo is an authentic Italian restaurant that offers flavorful Italian dining. Dine with family and friends while enjoying the Italian traditions of food, friendship and hospitality. In the spirit of Italian culture, our dishes are served family style and are meant to be shared. Groups small and large come together to pass platters of our mouth-watering cuisine around the table for all to enjoy.
The first Buca di Beppo opened its doors in 1993 in the basement of a Minneapolis apartment building. We’ve since grown to 93 locations nationwide.
Dishes enjoyed for generations in villages throughout Italy inspire our menu, giving Buca its authentic Italian flare. We continue to innovate and create recipes beyond our traditional style by adding new menu items inspired by Northern and Southern Italian cuisine. Come indulge in the Buca experience of unforgettable appetizers, salads, pastas, pizzas, entrees, desserts, beer and fine wine.
Buca di Beppo Italian Restaurant
5192 Buffalo Speedway near US-59
Houston TX 77005
(713) 665-2822
www.bucadibeppo.com/
Dining Out Club at Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant
| June 3, 2008 | ||
Love eating out? Looking for new places to try and new people to share the experience?
I’m the organizer for Dining Out Club/Houston! We’re a growing bunch of dedicated foodies, all wanting to find exciting places to meet and eat. Once or more each month we go to different restaurants somewhere in (or near) Houston. I’m anxious for you to join in the fun!
- There are no club fees!
- Each attendee pays their own food bill.
- This meeting starts at 7pm and lasts about two hours.
- Some people stay around after the meal to enjoy the venue and the company.
|
Interested? Sign up and RSVP for our next meeting. Come every meeting or come when you can!
FYI: We use www.meetup.com as our RSVP/Membership tracking tool. It’s free for you! |
This Meeting
About Blue Nile Restaurant
Blue Nile is a family owned restaurant and has been open since 1994. We have been nominated as one of the best ethnic restaurant among the Houston community. Food lovers will enjoy the unique taste of Ethiopian dishes in a warm and friendly environment.
We serve our traditional dishes with Injera bread that is 100% made of teff. Injera is a soft spongy pancake-like bread made out of teff flour. It is traditionally served in Ethiopia where a variety of stews, meat dishes and salads, are placed upon the injera.
Teff, an Ethiopian Staple, is the smallest grain in the world, yet it contains giant nutrition. It’s high in protein, iron and minerals with a calcium content more than 17 times that of wheat or barley.
Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant
9400 Richmond Ave between Gessner and Fondren
Houston TX 77063
(713) 782-6882
www.bluenilerestaurant.com
