Haute Wheels and Mobile Bistro’s Have you ever seen a parking lot filled with funky food trucks and lines of hungry people waiting their turn to order up? These aren’t your everyday taco trucks you see hovering around construction sites. They are fancy, funky, fresh, and everything in between, mini-restaurants on wheels and the latest [...]
Turquoise Grill & Bar 16019 City Walk, Sugar Land Cuisine: Turkish Mediterranean Price Range: $12.50 – $16.00 entrees Menu: The menu is quite lengthy, but is well categorized to make it easy to narrow your choices. Some items offered are stuffed grape leaves, hummus, tabuleh, fried calamari, smoked salmon roll, various marinated beef and lamb [...]
Cuts of Meat Have you noticed some strange names when shopping for beef or pork lately? There is a group heading up the Uniform Retail Meat Identification Standards (URMIS) who claim that people are confused by the old meat cut names such as pork chops, rump roast or port butt. URMIS thinks people will [...]
If you love crawfish, you’re going to love this recipe! It is highly requested at group gatherings and is a great accompaniment to almost any spicy meal. Here is a shout out to my friend Fred, who introduced me to this recipe. Cajun Crawfish Cornbread • 1 lb. peeled crawfish • 2 boxes Jiffy cornbread [...]
RESTAURANT REVIEW By Denise Monroe Salata 2170 Town Square Place, Sugar Land Cuisine: Upscale Salad Bar Price Range: $8 – $10.00 entrees Menu: The menu offers Salad Bowls such as Cobb, Greek, Southwest, Asian, and Caesar; the Salata Bar, offering any combination of lettuces, toppings, breads, dressings, chicken or seafood; salad wraps, with a choice [...]
Fish Place 24004 Southwest Frwy., Suite 102 Rosenberg, TX 77471 Cuisine: Cajun seafood Price Range: $8.50 – $14 entrees Menu: The menu provided pictures of each entrée and was categorized by House Specials, Classic Grilled or Blackened, Fried Combos, and Fried Meals. They also offer boiled crawfish when in season at $7.99/lb. It was nice [...]
Restaurant Review Diego’s Cantina 1531 Hwy. 6, Sugar Land, TX 77478 Cuisine: Upscale Mexican seafood Price Range: $16 – $38 entrees Menu: The menu offered numerous options in all categories, mostly seafood and traditional. Some very interesting pairings were offered, but they were out of four of the standard menu items. The menu had food [...]
A tip of the hat to the Irish this week. Celebrate St. Patty in the most traditional way by serving up good ole’ Irish Stew. The secret ingredient? Irish beer of course! Add a little red wine in the mix along with a few other additions and you have a quite tasty stew. Irish Stew [...]
Russo’s New York Pizzeria 6560 Greatwood Pkwy., Sugar Land Sunday – Thursday, 11am – 9pm, Friday & Saturday, 11am – 10pm Cuisine: Italian Price Range: $10.55 – $15.95 Meals Served: Lunch and dinner Menu: Other than the pages sticking together, the menu was easy to read; offering a nice variety of options without having too [...]
Nothing brings family and friends together like sharing a good meal and good conversation. That was the focus at the new Salvatore Italian American Bistro’s Grand Re-Opening celebration. In a packed house, Executive Chef and General Manager Michael Wagner welcomed guests to the family with his first, of many, wine tasting dinner event. He began [...]
