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Etoile offers star cuisine

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Chef Philippe Verpiand, owner of Etoile Cuisine, a new restaurant in Uptown Park, shows food radio talk show host Cleverley Stone how to make two classic French dishes: short ribs and an apple tart.

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Watch them prepare the apple tart: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=8084769

For more information about food, wine and dining in Houston,
listen to Cleverley’s radio show on Saturdays at Noon on Talk 650 AM.
(By the way, she gives out restaurant gift cards on every radio show!)

Houston Restaurant Week 2010: Aug. 1 – 21

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It’s a three-course gourmet dinner menu for $35 per person, with $5 of each dinner sold benefiting the Houston Food Bank.

Houstonians will savor the best of the citys culinary scene during Houston Restaurant Week, the premier philanthropic culinary event benefiting the Houston Food Bank.

The city-wide event, established in 2003, provides diners with the opportunity to sample special menus at Houston’s fine dining restaurants, while helping fight hunger in Houston. Following the popularity and success of the 2009 event, Houston Restaurant Week 2010 has been extended to three weeks at the request of participating restaurants and diners.

This year, Houston Restaurant Week, one of the most successful charity dining events in the country, will showcase 130 restaurants, spanning popular favorites to new hotspots. All participating restaurants will offer a prix fixe, three-course gourmet dinner menu for $35 per person, with $5 of each dinner sold benefiting the Houston Food Bank. New to Houston Restaurant Week 2010, select restaurants will also offer two-course lunch menus for $20, donating $3 of each lunch sold to the Houston Food Bank. All Houston Restaurant Week meals exclude beverages, tax and gratuity.

Houston Restaurant Week is a great occasion for Houstonians to experience our impressive array of dining options at prices that wont break the bank, all while helping to fight hunger, said Cleverley Stone, founder and chair of the event. Last year, we raised a record-breaking $240,000, with 100 percent of funds raised donated to the Houston Food Bank. We hope to raise even more this year to support the Houston Food Bank in their mission to provide food for the hungry in 18 southeast Texas counties.

Houston Restaurant Week offers an inspired opportunity to take action on behalf of families and individuals who suffer from hunger, said Brian Green, CEO of the Houston Food Bank. Each diner at a participating restaurant will provide 15 meals for a hungry child or adult in southeast Texas. Those meals are provided each week to 137,000 individuals who turn to food pantries, senior centers, soup kitchens and shelters for nourishment.

The event is by reservation only. For the latest Houston Restaurant Week information, including restaurant listings, menus, sponsor information, and reservations, visit www.HoustonRestaurantWeek.com.

Follow HRW on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/HouRestaurantWk.
On Facebook at www.Facebook.com/HoustonRestaurantWeek.

Cleverley’s Corner: Seafood Martini

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SEAFOOD MARTINI

SERVES 6

Submitted by Chef Mark Holley
Pesce

Kim Chee Dressing

1 cup mayonnaise

2 tablespoon  rice wine vinegar

3 cup Gin, alcohol burned off

2 cup Kim Chee marinade

3 cup sugar syrup (recipe follows)

3 teaspoon ground black pepper

Combine all ingredients and mix well

Sugar Syrup

3 cup water

2 tablespoons  sugar

3 teaspoon lemon juice

Combine: water, sugar, and lemon in a sauce pan; bring to a boil, and heat until sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat and cool.

Slaw Mix

4 cups  savoy cabbage (shredded)

1 cup purple cabbage (shredded)

2 cup carrots (shredded)

3 cup red onions (julienne)

Mix all ingredients well

Martini

1 recipe slaw mix

3 cup Hearts of palm (diced)

3 cup avocado 2” cubes

2 cup Kim Chee dressing

2 lb cooked Lobster meat (large cubes)

Optional  crab fingers

6ea boiled shrimp peeled and deveined

2 lb jumbo lump crabmeat

3 tablespoons  Kim Chee dressing

Preparation

1. Place slaw mix, hearts of palm and avocado in a mixing bowl.

2. Add 2 cup Kim Chee dressing and toss well. Mound slaw in a chilled Martini glass.

3. Add Lobster, crab, crab fingers, shrimp, and 3 tablespoons of Kim Chee dressing to the bowl and toss to coat.

4. Arrange seafood around slaw.

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Restaurant in the Heights Makes Friends with the Environment

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Many people are discovering that there’s more to going green than just burning less fuel. In Suburban & State News, FOX 26′s Duarte Geraldino takes us inside a unique restaurant to show us how even food service can be eco-friendly.

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/ContentDetail?contentId=6795586

ZAGAT Releases 2008 Texas Dining Guide

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ZAGATA national restaurant guide debuting its critiques in Texas has rated Houstonians as the nation’s most frequent diners and praised the restaurants that make dining out worthwhile.

Zagat Survey, LLC.’s latest survey shows the average Houstonians eat an average of 4.2 meals out each week, nearly one meal per week more than the national average of 3.3 meals, according to an official company statement. Houstonians also beat San Antonio residents, who dine out an average for 4 meals a day and Austin residents, who dine out an average of 3.7 times a week. 

Company officials say Texans dine out more often than the rest of the country, and that’s partially because they get the most of out of their money. In Houston, diners spend an average of $29.01, which is lower than the state average of $33.67 but actually is more expensive than Austin and San Antonio.

But at which restaurants should Houstonians invest their money and belly?  Zagat critics ranked Mark’s American Cuisine, 1658 Westheimer Road, No. 1 in the Houston eatery market. 

However, critics also praised other area restaurants, including:

  • Reef, the new seafood restaurant in Midtown
  • Blue Fin, the Uptown-Sushi spin off
  • SoVino wine bar
  • Star Chef Robert Gadsby’s new Washington Avenue eatery, Soma
  • Robert Del Grande’s The Grove in downtown
  • Neapolitan-rooted Amici in Sugar Land
  • French-influenced Aura in Missouri City
  • Killen’s Steakhouse in Pearland

Statistically speaking, Japanese food seemed to be on the rise statewide, according to the release. In Houston, Kanomwan and Japanerio’s restaurants were ranked among the best Japanese restaurants in the city.

“The diversity of dining options and the number of talented chefs in Texas is as big as the state itself,”  CEO of Zagat Survey Tim Zagat said in the prepared statement.  “And with the cost of dining so reasonable, it’s no wonder people in Texas dine out as frequently as they do.”
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