Inside My Table #70 | Contents
ExcerptOn the coverKim Coffman has been photographing events and restaurant subjects for nearly a decade. His work appears frequently in many local and national publications. |
32 2005 HOUSTON CULINARY AWARDS: WHO WON WHAT?
October’s awards dinner broke with several traditions and invented some new ones. Here’s what the evening looked like, plus a line-up of the winners.
34 COVER STORY: HOUSTON BISTROS: CHIC, LOCAL AND GLOBAL
The very word “bistro” seems to have an allure for Americans. It may conjure up chic Paris, or the enchanting, brilliant-hued South of France, or Manhattan where one shares elbow space with urbane patrons, seemingly all denizens of Park Avenue or the better zip codes in Westchester County. In Houston, we’ve synthesized an international bistro style all of our own.
By Mike Riccetti
Photograph by Kim Coffman
64 JUST DESSERTS: AISLE ALWAYS LOVE YOU
The recent announcement that Randalls will close 15 Houston-area stores came as no surprise to our writer. Why? She didn’t have inside information, wasn’t following the company stock and hadn’t read anything in the newspaper’s business section. So why did she anticipate the grocer’s failure? It’s simple. She shops.
By Myra Cunningham Byrd
9 TABLE TALK
9 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
10 HOUSTON BITES BACK
Includes Letters to the Editor, Noteworthy Openings & Closings, Tasting the Town, On The Road, Edible Etymology, Recommended Reading, Man About Town & more
22 MR. ANON
Mr. Anon’s 2005 Turkey Awards
28 INDEX TO OUR FIRST 70 ISSUES
46 SALUD
A toast to Ettienne and Ralph Leibman
50 DINING WITHOUT BORDERS
Best of the Wurst
52 LISTINGS
Go For the Bistro
54 RESTAURANT REVIEWS
Sorrento Ristorante
El Centro
55 ADVERTISER DIRECTORY
60 THE EATER’S DIGEST
Restaurant reports from our correspondents in Galveston and Whitney
