Category: FOOD

  • Best | David Pick’s His Top 5

    The choice of wines at 100 wines by David Walker. Photography by Robert Bunka These wines pack a double punch – great tasting and easy on the budget. Click here to view full article on Page 20 of the Fall 2009 issue of City Style and Living magazine


  • Hugo Ortega | Mexican King

    Originally from Mexico, Chef Hugo Ortega immigrated to the United States working as a night janitor and dishwasher in restaurants, gradually becoming a line cook in Houston in 1990. “I worked on my English skills and was able to graduate from Houston Community College Culinary Program and I became a working chef at Backstreet Café…


  • CSL Insider | Houston

    The Steakhouse at The San Luis Resort [dmalbum path=”/wp-content/uploads/dm-albums/Steakhouse San Luis/”/] “I make my way to the San Luis Resort, where all the rooms overlook the ocean.  There are beach amenities right outside the door including H20 their swim up bar.  There is a parrot mascot inside that begins talking to me as soon as…


  • Classic | Herb Roasted Chicken

    Ingredients 1 plump chicken (3- 4 pounds) Kosher salt (to your taste and diet) Freshly ground black pepper (to your taste) 1 healthy bunch of thyme, rosemary (other fresh herbs optional and to your taste) 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard Directions Preheat the oven to 450°F. Rinse the chicken, pat dry with paper towels. 1. Salt…


  • Theo Schoenegger | Be Italian

    Growing up in the town of San Candido in Northeastern Italy, Theo Shoenegger was surrounded by an environment where, “at one point you had something to do with everything on the table. so if it was a mushroom, you went to pick it, if it was a potato, you grew it.” Chef shoenegger cites his…