Americas in Houston on Post Oak Blvd
If you are in Houston, you have to go here.
Here is a review:
For sheer drama, it's hard to top this jewel in chef Michael Cordúa's restaurant empire. Handsome as the high-ceilinged, rock-walled first floor bar may be, nothing in it prepares you for the dining room above, which includes realistic representations of Incan stonework and way-out light fixtures in wild colors. As the name suggests, influences from North, South and Central America converge here into an eclectic yet harmonious New World Cuisine. Though the lunch and dinner menus vary, the tenderest of meats, breathtaking sauces, elegantly grilled vegetables and unexpected accents are hallmarks of both. For lunch, don't overlook the marvelously meatless yucca polenta or the torta púchica, an open-faced sandwich on a Mexican roll, featuring delicate pork tenderloin awakened by lime, scallions and roasted red peppers. At dinner, try the medallón con cepas, which pairs charred tenderloin with a mushroom-studded Chilean bordelaise sauce. Be sure to explore the wine list, which includes an extensive selection of South American vintages. The service is top-notch and unobtrusively attentive. In all regards, we feel that Américas is a reliable place to take someone you want to impress---or indulge.
I haven't eaten out a lot in San Antonio. We usually just stop and have lunch there when we're driving down to Kingsville, but I love, love, love everything I've ordered at Rosario's (I always send an occasional prayer that they'll one day bottle their hot sauce and sell it here) and Liberty Bar is excellent. I could live on their bread alone.
especially on The Golden Wok!
in austin:
Fonda San Miguel, original Kerby Lane Cafe off 35th, Polvo's (best salsa in town), Capitol City Steakhouse (in the lobby of embassy suites downtown - superb cuts but odd location)
I tried PF Changs and was not impressed.
Does anyone remember a place called Tequila Charlie's on the River Walk? I loved that place. Then one day I head down there and it's GONE. I don't think I've been back to the River Walk since.
Try Grissini (but know that it's not cheap and a meal is supposed to take a while.)
Favorite places would include El Mirador, Mario’s, Liberty Bar, Chris Madrid’s, Boudro’s and this place called Los Valles on the soufside. They have bad ass agua frescas and tacos al pastor.
I try and stay away from chain restaurants as much as possible but they’re unavoidable. But I like California Pizza Kitchen and EZ's. Chain steakhouse restaurants are a rip off. I also especially try and avoid a restaurant that’s off the damn freeway unless I’m going to Whataburger or Subway.
We get EZ's a lot ... because my best friend manages one of them.
EZs is decent. I like the rosemary chicken.
Blue Star is aweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesome. I don't know how that got this far without being mentioned. Love that place. Mexican Manhattan is good too. Van's Seafood on Broadway is pretty decent.
Yes.
I've never been there.
please tell me you only went there because a girl wanted you to take her there...
CHeesecake factory is waaaay overrated. I could get that same food cheaper at a dozen other restaurants. The cheesecake is good, but the food was mediocre.
EZ's is sublime because I get it for free.
Same here.
The food is...ok. It's not bad or great it's just...ok. I love the setup though. I would definately take a girl there. But the food isn't something I would crave or anything.
The Cheesecake Factory in Marina del Rey, CA has awesome food (not just the cheesecake). I've never been to the one in San Antonio though.
I like Papa Dante's too.
PF Changs is excellent here too.
I love Chinese food.
I'm not a big fan of PF Changs, though. If they served the same quality of food in the mall, or somewhere else where the setup wasn't so fancy they would go out of business.
I don't know how you can say that. The quality of the meat at PF Chang's is better than any other Chinese Food place in San Antonio (Golden Wok might be the same).If they served the same quality of food in the mall, or somewhere else where the setup wasn't so fancy they would go out of business.
But I guess it's just preference. To me, Golden Wok and PF Chang's are 10 times better than any of Chinese food restaurant here.
So are the Kung Pao dishes, Chung Bo steak, and just about any other chicken or beef dish. They also have very good noodles ... though they took out Szechwan Chicken Chow Fun, which was my favorite.
One of my beef with PF Changs is the dishes always seem to be a little on the sweet side. I would rather my meat/food/vegetables/whatever be on the salty/ y side. Someting about eating sweet meat just doesn't tickle my pickle. =/
P.S - I've been to PF Changs only 3 times in my life. So I've only tried about 3 dishes. =)
papa dantes is AWESOME!
BBQ--Blue Cactus Cafe
Cheap Mexican--Las Palapas
Steak--Saltgrass
Italian--Capparelli's
Pizza--Rome's
Chinese--Ming Tree
Has anyone here tried SA Prime? I saw them listed on restaurant.com and I was thinking about Father's Day--my husband lives for prime rib. Any info would be appreciated.
A Sunday tradition.
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