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re: Houston Rated #1 Food City, Cleveland #7, NOLA #15
Posted on 8/26/15 at 1:41 pm to Ldrake53
Posted on 8/26/15 at 1:41 pm to Ldrake53
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Food drives New Orleans; it's what's on everybody's mind throughout the day; what's for dinner. WHere is the best crawfish this week. Will I get a table at the new hot café, etc.
Truth. The quality of the food scene is a lot more than just the individual restaurants. New Orleans culture is based significantly on dining and food. It's embedded into the city's DNA. I'm really not trying to knock Houston when I say that they don't celebrate food to the degree New Orleans does. Very few cities do.
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Posted on 8/26/15 at 1:42 pm to Ldrake53
quote:i think i've seen some of the same programs as you. i think besh took bourdain to pho tau bay when he filmed there a while back as well.
Seems to me that in the past 6 months every time a reporter contacts Besh, Emeril, Spicer, Gautreaux and asks them where they are dining in NOLA, they talk about the Vietnamese influence and restaurants...
but i don't think it's something that nola does better than houston...just IMO, of course.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 1:46 pm to More beer please
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Add Vietnamese and a fairly strong Asain influence to that list
You do realize Houston has the largest Vietnamese population off the West Coast, right? Second largest community in USA.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 1:55 pm to REG861
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Truth. The quality of the food scene is a lot more than just the individual restaurants. New Orleans culture is based significantly on dining and food. It's embedded into the city's DNA. I'm really not trying to knock Houston when I say that they don't celebrate food to the degree New Orleans does. Very few cities do.
I really wasn't trying to put down Houston at all. One of my favorite cities, great food, shopping, Top Golf - lol - etc. Only thing I dislike about H is traffic. But, Oil drives Houston and food drives Nola and that's the truth.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 2:00 pm to Larry Gooseman
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You do realize Houston has the largest Vietnamese population off the West Coast, right? Second largest community in USA.
But unless you lived there you wouldn't know. I haven't seen any nationally televised TV shows with celebrity chefs doing segments on the Veit food in Houston. Maybe I just missed them. Bigger isn't always better silly Texans.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 2:06 pm to Larry Gooseman
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You do realize Houston has the largest Vietnamese population off the West Coast, right? Second largest community in USA.
If you go by % of population
Houston- 1.7%
Nola- 1.4% and increasing
You are missing the point. Its about the amount of people, its about what that community brings to the culinary table.
If I have to explain to you why the Vietnamese are such a huge part of Nola's culinary makeup then you dont know the seafood industry at all.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 2:08 pm to TigerWise
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But unless you lived there you wouldn't know. I haven't seen any nationally televised TV shows with celebrity chefs doing segments on the Veit food in Houston. Maybe I just missed them. Bigger isn't always better silly Texans.
Well we dont have John Besh in Houston, otherwise I imagine they would go to Vietnames restaurants.
James Beard begs to differ...
Do you even Reef or Underbelly? Those are two examples of heavily Vietnamese influenced restaurants off the top of my head.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 2:09 pm to TigerWise
Houston is the most diverse large city in the country now as far as population mix. Hispanic, Asian, African, Caribbean, etc.
When coupled with the steakhouses and the "traditional" southern food scene, the result is incredibly varied and diverse. Probably unmatched anywhere in the world.
And I'm not a big fan of Houston as a whole... but its got that going for it.
When coupled with the steakhouses and the "traditional" southern food scene, the result is incredibly varied and diverse. Probably unmatched anywhere in the world.
And I'm not a big fan of Houston as a whole... but its got that going for it.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 2:30 pm to TigerWise
Brah you don't know shite it you ain't been to Hughies
Posted on 8/26/15 at 3:01 pm to List Eater
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I just want to say RIP to Big Woodrows
LINK
The food was never great but it was good enough for bar food to watch a game. But it went south real fast, haven't been back in years.
Is Little Woodrow's the same company? Those locations are run a thousand times better than BW ever was. I go to the ones in EaDo and Midtown all the time.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 3:04 pm to BayouBengal
Little Woodrow's has/had no affliation with Big Woodrow's.
Thank God....Big Woodrow's was a shite hole. Good riddance.
Thank God....Big Woodrow's was a shite hole. Good riddance.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 3:07 pm to offshoreangler
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Little Woodrow's has/had no affliation with Big Woodrow's.
Thank God....Big Woodrow's was a shite hole. Good riddance.
I wonder why there wasn't a legal battle. The names are similar enough to cause possible confusion. I'm willing to bet a lot of people assume Little Woodrows were just the ice house/ bar extension of Big Woodrow's business. Steak night at Little Woodrows EaDo is on point by the way.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 3:09 pm to BayouBengal
i sure did think they were affiliated.
i guess the difference in the way operations are ran at both, which is night and day, makes a ton of sense.
turtle races at the midtown location are always packed to hell.
i guess the difference in the way operations are ran at both, which is night and day, makes a ton of sense.
turtle races at the midtown location are always packed to hell.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 3:11 pm to TigerHam85
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Brah you don't know shite it you ain't been to Hughies
Had a blizzard and chicken strips last time I was there.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 3:15 pm to The Egg
Little Woodrow's is a statewide chain nowadays. Houston, Austin, San Antonio, hell they are gonna open one in Midland soon.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 3:57 pm to TigerWise
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Had a blizzard and chicken strips last time I was there.
pretty sure not many will know what you mean but I do!
Posted on 8/26/15 at 6:52 pm to offshoreangler
Houston is a great food city, but I think number one is a big stretch. Can't justify it being ahead of New York and Los Angeles.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 11:19 pm to Larry Gooseman
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This post was edited on 10/20/21 at 11:36 am
Posted on 8/26/15 at 11:55 pm to lsutiger2010
Bun Bo Hue Duc Chuong, Pho Binh, Alpha Bakery, Thein An all beg to differ-hell I'd even put Les Grival up against anything New Orleans has.
Posted on 8/27/15 at 12:21 am to offshoreangler
Houston was all about Vietnamese before it was even slightly mainstream
But it actually was
But it actually was
This post was edited on 8/27/15 at 12:22 am
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