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One of Houston’s most treasured restaurants will soon have a familiar face leading the kitchen. Kate McLean will return to Tony’s as its executiv ....
The best six wines to salvage this mess of a year FacebookTwitterEmail 1of7 Chronicle Wine Columnist Dale Robertson tasted a lot of wine this year. Here’s what he liked best.Yalonda M. James / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of7 3of7 4of72017 Exterra Tempranillo Texas Hill Country Salt Lick VineyardsDale Robertson / ContributorShow MoreShow Less 5of71999 Schramsberg J. Schram Late Disgorged Sparkling WineDale Robertson / ContributorShow MoreShow Less 6of7 It was early spring, and I was delighted to be wandering in the Hill Country, albeit on an overly ambitious itinerary. The morning started at the Fall Creek tasting room in Driftwood. Visits to the new Wedding Oak Winery tasting room in Burnet and Fall Creek’s winery in Tow followed, as did a stop at Spicewood Vineyards. ....
How Covid-19 changed everything. The table-side Turnerâs wedge salad. I first read a story about Covid-19 in January and made a casual observation to my wife, something along the lines of Hmmm, this thing seems serious.  In February a friend and I were embarking on a four-restaurant food crawl and talking about the fate of Asian-American-operated restaurants across Houston. Sales were down dramatically as people avoided these restaurants, primarily because of unfounded and false rumors that the coronavirus was spreading through those establishments. In early March it seemed inevitable that everything was about to change. By mid-month, all restaurants and bars across Harris County were ordered to close for dine-in service. In the following weeks, operators scrambled to figure out how to work a new reality. I heard the word pivot more times than I could count. I stopped writing restaurant reviews and, instead, focused on pantry items and kitchen equipm ....
LIST: These are prominent people with Houston and Texas ties we lost in 2020 Published: Tags: FILE - In this May 31, 2020 file photo, visitors make silent visits to organic memorial featuring a mural of George Floyd, near the spot where he died while in police custody, in Minneapolis, Minn. On Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2020, the Minneapolis City Council will decide whether to shrink the city s police department while violent crime is already soaring and redirect funding toward alternatives for reducing violence. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) HOUSTON – The year 2020 was a hard one for all of us, and one of the hardest things is saying good-bye. ....