This is the first guidebook dedicated to the best inexpensive and moderately priced restaurants in Houston, one of the most diverse and most interesting restaurant cities in the country. Great Tex-Mex and hickory- and pecan-smoked barbecue are barely scratching the surface among the 250-plus eateries that are recommended and profiled in this accurate, informative and entertaining guide.

Houston Dining on the Cheap - A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Houston - First Edition

Travel

Mike Riccetti

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Tempus Fugit Press

This second edition of the well-received guidebook is completely revised, updated and expanded for 2004 and beyond. Over 320 restaurants are recommneded and profiled in over 540 pages. It will help you discover the best inexpensive restaurants from the thousands of increasingly diverse dining options available in America’s fourth largest, and most sprawling, city. Among the places and specialties described are: authentic Mexican food in seemingly run-down taquerias; barbecue joints; all-American diners; Colombian rotisserie chicken fast food; sushi; Tex-Mex; Vietnamese sandwiches; Italian; pho; the best hamburgers; Chinese; dim sum in the Chinatowns; Indian; chicken fried steak; Middle Eastern; Soul Food; Guatemalan; Persian; Greek; pizza; Thai; Cajun; South American; and more. 
This guide is informative, interesting, opinionated and easy to use: 
* Descriptive entries of each highlighted restaurants listing the most important information for each 
* Listed alphabetically 
* Indexed by cuisine 
* Indexed by area of town

Houston Dining on the Cheap - A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Houston - Second Edition

Unlike the vast majority of books about entertaining, which are really about interior design or over-the-top decoration, are cookbooks, cocktail books, or seemingly vanity projects, "The Guide to Ridiculously Easy Entertaining" is different. It’s practical. It’s geared toward how people actually entertain today: conversing and enjoying the company of friends and acquaintances over good drink and food. This book provides the nuts-and-bolts information that people can really use when entertaining without being didactic and with a sense of humor. It covers all of the basics necessary for successful party planning, plus a lot more. Chock full of food and drink-related information, this book will become a handy reference to use when planning events and even for visiting restaurants or strolling the aisles of local wine, beer and liquor stores.

The Guide to Ridiculously Easy Entertaining - Tips from Marfreless

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Michael Wells

Cooking Education & Reference

Now in a completely revised, updated and thoroughly researched third edition, Houston Dining on the Cheap will help you discover and learn about the 300 best inexpensive restaurants culled from the thousands of increasingly diverse dining options available in America's fourth largest, and most sprawling, city and its surrounding areas. Informative, interesting, opinionated, and very easy to use, there are descriptive profiles for each of the 300 recommended restaurants, which are ordered alphabetically. There are also useful indices that list the restaurants by cuisine, area, and another with helpful, more miscellaneous listings, plus ten Houston restaurant-related asides scattered among the profiles.

Houston Dining on the Cheap - A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Houston - Third Edition

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Houston Dining on the Cheap - A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Houston - First Edition

Houston Dining on the Cheap - A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Houston - Second Edition

The Guide to Ridiculously Easy Entertaining - Tips from Marfreless

Houston Dining on the Cheap - A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Houston - Third Edition