FOODIE DIARIES

By Jim Ayres  I’m writing you a love letter, of sorts. To tell you I love your food and service.   But I’m also writing with love in my heart to

By Jim Ayres   Remember Miami Subs? In its 1990s heyday, its South Beach-inspired pastels and pink and blue neon lights and interiors were seemingly everywhere. Miami Subs did, indeed, serve submarine

By Jim Ayres Recently I read an online “best in your state†slideshow listicle that declared Home Slice Pizza to be Texas’ best. Critics have written that this Austin import

By Jim Ayres  I always thought, and still do, that Hugo’s on Westheimer has the most decadent weekend brunch in town. Buffet tables surround the vibrant dining room, overflowing with

By Jim Ayres Happy November, MONTROSE STAR readers! Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays and I hope you all will have a nice and filling one.  A friend and

By Jim Ayres Why am I writing this month’s Foodie Diary so far ahead of deadline? I’m having a moment over this evening’s restaurant and don’t want to forget the

By Jim Ayres I had a most triumphant Sunday “brunch†recently at a place called Hungry Like the Wolf. If you suddenly hear Duran Duran playing their biggest hit from

By Jim Ayres The night I visited Hamsa was the night I fell in love.  Not with my dining companion (it wasn’t a date.) And not with anyone else. It

By Jim Ayres Did you miss me? I certainly missed you, STAR readers.   Mobility issues have kept me homebound for a few months, but miracles happen and I’m on the

By Jim Ayres  If you work from home (as I do), you may only have a fleeting knowledge that the height of summer is upon us. It’s hot and humid