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Island Grill: A popular concept reborn
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
FOODIE DIARIES
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AUSTIN IMPORT | Home Slice Pizza vows ‘In Crust We Trust’
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
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HUGO’S | My ultra, ultra birthday dinner
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
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DISH SOCIETY | Dishing Up Some Good Eats
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
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Antonio’s Mexican Grille (oops, I mean ‘swill’)
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
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RELIVE THE ’80s | Are you hungry like a wolf?
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
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HAMSA | Slide into the Middle East on Morningside
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
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Discover what your neighborhood has to offer
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
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WHEN IT’S HOT | Four summer salads to cool you
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
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Surya a joyful discovery
By Jim Ayres Indian cuisine is so fragrantly comforting. To find it so fresh, so full of spice and care and love, in a quiet inner-loop spot is a joyful
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MARMO | A rising star in the Montrose Collective
By Jim Ayres Marmo, in the new Montrose Collective mixed-use development on Lower Westheimer at Grant, is quite a pleasant, sunny L.A.-style restaurant. Once they tighten a few screws, it
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BYE, LANKFORD’S | Flower Child is the new beef
By Jim Ayres After a particularly dull (if I’m being nice) meal at a Houston institution, I’m warming like the weather to one of Houston’s newer, healthier dining options. Let