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¡BREAKFAST! (near Magnolia)
¡BREAKFAST! (near Magnolia)
Breakfast Tacos: Lone Star Taco, Texas and Main (1 block, opens 7AM)
Paris Café: As you exit Magnolia Hotel, on your right (opens 7 AM)
Starbucks: 723 Main St., 1-2 blocks from Magnolia (opens 6 AM)
LUNCH around the museum
Café Leonelli (two locations in MFAH: Kinder Building and Glassell School)
Le Jardinier (Kinder Building, $$$)
Monarch, Hotel Zaza (one block): $20ish, can be good for people watching. Menu here
Lucille's, 5512 La Branch (three blocks): real Southern
Bodegas Taco Shop: 1200 Binz St #160 (two blocks): Tex-mex tacos ($)
Fadi's, 1801 Binz (12 minute walk): Fresh Mediterranean ($)
Mo' Better Brews: 1201 Southmore Blvd (8 minute walk) Vegan with good coffee
DINNER: Downtown Restaurants
DINNER: Downtown Restaurants
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Downtown Houston contains James Beard award-winning chefs (Xochi) as well as mom and pop Italian places that are decades old (Perbacco) and most everything in between. There are a number of "Food Halls" where you can go with a group and have your pick of restuarants and drinks places.
Below are a few local favorites, but you may find things we locals have yet to discover...
Walk to Drinks/Dinner
Walk to Drinks/Dinner
All walk times from Magnolia Hotel
Xochi (Show-Chee) -- Unless you know Oaxaca, Mexico you haven't had this. The real thing. Reservations here. Walk: 10 minutes (click here)
Bravery Chef Hall -- Go with a group and everyone gets to choose their chef station. Favorites: Blind Goat (chef Christine Ha won Masterchef Season 3, and without sight) and BOH--divine pizza, but there is much more. Walk: 6 minutes (click here). Nice outdoor patio.
Underground Food Hall -- Much funkier than Bravery, but with good down-home Pho (a local soup speciality) and Mexican Birria, along with other restaurant stalls and beers galore. Walk: 4 minutes (not a typo, it's around the corner--click here).
Who watches Top Chef anymore on Bravo? It may be time to speed-watch a couple of this season's episodes--it's all Houston this season.
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