Guerrero-style pork shank, black bean purée, pickled red onions, and habanero salsa.
Hamachi crudo, pitaya, mango & habanero gelée, sour orange, achiote aguachile, and fried plantain. Guajillo roasted octopus, salsa macha, pickled carrot, peas, potatoes, and tonnato aioli.Ī traditional French onion soup with a Mexican twist, poblano peppers, Gruyère cheese, and crostini.Īmerican Zabuton, Melipona honey and chipotle aioli, dill, chives, crispy rice, tomato confit and black brioche crostini. Mussels, saffron beurre blanc, dried chorizo, pickled jalapeño, and homemade sourdough bread.
Raw shrimp, cucumber, red onions, avocado, cilantro, chiles toreados, lime juice, and tostaditas. Tuna, smoked Japanese aguachile, squid ink, cucumber, red onion, cilantro, black avocado mousse, and crispy purple tortilla. Stuffed squid ink tortilla, fish fillet, tomato, onion, garlic, fresh thyme, and avocado salsa. Shiitake, cremini, oyster mushroom, salsa macha, goat cheese, and tortillas. Thick oval-shaped, blue corn masa, black bean purée, haricots verts, salsa cruda, sour cream, and queso fresco. Stuffed, triangle-shaped corn masa, chicken tinga, sour cream, creamy chipotle, and queso fresco. In the meantime, enjoy your bean, which is not as good as our bean, and never will be.Creamy avocado, pico de gallo, lime juice, Huitzuco cheese, and tortilla chips.īaby romaine, roasted poblano dressing, oven-roasted tomatoes, avocado, sunflowers seeds, and queso de Cincho.įingerling potatoes, salsa macha, lime juice, charred avocado, and mint jocoque.Īmaranth-crusted baby red beets, pickled yellow beets, mole rosa, candied hibiscus flowers, and Robiola goat cheese. But the outpouring of bile from Houston has genuinely surprised me, and given me hope that you may one day amount to something worthy of our rivalry. A handful of Houstonians even got that I was poking fun at our own desperate need for prominence.Īs a certified hater, I thought I’d never find as chippy a city as Chicago. But I am grateful for all the new enemies I made on Twitter, and all of the mean emails I got - even your temperate, good-natured ones. It doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. I got into this hoping to score a luxury trip to Houston with all expenses paid out of the pocket of some local booster. So everyone who wants to live in Houston deserves to do so. I don't suppose that there are any fewer smart, kind, creative people in Houston than anyplace else. And I respect your acknowledgment that Houston has significant room to improve. You know, it's a nice image you paint, especially once you airbrushed out all the McMansions. It's a pleasure, living in a city like that.Īnd it means that the H-bean, unlike the Chi-bean, will keep getting better.Īny final thoughts? It’s been a pleasure fighting with you. And it keeps getting better all the time.
It wouldn’t always have been great, but it’s better now than it used to be. So let me come back to that image from your last note, Kim - the child looking at the Houston bean, and seeing Houston reflected back. It's probably time to bring this to a close. But every morning as I make my 6-mile commute that takes just 10 minutes, I’m thankful I live here. It’s a fine city three or four months of the year, and I might even return someday to visit. I chose Houston and don’t ever want to return to live in Chicago.
Now, fresh with a suntan from a beautiful March day playing in the waves and sand, I have a new perspective. Like you, I had misperceptions about Houston before I threw away my shovels and winter boots to move here two years ago.
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