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ShareThisHouston's Chef-Designed Culinary Tours
Saveur.com
The visitors bureau of Houston, Texas, has hit on a great idea for food tours: round up the most passionate chefs in the city, ask them where they love to eat on their days off, and build an itinerary around that. Then invite the public.
Houston Food Tours Go Whole Hog
Austin American-Statesman
The idea of Houston Culinary Tours is for Houston chefs to show us where they like to eat.
Howdy, Houston!
San Francisco Examiner
Chefs help introduce visitors to eclectic regional food scene.
Dining Destinations to Watch in 2011
BudgetTravel.com
Chefs are so enamored of Houston's ethnic food scene that a few of them have partnered up to offer culinary tours.
Tasting tour
Southwest Airlines Spirit
The tours celebrate authentic eateries. You might begin with Thai tea and Kee Mao noodles at Asia Market and end at Esther's Cajun Cafe and Soul Food for oxtails and sweet cornbread.
Food Tours That Satisfy
USA Today
The city's reputation as a culinary hotspot is growing, thanks, in part, to local celebrity chefs who are gaining national exposure.
Houston Culinary Tours Ramping Up Again
Houston Press
If you're one of the 32 to grab one, it'll make a lovely Christmas present for your favorite food lover...
Go on a Dream Date with Local Chefs
Houston Chronicle
Does a trek of regional and global foods without leaving Houston sound good to you?
Cultural Capital
Continental Magazine
What may surprise some is the generosity of the city's top chefs, many of whom host Houston Culinary Tours, which highlight the city's lesser known ethnic and family restaurants.
Where the Chefs Eat
Texas Highways
With these tours, you'll see a side of Houston you might not know existed.
Taste of the Town
Continental Magazine
The outings are designed to showcase the city's diverse neighborhoods, markets and restaurants, with tastings at each stop.
Off the Eaten Path
Go Magazine
Few [urban food tours] are as insightful or as focused on hidden spots as Houston's chef-led excursions.
Front Burner
Food Arts
It was fascinating to see these well-respected chefs and find out how diverse their interests and influences are. I think every city should do this.
Culinary Tours Keep Guests' Plates Full
Dallas Morning News
This is like being invited to join a couple of chefs on their days off to eat at mom-and-pop diners.
Set a Place for Culinary Tours
Texas Meetings & Events
Some tours visit undiscovered restaurants where renowned chefs eat on their nights off, while others focus on chefs' favorite markets for exotic fruits and spices.
Texas Taste Buds: New Chef-Led Tours Explore the City's Off-the-Beaten Path Eateries, Markets
Chicago-Sun Times
The idea is to introduce people to the city’s under-the-radar restaurants and markets — and help give Houston’s diverse food scene the cred its chefs say is long overdue.
Houston: Where the Chefs Eat
WowOwow.com
Food afficionados journey to Houston just to sample some of the city’s acclaimed eating establishments – Reef, Catalan, Pesce, T’afia, Hugo’s and the Breakfast Klub. But savory cuisine is also found in unlikely local spots, so the city’s prize-winning chefs have joined the Houston tourist bureau to let food lovers in on their favorite off-the-beaten-track, hole-in-the-wall, mom-and-pop, obscure cafes – disclosing the "local joints" to which they go to find inspiration and to dine on their own days off.
Houston, Bite by Single Bite
Magazine BLU
Unlike other cities’ culinary tours, this one does not focus upon uber-trendy, high dollar, see-and-be-seen dining venues. Instead, the group is led through unexplored neighborhoods, undiscovered restaurants, and markets where the chefs prefer to eat, gain inspiration for their menus, and buy the ingredients of their renowned recipes.
A Food Lovers' Tour of the Town
Houston Chronicle
One of Houston's most unforgettable dining experiences is so special and limited that it's almost impossible to book. But once you secure a spot on the Where the Chefs Eat culinary tour, get ready for the culinary ride of your life.
Hitting the BBQ Trail with Robb Walsh
HoustonPress.com
The inaugural tour took place...in two back-to-back trips around town that left us wondering where Walsh gets his stamina (we're guessing in part from all the protein consumed that day).
Houston Culinary Tours
002 Magazine
Now you can join Houston's brightest chefs on tours of the small, intimate, ethnic restaurants whose recipes have been passed down from generation to generation.
Dives Alive!
Houston Magazine
Houston's top fine dining chefs are joining a movement to shine a spotlight on the city's best and most diverse dives, and so far it seems a smash.
9 Ways to Taste Houston (Like an Expert)
NYPost.com
It's easy to conclude that Houston has one of the most satisfying food scenes in the country right now.
Chefs Chris Shepherd and Randy Evans
Martha Stewart Living Radio
Chefs discuss Houston's diverse culinary scene.
Hungry People Wanted
New York Post
Top chefs and food critics in Houston are coming together in 2010 to open up the city's intriguing and diverse food scene to both locals and visitors.
Houston Restaurants Are Finally Getting a Little R-E-S-P-E-C-T
CultureMap
The national media has dissed our beloved city on far too many occasions, but now it seems our dishes may be bringing us some respect.
Chefs Help Find the Unsung but Scrumptious
Houston Chronicle
Houston already has a reputation for its fancy restaurants. But how about those places that are small, family-owned and often run by immigrants?
Hop On Board: Houston Culinary Tours Embarking Soon
Houston Press
Have you ever wanted to cruise around with one of your favorite chefs, picking their brains as you hit his favorite hole-in-the-wall restaurants in the city? Your chance to do just that is coming soon.
Get on the Bus for Houston's Magical Culinary Tour
Houston Chronicle
Imagine a bus filled with a small group of foodies taking a tour (a culinary pub crawl is more like it) of select small, independent and ethnic restaurants in Houston. At every stop you eat great meals and learn about cuisines that have been passed from generation to generation.
The Wrap-up: Restaurant Tour Might Interest Foodies
Houston Chronicle
Four chefs who are putting Houston's restaurant scene on the national map are leading tours, in conjunction with Whole Foods and the Greater Houston Convention & Visitors Bureau, to show us where they like to eat when the apron's off.
Chef-Led Culinary Tours Begin in Houston This Spring.
Texas Journey
The city's top chefs personally design each tour to focus on such topics as specialized ethnic eateries.
GHCVB Coordinates Culinary Tours of the City, Led by Chefs.
Paper City
The five-hour excursions will take foodies to off-the-beaten path favorites.
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