Pappasito's finally opens in downtown hotel — and it's pushing the envelope with new city tricks

When spring gala season reaches full crescendo, few evenings deliver the kind of multisensory bacchanal as the Houston Symphony’s Wine Dinner and Collector’s Auction. On May 2, a sold-out crowd of 365 stylish guests made…

If barbecue is an art form, these are the masters Upon landing in the Caribbean, Spanish explorers used the word “barbacoa” to refer to the natives’ method of slow-cooking meat over a wooden platform, according…

The Pappas family, long known for its consistent Texas genre restaurants, grabs for greatness at its first chef-driven concept — and succeeds. Chef Jason Ryczek marries his West Coast seafood know-how to the Pappas’ Gulf…