Now in a completely revised, updated and thoroughly researched third edition, Houston Dining on the Cheap will help you discover and learn about the 300 best inexpensive restaurants culled from the thousands of increasingly diverse dining options available in America's fourth largest, and most sprawling, city and its surrounding areas. Informative, interesting, opinionated, and very easy to use, there are descriptive profiles for each of the 300 recommended restaurants, which are ordered alphabetically. There are also useful indices that list the restaurants by cuisine, area, and another with helpful, more miscellaneous listings, plus ten Houston restaurant-related asides scattered among the profiles.
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What a fun and useful guide!... I highly recommend Houston Dining on the Cheap. If you are like me and eat out a lot, the cost of the book will be returned many times over when you consider all the savings you get when you eat at good but cheap places. --Ted Powers, Jewish Herald Voice, August 9, 2007
...thorough, well-researched --Houston Press, February 6, 2008
Everyone knows that Houston has one of the best selections of restaurants to be found in the United States... For that after-work meal or a casual business lunch or dinner, Mike Riccetti...has written a guide that describes thae best foods at each restaurant, as well as their location, hours and other pertinent information. --Houston Business Journal, July 27, 2007
...thorough, well-researched --Houston Press, February 6, 2008
Everyone knows that Houston has one of the best selections of restaurants to be found in the United States... For that after-work meal or a casual business lunch or dinner, Mike Riccetti...has written a guide that describes thae best foods at each restaurant, as well as their location, hours and other pertinent information. --Houston Business Journal, July 27, 2007
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Mike Riccetti has authored, now, three editions of Houston Dining on the Cheap. He grew up in Houston, and has degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University. He is a regular contributor to My Table and an irregular contributor to other local and national publications, often concerning Houston-area restaurants. This has included work as the Houston editor for Where the Locals Eat and Zagat. He is also the co-author of The Guide to Ridiculously Easy Entertaining - Tips from Marfreless published in 2005. He currently lives, works, and dines cheaply and sometimes not-so-cheaply in Houston.
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Reading this book will make you hungry . . .,
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This review is from: Houston Dining on the Cheap - A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Houston - First Edition (Paperback)
Fortunately, you'll be able to banish your hunger affordably at any of the more than 260 restaurants profiled. This guide is indispensable for anyone looking for new, interesting, and inexpensive places to eat, anywhere in and around Houston. I found that the profiles of the restaurants I know were right on target, so I'm looking forward to trying many others which are new to me. The extensive indexes make it easy to find exactly the cuisine you're in the mood for, or the nearest affordable eats. (Get an extra copy for your car--you never know when hunger will strike while you're in an unfamiliar part of town!) If you live in Houston, you like to eat out. With this book, you can eat someplace different every night. You'll never be bored with the same old food!
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GREAT BOOK!,
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This review is from: Houston Dining on the Cheap - A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Houston - Second Edition (Paperback)
this book is a great source for all the restaurants in Houston. Every food cuisine and area of the city is covered. Who would have known that every food type is here. Mike has done a great job covering the big name restaurants and the small "hole in the walls". If you are in the mood for Korean, Vietnamese sandwiches, hamburgers or central Mexican, Mike has tried it all and rated the best and cheapest.
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This review is from: Houston Dining on the Cheap - A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Houston - Third Edition (Perfect Paperback)
Houston is a big messy city that is dazzling in its culinary and dining options. What I like about this book is that the author keeps his eye on his niche -- cheap eats and only cheap eats. What that means is hundreds of fabulous ethnic restaurants, mom-and-pop diners and the quirkiest dives. If you ever wondered what that interesting little hole-in-the-wall is like, this book will tell you. It's very useful, very detailed.
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