Houston Dining on the Cheap - A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Houston - Second Edition (Paperback)

by Mike Riccetti (Author) "All the restaurants that are profiled below are recommended..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

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...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

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 --This text refers to the Perfect Paperback edition.

Product Description
This second edition of the well-received guidebook is completely revised, updated and expanded for 2004 and beyond. Over 320 restaurants are recommneded and profiled in over 540 pages. It will help you discover the best inexpensive restaurants from the thousands of increasingly diverse dining options available in America’s fourth largest, and most sprawling, city. Among the places and specialties described are: authentic Mexican food in seemingly run-down taquerias; barbecue joints; all-American diners; Colombian rotisserie chicken fast food; sushi; Tex-Mex; Vietnamese sandwiches; Italian; pho; the best hamburgers; Chinese; dim sum in the Chinatowns; Indian; chicken fried steak; Middle Eastern; Soul Food; Guatemalan; Persian; Greek; pizza; Thai; Cajun; South American; and more.

This guide is informative, interesting, opinionated and easy to use:

* Descriptive entries of each highlighted restaurants listing the most important information for each

* Listed alphabetically

* Indexed by cuisine

* Indexed by area of town

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Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Tempus Fugit Press; 2 Rev Exp edition (December 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971404011
• ISBN-13: 978-0971404014
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #313,164 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BOOK!, February 26, 2004

By	Jay Caldwell "pop culture geek" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A True Specialist, September 21, 2008

By	Terri Byrne-Dodge (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative and accurate, May 30, 2007

By	Samantha "Samantha" (Cali) - See all my reviews

I lived in Houston for many years, and I am impressed by how well this author knows the Houston restaurant scene. He truly did not leave out any of the tasty cheap restaurants in the city. He even mentions some of the really good but more expensive ones in a special section and guides readers to hard-to-find cuisines like Guatemalan. This is a fantastic book for both locals and visitors.