James Cristinian

Best meal I ever ate:

My grandmother's fried fish, red snapper or speckled trout, skin on, and her fried chicken. I've got the fish down pretty well, I can't touch her chicken.

My current drink of choice:

I really like a good margaita, best is at Arturo's in Nuevo Progresso just across the border. Just lime juice, cazadores, and controy. Somehow the controy tastes better than actual cointreau.

I really wish I could:

Have enough time and money to fish and play golf. I can only be good at one, for now it's fishing.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

What, exactly, is a dinner party?

My favorite comfort food:

Oysters, currently eating poached in butter and white wine at Mardi Gras bar and grill in Houston. Also love theirs fried as well as BBQ Inn.

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Brennan's Houston, Mardi Gras Grill, Red Snapper Inn, Surfside, Galvan's Bbq, Richmond, El Tiempo on Washington

My most tattered cookbooks:

Oceans of Cooking from Rockport also Pirates Pantry out of Louisiana.