hangingfire's Profile
888
I go to 888 on Oltorf pretty regularly and like it a lot. Not quite my favorite pho in town, but their grilled squid appetizer is really tasty. Husband likes the vermicelli a lot. And there's a beef dish I had there (name escapes me at the moment) that's really good.
How to clean a fine mesh chinois?
So my shiny new fine mesh chinois is currently soaking in a bucket of water while I try to figure out how to get all the bits of vegetable matter out of the mesh.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Soaking it has gotten some of the bits out, but by no means all.
Authentic Cannoli
Enoteca Vespaio does have pistachios on theirs. I can't remember if the filling had citron or not, however.
Restaurant Suggestions Away from Downtown
That would be Vino Vino (http://www.vinovinotx.com/). Right now, they're still in the process of getting their license to sell drinks; in the meantime, you can go to their wine tastings (they're doing a tasting every night 6pm-8pm for the month of March) and buy bottles of wine. But the full wine-and-snacks-bar concept is still waiting on the licensing.
(And that was supposed to be a reply to hooliganyouth above...)
Lambert's
I went there a couple of weeks ago, just for drinks and snacks at the bar, and was very favorably impressed. Husband got the beef salpicon, which was excellent (smoky, super-flavorful, great with the salsa) and I got the charcuterie plate, which included a duck rillette, foie gras custard, rabbit pate ... and headcheese. Yes. And it was all really, really good. Good selection of cheese, too -- locally made ricotta and goat cheese, plus two others that I can't recall right now. We'll definitely be going back for dinner.
