So far Salmaland covers only NYC restaurants—but I’ll soon be adding my picks for other cities here too. How do I define “soon”? Excellent question. But do stay tuned.
One of those cities will be Houston, where I spent years 9-18 and where my parents live. In the meantime, I’m linking to my New York Times story on Houston restaurants, which ran in the Travel section this past Sunday, February 7.
Houston now has a pulsing, vital food scene—and every time I go there’s an increasingly long list of  spots I want to hit, from high-end to low-end to everything in between, including lots of outstanding ethnic restaurants: Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, Mexican, and much more. A while back Frank Bruni did an excellent NYT story on Feast, one of my favorites. And this season brought some promising new openings to the city: Branch Water Tavern, Haven, and others. More and more, all I really want to do when I’m in Houston is eat—and drag my family and friends there on endless food missions.