The Q&A Hole: What’s Your Favorite Comfort Food?

Because everybody needs some gastrointestinal cosseting sometimes

"...diversity of local dining venues, worked a theme of Comfort Food a couple of weeks ago...."

May 22, 2017 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Our Favorite Comfort Food Fixes in Austin

When it's someone else's turn to make the meal, these restaurants delivered comfort on a plate (or bowl)

"...more about enjoying the flavors that bring me judgment-free comfort. I mostly cook at home these days, and try..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Texas Gets Spirited Away

Taste-testing Texas liquors against the world

"...There's a new trend in the Texas adult-beverage business: liquor. Locally produced vodka, rum, limoncello, and..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Day Trips: The Power Plant Texas Grill, Seguin

Comfort food in a comforting place

"...The Power Plant Texas Grill in Seguin has one of the prettiest locations..."

April 16, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Texas Strong Relief, St. Patrick's Day, Persian New Year, Intero's New Pizza, and the Hospitality Howdy-Do of Marriott International

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Austin and the rest of the state continue to..."

March 10, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas-Based Restaurant Chains Worth Your Money

If you're going to eat at a chain, it might as well be a Texas chain

"...a state this large, there are plenty of special Texas-based options. Last year marked the sale of one of..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Top Chef Texas, Week 13: Life on Two Wheels

The chefs go mobile in an homage to "Pee-wee's Big Adventure"

"...sit in my living room, pajama-clad, recapping Top Chef: Texas on a weekday afternoon? Well, believe it. But here..."

Feb. 6, 2012 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

Southern Comfort

The Chronicle food staff has scoured Austin in search of the city's best down-home eateries; they're served up within.

"...the time-honored Southern tradition. Perhaps you don't think of Texas as part of the South, and truth be told,..."

March 3, 2000 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Southern Comfort on SoCo

Lambert's has the buzz, the location, the pedigree, and the menu to make some noise in Austin. But does it have MM Pack's recommendation?

"...Comfort food is a term (and a concept) that has..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

Comfort Food by the Numbers

Facts and figures about your favorite eats

"...research firm Harris Interactive, pizza is the No. 1 comfort food in America, followed by chocolate, ice cream, mac..."

May 5, 2017 Food Feature

Out of the Comfort Zone

For international students and Texans traveling abroad, life is the lesson

"...• Force yourself out of your comfort zone. Travel is the best way to bust up..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Features Feature by Liz Williams

Death Watch: No Comfort, No Closure

Jonas Cherry's parents don't want their son's killer killed

"...the loss of our son, and will not bring comfort or closure." Hamp­ton called the Cherrys' request an "amazing..."

April 7, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Texas Zigs as the Nation Zags and Dashes Dem Dreams

This is how it is now

"...of the election cycle on the part of the Texas Democratic Party. The Johnson/Jordan Dinner, the big schmoozy donor..."

Nov. 11, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Co-Lab Projects' "Texas Toast" Dishes Up a Heapin’ Helping

This group exhibition looks at the food that means the most to us

"...swear there's not a single calorie in it. Titled "Texas Toast," this spread was cooked up by Co-Lab Projects'..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

9 Texas Day Trips That Will Inspire You to Hit the Road

We dip our toe in the nearly 1,500 columns from our resident day tripper

"...As the second-oldest hotel in Texas – only the Menger Hotel in San Antonio is..."

May 13, 2019 Events Post by Gerald E. McLeod

We Were From Texas

Texas Triangle: Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, Townes Van Zandt

"...on the bumper in the dusty streets of Monahans, Texas. "Jack Prigg" reads the inscription on the back. He's..."

July 19, 2013 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Recommended at Texas Book Festival

Capsule reviews and panel info

"...tale of horror. Tinted by its setting in East Texas; by narrative tradition from what used to be called..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Books Feature

Texas Tales

For those of you who are still pondering the eternal question that seems to arise wherever beer and English majors appear together in the Lone Star State, the answer is: Texas does indeed have a separate and distinctive literature, Tom Doyal writes. If you have been arguing the other side of this proposition, the writers and publishers of Texas have issued you a sharp rebuke in their new spring releases.

"...Texas A&M University Press, 266 pp., $29.95..."

May 25, 2001 Books Feature by Tom Doyal

Texas Platters

"...feels when viewing the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Ellen Fullman's "TexasTravelTexture" uses a similar musical approach to evoke images of..."

April 11, 1997 Music Review

Komé Is Reopening, Enoteca Vespaio Has Closed, Texas Keeper Leverages the Triple-Digit Heat, Desert Door Is Searching for the Best New Margarita, and Hopdoddy Is Putting Peanut Butter and Jelly Where, Exactly?

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...we totally feel that. And, usually, we’d try to comfort ourselves with a Fluff meringue, but now…..."

July 20, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Faster Than Sound: Raw Punks Mujeres Podridas on Comfort and Love

Brutal bandmates get nostalgic ahead of free Saturday show at Fairweather Cider

"...of Mujeres Podridas made their way from upbringings in Texas' Rio Grande Valley to current punk production in Austin...."

July 15, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Texas Honey Ham

Still going strong after arson-robbery

"...had other plans. On Saturday morning, March 8, 2014, Texas Honey Ham Company in West Lake was on fire,..."

June 12, 2015 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Texas Toast

Drinking up the Austin Food and Wine Festival

"...past four years," Love agrees. "It's become a true Texas event. From the whole fire pit area in itself..."

April 24, 2015 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Congress: The Texas Five, Plus One

Down to the last inning of Tom DeLay's little game

"...Austinites still feeling dismembered can take little present comfort in the Oct. 18 decision by the U.S. Supreme..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Texas Platters

Jimmy Lafave

"...If you're already a Jimmy LaFave fan, run out..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature

Texas Platters

"...1940, there's little about Phil Ochs' music that says "Texas," other than an affinity in his later recordings for..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Review

More Closings, Some Openings, Kristen Kish, Thai Ice Creams, Texas Wines, and the Spice Must Flow

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...wares, to enjoy the fresh and floral facets of Texas terroir, but we should post a warning here: That..."

Nov. 18, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas' Best Chicken Fried Steaks

That which does not kill us makes us stronger

"...author Scott's obsessively detailed 10-part takedown of obscenely overpriced Texas confectioners Noka Chocolates. ("Who would guess that the world's..."

Jan. 5, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Texas Records

"...blues stomp, "Mama Don't Allow," the listener feels the comfort of knowing the Spankers intimately by the time Wammo..."

Nov. 24, 1995 Music Review

On the Hunt for Chicken Parmigiana in Central Texas

Five local spots (and one in San Antonio) to feed your East Coast craving

"...in San Antonio, but look – Capparelli’s is a Texas treasure and you’re only an hour away. If you..."

Feb. 28, 2019 Food Post by Danny Palumbo

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