Pino's -Italian At Voss and Westheimer
Tracey
How's Pino's today?
I know it always makes Zindlers Blue Ribbon list, but is it still really
good?
Albert Nurick
Pino's isn't bad, but we like George's Pastaria, right across Hilcroft
behind Doneraki, quite a bit better.
--
Albert Nurick
alb...@nurick.com
www.nurick.com
Keith Morgan
Just so that you'll know, Pino's is actually located on Hillcroft --NOT
Voss--, just a stone's throw south of Westheimer.
Of course, Hillcroft becomes S. Voss north of Westheimer, & vice
versa. Anyway, just thought I'd correct you on this.
Best Regards,
Keith
Judy
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> Tracey wrote:
> > I've had dinner at Pino's, but its been awhile.
> >
> > How's Pino's today?
> >
> > I know it always makes Zindlers Blue Ribbon list, but is it still
> > really good?
>
> Pino's isn't bad, but we like George's Pastaria, right across Hilcroft
> behind Doneraki, quite a bit better.
This thread brings up a pet peeve of mine.
Marvin Zindler's Blue Ribbon list has nothing to do with how good the food
is. It is an award for cleanliness. That, of course, is an excellent
quality to look for in a restaurant, but it often has nothing to do with how
good the food tastes!
Judy
P.S. I like George's Pastaria, too!
Albert Nurick
> This thread brings up a pet peeve of mine.
>
> Marvin Zindler's Blue Ribbon list has nothing to do with how good the
> food is. It is an award for cleanliness. That, of course, is an
> excellent quality to look for in a restaurant, but it often has
> nothing to do with how good the food tastes!
I'm glad you said it, because I feel the same way; it's a useful
metric, but it really doesn't tell us anything about the cuisine.
> P.S. I like George's Pastaria, too!
Hmmm... might be a fun spot for an h.e dinner!
Brian Oblivion
should try Antonio's Flying Pasta, just a bit down Hillcroft from both
those joints. I used to work there and got a free meal every night as
a perk. It is a pretty exceptional joint, if you can stand the kitch.
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:04:35 GMT, "Albert Nurick" <alb...@nurick.com>
wrote:
Tracey
Judy wrote:
Why is it a pet peeve? A clean kitchen is certifiable, yet food quality is
highly subjective.
Tracey
Albert Nurick wrote:
The idea is very simple, why are you missing it? In a town that has 8
million fly, and roach infested asian, mexican, and you name it
restaurants, Marvin helps out tremendously by telling the public about
kitchens that are "Clean, Clean, Clean!".
You have to go there to decide for yourself if the food tastes good.
Do you want him to pre chew your food for you, too?
Tracey
Frank Matthews
health department reports is investigative journalism.
Frank Matthews
Albert Nurick
> "This thread brings up a pet peeve of mine."
>
> Why is it a pet peeve? A clean kitchen is certifiable, yet food
> quality is highly subjective.
Because we enjoy food, Tracey, and can tell the difference between
good food and mediocre food.
Marvin's award is nice, but says zilch about the flavor of what comes
out on the plate, and whether or not we'll enjoy it.
IMO, a clean kitchen is a given, not a plus.
Albert Nurick
> Albert Nurick wrote:
>> metric, but it really doesn't tell us anything about the cuisine.
>
> million fly, and roach infested asian, mexican, and you name it
> restaurants, Marvin helps out tremendously by telling the public about
> kitchens that are "Clean, Clean, Clean!".
Er, OK. Perhaps if you frequented a better class of establishment
you wouldn't have to be so focused on Marvin's award. (Nice jump
at the chance to put one of your typical bigoted comments, too.
Bravo.)
> You have to go there to decide for yourself if the food tastes good.
But with the thousands of restaurants in Houston, I rely on the
opinions of folks I trust here on houston.eats to steer me in the
direction of those restaurants they've enjoyed.
> Do you want him to pre chew your food for you, too?
Tracey, you're an idiot.
Albert Nurick
> I would be up for a new pasta place, just tell us when.
I'm thinking the upcoming week might be bad with July 4th and all; perhaps
dinner sometime the following week?
Bill Galloway
weeks ago... Both my wife and I thought the food was still excellent.
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Tracey
Albert Nurick wrote:
Do you want Marvin to tell you what he thinks about the food when his old
taste buds are marginally functional? Or, just take his advice on which
joints are clean, and go discover the menu yourself.
Tracey
Albert Nurick wrote:
Obviously, Houston's Health Dept. is racist since they are the ones
discovering all those minority owned, mostly asian, dumps out there along
Houston's roads.
If Marvin and the Health Dept. didn't mention the name of the joint that has
rat turds in its flour, and live roaches swimming in the tea dispenser, how
could you know the kind of food being served there?
You goof ball communists are so politically correct, you fear discussion of
ethnic foods, and poorly run ethnic restaurants. What a bunch of silly
babies.
Tracey
Village / West U. 60s dope smoking liberals in this room, getting an answer out
of them is rather difficult since they lost their ability to concentrate about
1975.
Last time I ate at Pino's, I thought the place had the best service of any
restaurant in Houston. The food was outstanding and whatsmore, the price was
very nice! I used to eat in the Wine Cellar.
Marcus Taliaferro
some operation on an underprivileged kid. Then he makes like Mother Theresa
on KTRK. He acts like without Marvin there is no world.
Take the whore house closing in LaGrange from the 70's. It had been in
operation for 100 years, wasn't hurting anyone. But he had make a name for
himself by closing it. I never went there, never would. Do you think just
because he closed that location, prostitution is out of business in
LaGrange? He is an ass as far as I'm concerned.
M
"Frank Matthews" <MATT...@MATH.CL.UH.EDU> wrote in message
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vonroach
wrote:
>Marvin disgusts me. He does some good when he gets his rich cronies to do
>some operation on an underprivileged kid. Then he makes like Mother Theresa
>on KTRK. He acts like without Marvin there is no world.
>
>Take the whore house closing in LaGrange from the 70's. It had been in
>operation for 100 years, wasn't hurting anyone. But he had make a name for
>himself by closing it. I never went there, never would. Do you think just
>because he closed that location, prostitution is out of business in
>LaGrange? He is an ass as far as I'm concerned.
>M
He apparently got under your skin, Marcus. :-) ) Are you an Aggie?
Todd Brooks
intelligence.
I'm an Aggie, and LaGrange is far from Bryan/College Station....what does
closing a brothel in LaGrange have to do with Aggies??
I really shouldn't be feeding the trolls, but come on guys, this is
pathetic!
todd
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vonroach
<tbr...@houston.rr.no-spam.please.com> wrote:
>Interesting that you must constantly show your complete lack of
>intelligence.
>
>I'm an Aggie, and LaGrange is far from Bryan/College Station....what does
>closing a brothel in LaGrange have to do with Aggies??
>
>I really shouldn't be feeding the trolls, but come on guys, this is
>pathetic!
>
>todd
>
Lack of intelligence, tod? Well, let's see. I correctly identified you
as an Aggie, to your own surprise. But you show some deficit in the
intellectual department yourself, since you see unaware that Aggies
were among the more famous `guests' of the Chicken Ranch in La Grange.
I am surprised myself at a Texan (admitting you may be from
out-of-state) who considers La Grange distant from College Station.
You must consider El Paso half way around the world away. Austin is
distant from College Station, but it is mostly in mindset.
Robert E. Lewis
Todd Brooks <tbr...@houston.rr.no-spam.please.com> wrote in message
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> Interesting that you must constantly show your complete lack of
> intelligence.
>
> I'm an Aggie, and LaGrange is far from Bryan/College Station....what does
> closing a brothel in LaGrange have to do with Aggies??
>
> I really shouldn't be feeding the trolls, but come on guys, this is
> pathetic!
>
> todd
I have fortunately plonked vonroach, so I didn't see the original post (and
this shouldn't be construed as endorsing his trolling), but...
" During the 1950s the ranch reached its sixteen-girl maximum.
On some weekends there was a line at the door, made of students
and soldiers from the nearby military bases. One base even
supplied transportation via helicopter to the ranch. A visit to the
Chicken Ranch also became part of freshman initiation at Texas A&M."
That's from the "Handbook of Texas Online report on the Chicken Ranch,"
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/ysc1.html
(Admittedly, that's a U.T.-housed website, but it's basically what I recall
hearing about the Ranch over the years, and it's certainly what was depicted
in the Broadway musical.)
Robert
(Who suddenly realizes why his nephew wants to go to A&M! <G>)
vonroach
<rle...@brazosport.cc.tx.us> wrote:
>Robert
>(Who suddenly realizes why his nephew wants to go to A&M! <G>)
Excellent choice; I hope he has a better sense of distance than a few
of the Aggies who post notes.
Todd Brooks
> >I really shouldn't be feeding the trolls, but come on guys, this is
> >pathetic!
> >
> >todd
> >
> Lack of intelligence, tod?
Yes, intelligence. You can't even spell my name correctly even though you
responded to my post.
> Well, let's see. I correctly identified you
> as an Aggie, to your own surprise.
Actually, I was responding to your post to another person. You did not
identify ME as an Aggie. Do you not understand how to use usenet, news
readers, Google or the net itself? Unbelievable.
> I am surprised myself at a Texan (admitting you may be from
> out-of-state) who considers La Grange distant from College Station.
> You must consider El Paso half way around the world away. Austin is
> distant from College Station, but it is mostly in mindset.
Considering what is available around College Station and colleges and
universities in closer proximity to La Grange other than TAMU I was say that
my original point was valid.
todd
Todd Brooks
> On some weekends there was a line at the door, made of students
> and soldiers from the nearby military bases. One base even
> supplied transportation via helicopter to the ranch. A visit to the
> Chicken Ranch also became part of freshman initiation at Texas A&M."
>
> That's from the "Handbook of Texas Online report on the Chicken Ranch,"
> http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/ysc1.html
>
I stand corrected, Robert. But that quote was not in the original post, nor
did the roach refer to it. There were _plenty_ of good looking girls at
TAMU when I went there and I didn't need to go to a brothel to...um...have
fun.
todd
vonroach
<tbr...@houston.rr.no-spam.please.com> wrote:
>Yes, intelligence. You can't even spell my name correctly even though you
>responded to my post.
Shame tod, I only suspected like most Aggies, you had a bit of trouble
with your name.
vonroach
<tbr...@houston.rr.no-spam.please.com> wrote:
>I stand corrected, Robert. But that quote was not in the original post, nor
>did the roach refer to it. There were _plenty_ of good looking girls at
>TAMU when I went there and I didn't need to go to a brothel to...um...have
>fun.
>
>todd
Ah, a baby boomer from the Maggie era. Surely you are suggesting that
the Maggies are promiscuous?
Robert E. Lewis
Todd Brooks <tbr...@houston.rr.no-spam.please.com> wrote:
Maybe the co-eds at A&M in the '50s (when the Chicken Ranch outings were an
Aggie freshman tradition) were less inclined to that kind of... um... fun
than women of later years, hence the brothel trips then.
So... the chicks in College Station were good... how 'bout Dixie Chicken?
Any good? I see their bumper stickers from time to time - is it a genuine
endorsement, just traditional to have a Dixie Chicken bumper sticker if you
live in the area, or does the place send employees out to slap the stickers
on patrons' cars, like they used to do at Gilley's?
(See? It took a couple of posts, but we got it back on food!)
<G>
Robert
PS - on another Aggie-related food subject, my mother, a Texas-Ex, considers
the development of a maroon carrot by A&M researchers to be a nefarious
attempt to usurp a vegetable ordained by God to be UT-orange. Shame on
y'all!
Judy
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> Maybe the co-eds at A&M in the '50s (when the Chicken Ranch outings were
an
> Aggie freshman tradition) were less inclined to that kind of... um... fun
> than women of later years, hence the brothel trips then.
>
Prior to 1963, women weren't even allowed to enroll in Texas A&M! (And in
1963 they were only allowed in "on a limited basis" according to A&M's own
webpage http://www.tamu.edu/125/timeline2.html )
No wonder they needed "field trips" to La Grange!
Judy
ObFood: I really miss the old Bon Ton restaurant in La Grange. I have
wonderful memories of eating there way back in the early 70s when they were
still in that little hole in the wall just off the courthouse square.
kerr
considers
> the development of a maroon carrot by A&M researchers to be a nefarious
> attempt to usurp a vegetable ordained by God to be UT-orange. Shame on
> y'all!
I thought the maroon carrots were supposed to be better for you. Higher in
beta carotene (whatever that is).
Kerr.
kerr
> 1963 they were only allowed in "on a limited basis" according to A&M's own
> webpage http://www.tamu.edu/125/timeline2.html )
I believe some women were always allowed to be students. But only if they
were the daughters of professors or had some other connection to the school.
> ObFood: I really miss the old Bon Ton restaurant in La Grange. I have
> wonderful memories of eating there way back in the early 70s when they
were
> still in that little hole in the wall just off the courthouse square.
I remember them on the square. Then they moved east of downtown. Then they
moved again by the bypass.
Kerr.
Todd Brooks
Pearl, Lite, etc). When I was there, it was where all the wannabe cowboys
hung out. Lot of binge drinking etc. Of course, at the time, it was the
place to be, though in retrospect it was juvenile.
Funny (in a depraved way) incident, though. When you get your TAMU senior
ring, you take it to the Chicken and "dunk it". For those not in the know,
that means buying a pitcher of beer, dropping your ring in the pitcher and
drinking the entire pitcher until you get to the ring. The binge drinkers
would always compare times, etc. But one evening while in the Chicken, I
saw a woman dunk her ring in a pitcher in which she put a fifth of vodka in
it (the Chicken allows you to bring in your own liquor). Not only that, but
this woman actually drank the pitcher to get her ring...whether or not she
lived afterwards, I don't know.
The Chicken is part of the traditions at TAMU. If you ever head up to
College Station to visit it is definitely a place you should at least step
into to say that you have been there.
Regards,
todd
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Robert E. Lewis
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Oh sure, that's what they tell you,to get you to buy them. They're probably
laced with something addictive. It's insidious, I tell ya!
I also heard that A&M scientists are splicing genes from an octopus into a
chicken, to produce a chicken with eight drumsticks.
Robert
sa...@paleblue.com
> > Maybe the co-eds at A&M in the '50s (when the Chicken Ranch outings were
> an
> > Aggie freshman tradition) were less inclined to that kind of... um...
fun
> > than women of later years, hence the brothel trips then.
<<SNIPPED>>
There were NO co-eds at aNm in the 50's. aNm didn't accept women, (if you
can call them that), until the mid to late 60's, IIRC.
Hookem'
\\m//
Judy
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I think they are supposedly higher in beta carotene.
They taste wonderful raw -- very sweet and crunchy. The problem comes when
you try cooking them. They still taste sweet, but the color turns out a
strange grayish brown! Ick!
Judy
K. Collier
"kerr" <rke...@houston.rr.kom> wrote in message
The women or the restaurant? ;-)
K. Collier
> The Chicken is just a simple bar; selling cheap beer by the pitcher
(Busch,
> Pearl, Lite, etc). When I was there, it was where all the wannabe cowboys
> hung out. Lot of binge drinking etc. Of course, at the time, it was the
> place to be, though in retrospect it was juvenile.
>
> Funny (in a depraved way) incident, though. When you get your TAMU senior
> ring, you take it to the Chicken and "dunk it". For those not in the
know,
> that means buying a pitcher of beer, dropping your ring in the pitcher and
> drinking the entire pitcher until you get to the ring. The binge drinkers
> would always compare times, etc. But one evening while in the Chicken, I
> saw a woman dunk her ring in a pitcher in which she put a fifth of vodka
in
> it (the Chicken allows you to bring in your own liquor). Not only that,
but
> this woman actually drank the pitcher to get her ring...whether or not she
> lived afterwards, I don't know.
>
>
> todd
>
If the Chicken lets you bring in your own liquor, I think they are in gross
violation of Texas drinking establishments laws as dictated by the TABC, no?
You can either sell or let 'em bring their own, but I do not think you can
do both unless you close the establishment for a private party.
Kevin
Todd Brooks
bottles of liquor every now and then. Every now and then you would see
someone sitting at a table with a bottle of Jack or Jim or something
similar. Never thought much about it when I was there...
kerr
gross
> violation of Texas drinking establishments laws as dictated by the TABC,
no?
> You can either sell or let 'em bring their own, but I do not think you can
> do both unless you close the establishment for a private party.
>
> Kevin
I think if the place has a license to only sell beer & wine (no hard
liquor), then they can let you bring in your own hard liquor. If you have a
license to sell hard liquor as well as beer & wine, then customers cannot
bring in anything.
Kerr.
Robert
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Bars all over this area use to sell you set-ups for your bottle. That was a
cup of ice, coke or 7-up and you used your bottle. I think it may depend on
what kind of license they held too. Not sure if that is still allowed since
I haven't been in a bar for a very long time.
K. Collier
"kerr" <rke...@houston.rr.kom> wrote in message
Thanks for the clarification.
Albert Nurick
> The Chicken is part of the traditions at TAMU. If you ever head up to
> College Station to visit it is definitely a place you should at least
> step into to say that you have been there.
I did it after driving to College Station for a UT-A&M football game;
the Longhorns won, and the Chicken wasn't a friendly place for someone
in a UT sweatshirt. ;-)
All in all, it's a bar catering to college students. <shrug>
Jack Tyler
>
> >
> the development of a maroon carrot by A&M researchers to be a nefarious
> attempt to usurp a vegetable ordained by God to be UT-orange. Shame on
> y'all!
Robert
Still on Aggie-food-related subjects, I was happy when A&M announced
the once revered... now, ordinary and hot, 1015 Onion. The idea was
attractive and exciting that Texas had a new product that would make
those hicks in Vidalia cry in their onion soup bowls. Unfortunately,
now, there are 1050 "sweet" onions popping out everywhere from the Rio
Grande Valley to deep within Mexico, and every year, they've gotten
hotter and hotter. I've gone back to Vidalias for my Peanut Butter
and Onion Sandwiches.
Jack Tyler