Above: Julio Hernández, president D’Amore Wine Selections, and Evan Turner, Managing Partner/Beverage Director, Branch Water Tavern, Houston.
“Frog legs have always been sold in Texas,” said a spokesman for Louisiana Foods (Houston) this morning. But they’ve always been Chinese. But that all changed a few months ago when Louisana Food owner Jim Gossen, from Grand Isle, Louisiana, “got behind Louisiana ‘dressed’ frogs.”
Above: Louisiana Frog Pot Pie and Nebbiolo? Hell ya!
Today, whole ‘dressed’ (i.e., cleaned) frogs, sourced in Louisiana are being served in some of the finest restaurants in Texas, like the Branch Water Tavern in Houston, where the Louisiana Frog Pot Pie has been a big hit with patrons and critics alike.
Check out Jim’s awesome blog here.
Above: Reuben Sliders are only $1 during Branch Water Tavern happy hour.
Houston Chroncle restaurant reviewer Alison Cook writes that “Young Branch Water Tavern feels like a classic.”
“If there is one thing I like better than Branch Water Tavern’s complimentary squared-off biscuits, buttery of crumb and hot from the oven,” wrote Alison, “it’s those biscuits piled with soft shreds of pork rillettes and zapped with a little sharp mustard. Now that is a fine American sandwich: ballast for an evening of sipping or carousing; a shareable first course; even a kingly breakfast, wrapped and toted home in a paper sack. And at five bucks for an order of three, those rillettes biscuits are — like much of the menu at this promising new restaurant — a terrific bargain.”
With a great by-the-glass selection, one of the best back bars in town, and a super friendly staff, we tend to agree!
