The article highlights the most-read Houston restaurant news of 2025, including closures of long-standing and new restaurants, celebrity visits, notable tips, and restaurant openings, with a focus on the upcoming closure of Graffiti Raw on December 31, 2025.
Oversized burger patties can lead to uneven cooking, structural disintegration, and an unbalanced eating experience, making them a potential red flag at burger joints. Properly sized and carefully prepared patties ensure better quality and consistency.
Nutrition experts share tips for dining out while trying to lose weight, including swapping fries for veggies, choosing lean proteins, opting for water over sugary drinks or alcohol, dining out for lunch instead of dinner, asking for dressings and sauces on the side, ordering vegetable soup as a first course, requesting veggies with dip, visualizing portion sizes, and considering steamed lobster as a low-fat, portion-controlled entrée option.
Nutrition experts share tips for dining out while dieting, including swapping fries for veggies, choosing lean proteins, opting for water over sugary drinks, dining out for lunch instead of dinner, ordering dressings and sauces on the side, starting with veggie soup, asking for veggies with dips, visualizing portion sizes, and ordering steamed lobster to control portion sizes and slow down eating speed.
The author shares their love for splitting meals at restaurants, emphasizing how it brings down the bill and fosters closeness with dining companions. They believe group ordering solves dining complications, offers an economical hack, and even reflects relationship dynamics, suggesting that sharing dishes can be a way to ascertain or change the dynamics of a relationship.