Houston Dining on the Cheap - A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Houston - Second Edition

This second edition of the well-received guidebook is completely revised, updated and expanded for 2004 and beyond. Over 320 restaurants are recommneded and profiled in over 540 pages. It will help you discover the best inexpensive restaurants from the thousands of increasingly diverse dining options available in America’s fourth largest, and most sprawling, city. Among the places and specialties described are: authentic Mexican food in seemingly run-down taquerias; barbecue joints; all-American diners; Colombian rotisserie chicken fast food; sushi; Tex-Mex; Vietnamese sandwiches; Italian; pho; the best hamburgers; Chinese; dim sum in the Chinatowns; Indian; chicken fried steak; Middle Eastern; Soul Food; Guatemalan; Persian; Greek; pizza; Thai; Cajun; South American; and more.

This guide is informative, interesting, opinionated and easy to use:

* Descriptive entries of each highlighted restaurants listing the most important information for each

* Listed alphabetically

* Indexed by cuisine

* Indexed by area of town

Mike Riccetti grew up in Houston, and has degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University. He currently lives, works, and dines cheaply and often in Houston. This revised edition of Houston Dining on the Cheap is his second book.