{"id":1510,"date":"2017-05-22T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T18:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.venividiedi.net\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2017-05-22T18:10:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T18:10:59","slug":"food-cramming-cru-field-and-tides-ipic-and-tasting-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.venividiedi.net\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"Food Cramming: Cru, Field and Tides, iPic and Tasting Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

The past weekend was one of nicest I’ve had in a while. I was able to do my \u00a0favorite “weekend job” of partaking (and reviewing) Houston’s vibrant foodie scene. I could do this all my life, but it can barely pay for the wine that I drink. \u00a0Day job to the rescue!!!<\/p>\n

We wanted to jumpstart the weekend with wine-tasting. I had an invite at 13Celsius, but the driver\/husband didn’t want to drive all the way to Downtown, so I had to cancel. We went to Beckrew Wine House instead. When we got there, they just opened. There was a big fan on the floor, an attempt to cool the room while the AC was cranking up. For my non-Houston readers, this is a big no-no. AC in Houston heat is \u00a0a necessity. You. Just. Can’t. And yeah, wine while sweating through your make-up? Not cool. I wanted to rush out but D wanted to stay and be polite, so we ordered a glass of wine each and some bruschetta then fled.<\/p>\n

We decided to go to Cru WIne Bar instead.<\/p>\n

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Bubbles flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bubblies paired well with Lobster and Shrimp Dumplings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Prosciutto and Fig Pizza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Filet Mignon! Guess who ordered this? Paired well with Cote du Rhone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Saturday, we were right on schedule. I was asked to write on an old-but-new foodie thing — chilaquiles. It is a traditional Mexican dish that has fried tortillas with green or red salsa poured over it. There is always some sort of meat on the side, usually pulled chicken. This has been popping up in social media, usually as a brunch entree. I chose to go to Field and Tides Restaurant<\/a> up in the Heights. Nothing like the Heights to keep up with the young and the trendy foodies…<\/p>\n

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This is off-the-menu. For critiquing only. I had the sauce on the side because I didn’t want it drenching the egg. Instead of pulled chicken, it had pulled pork. Absolutely amazing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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D had Tomato and Crab stack. It’s actually fried green tomatoes, really good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fried Oysters and Brussel Sprouts. The brussels were a surprise delight. Crispy fried with really good chili honey glaze<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We did our usual trek to Trader Joe’s to forage the foods we will never get in our neck of the woods. Why, oh, why, can’t they open close to Sienna???<\/p>\n

We picked up Beans \u00a0so we can use our newly minted membership cards at iPic<\/a> to watch Guardians of the Galaxy. Ipic is a movie theater with plush seating and gourmet foods.<\/p>\n

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The reclining seats were definitely great<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gourmet food? I wouldn’t go that far. All the fried things we ordered came in cold. D had a great filet mignon slider, though.<\/p>\n

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The drinks pretty much made up for all the food transgressions. Meet my Lookbetternaked margarita. D said \u00a0that his Bordeaux was pretty good too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When we got home, we opened more than a week’s worth of all snail mail (because you know, we’re cool\u2026not!) and found out we had a letter from our new HOA saying that our gate shows signs of rust and needs to be repainted. We had ten days to do it or face a fine. Tenth day is on Monday. WTF.<\/p>\n

At the crack of dawn of Sunday, we went to Lowe’s to get all we needed to paint over the rust. There’s no way we can get someone to come in on a Sunday and do the job so we just have to MacGyver it. And MacGyver we did. We finished before 10am for less than $30. We felt that a reward was in order so we booked a table in Tasting Room<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Loved my Sauternes flight! I will not divulge how much it cost. let’s just say that it was like drinking a very good dry-aged steak\u2026from Japan\u2026!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Here’s my wild mushroom pizza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My only dessert for this week —caramel bread pudding.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s the start of the week now, the dreaded Monday. It’s pouring like crazy. Clinic is slow so I’m finding time to post this all and thank all those I needed to for all the yummy things I had this week. I should really strive harder to have more weekends like that. But for now, back to the day job\u2026.<\/p>\n

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