Try Taste of Texas For Dinner and Hilton Americas for the True Christmas Spirit
Houston’s Award-Winning Taste of Texas Steak Restaurant serves only perfectly aged Certified Angus Beef in a beautifully decorated setting.
Nina and Edd Hendee, owners of Houston’s award-winning Certified Angus Beef steak restaurant Taste of Texas, in the Memorial area have been at it for over 40 years and it shows. Their Holiday tradition will surely brighten your Christmas spirit and treat your family to one of the country’s most successful restaurants. Make sure and call ahead as Taste of Texas will surely be a popular spot during the holidays.
TASTE OF TEXAS HOLIDAY SPECIALS:
Menu Additions:
The Restaurant adds three items to its dining menu during the holidays: Butternut Squash Soup, Apple Spice Cake, and Spiced Pumpkin Cheesecake. All three recipes were featured in Perfectly Aged – pages 106-107, 226-227, and 230-231, respectively.
GIFT CARD SPECIAL:
For many years, the Restaurant has done a Holiday Gift Card Special – For every $100 in gift cards you purchase, we include a free $25 gift card. The special runs from the day after Thanksgiving until Christmas Eve. The gift cards never expire. They can be purchased in-store or online at tasteoftexas.com.
The history of the Gift Card Special is explained in this video: https://vimeo.com/196339495
HOLIDAY TENDERLOIN SPECIAL:
The Grill-At-Home store will be offering a fresh, whole Certified Angus Beef® tenderloin for $149.95. It feeds 8 to 10 guests, is aged 40+ days, and is packaged in a re-usable Taste of Texas thermal bag with ice packs, a meat thermometer, our roast seasoning, and an easy to follow, gourmet roasting guide. It can be picked up on Christmas Eve or sent via courier for an extra fee. Customers can reserve by calling the store at 832-973-7171.
Taste of Texas
10505 Katy Freeway
Houston, TX 77024
713.932.6901
tasteoftexas.com
Hilton Americas-Houston’s Gingerbread Sweet Shop Tips Scale at 2.5 Tons
It’s beginning to look a lot like…gingerbread! Hilton Americas-Houston Pastry Chef Mahesh Weerasinghe and Pastry Sous Chef Glenna Artripe, along with the hotel’s culinary and property operations teams, have created a new holiday gingerbread display like no other. Set in the midst of the lobby-level lighted winter wonderland of ‘Tis the Season, over 2.5 tons and 7.6 million calories of sugary confection awaits visitors this holiday season.
A monumental life-size Santa’s Gingerbread Sweet Shop made entirely of gingerbread and chocolate reaches toward the ceiling of the main lobby rotunda, towering over the chocolate holiday scene set below. Reaching almost as high as the hotel’s iconic blown-glass chandelier, the immense holiday structure is handcrafted from 800 pounds of gingerbread, with each cookie-brick having been applied by hand, one at a time.
The massive building is covered with hand-made sugary confections, with both the exterior and interior fully decorated and furnished. A chocolate Christmas tree covered with fresh fallen sugar snow towers nearby, sugar icicles sparkle in the light and peppermint candy stepping stones lead to the sweet shop door.
The illuminated interior of the sweet shop allows visitors to see inside, where a candy chandelier twinkles over a checkerboard floor made entirely of white and dark chocolate, highlighting shelves stocked with candies of all kinds.
Of course, no holiday event would be complete without a visit from Santa Claus. 1600 Bar+Grille, located in the lobby of the Hilton Americas-Houston and adjacent to the gingerbread house, will again be host to the jolly old elf himself. Children and adults alike can create holiday memories with Breakfast with Santa, Saturday and Sunday mornings through December 22nd. Photos with Santa are always a must, and the perfect Santa spot awaits nearby.
It’s the season for lights, and this year’s ‘Tis the Season lighting display at Hilton Americas-Houston features thousands of lights that twinkle and sparkle, reflecting in the granite and marble mosaic floor like pools of liquid light. Branches covered in lights arch high over the poinsettia-lined walkway through the lobby, leading to a towering 14’ decorated tree — a truly elegant backdrop for the perfect holiday selfie!
An estimated 2,200 man hours and five months of creative work and construction went into the making of this intricately carved and sculpted confectionary creation. This delectable gingerbread and chocolate Christmas vignette, open to the public, is on display in the main lobby rotunda of Hilton Americas-Houston, located at 1600 Lamar Street, through Sunday December 30, when the lacquer-preserved work of art will go into storage awaiting next year’s additions.
Directly connected to the George R. Brown Convention Center, Hilton Americas-Houston contains the city’s largest number of guest rooms, ballrooms, and hotel meeting space. AAA Four Diamond rated hotel boasts 1,200 elegantly appointed guestrooms, restaurants, lobby bars, Starbucks and full service spa and health club.
Hilton Americas
1600 Lamar
Houston, TX 77010
713.739.8000
americashouston.hilton.com