Houston’s Inner Loop encompasses approximately 100 square miles located directly around the City center. Most people will agree that it is within this area that Houston feels metropolitan. Uptown (the Galleria Area) aside, the Inner Loop has two large financial centers, boutique shopping, the best restaurants in the City, a pretty healthy night life, and more farmers markets than one could care to, as my grandpa would say, “shake a stick at.”

Bayou City Farmer's Market

Every now and again, the stars align and you get a call from let’s say, your mom with news of a sale on Kobe-style beef. See, my mom gets me. She might not understand all of my nutty obsessions or what fuels them, but she does know to drop me a line when something is just too good to pass up.

Air-dried Skirt Steak