Not only did Garden & Gun highlight both Anvil Bar & Refuge and Under the Volcano in their 50 Best Southern Bars round-up, the glossy lifestyle magazine also had nice things to say about the bust and boom of Houston as a whole. Author Julia Reed says, "Houston is what you might get if you took everything that is really, really great and slightly irritating and crazy in a good way about the South and about America and threw it in one of those rock-polishing tumblers for a spin or two before dumping it all out and leaving everything where it lay." She also mentions Captain Benny's, La Mexicana, Ouisie's Table and RDG as the best in the city's food offerings. [G&G]
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