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The Houston Chronicle's 2023 Top 100 Restaurants list will be unveiled tomorrow night at our Houston Culinary Stars party.

The list is a project that has been a year in the making, involving a team of veterans who researched, dined, wrote, edited, photographed and produced their hearts out because they care deeply about trustworthy, fair and ethical restaurant criticism. This reader-service effort was costly in both time and resource arenas. We do not take our cues or ideas from other outlets, or feature restaurants we've never visited.

So if you'd like us to continue the work we do for a long time, do check HoustonChronicle.com around 6 p.m. on Thursday.

Jody Schmal, Food Editor

jody.schmal@houstonchronicle.com

Guests dining at Hamsa located in Rice Village.

Photo by: Kirsten Gilliam

Houston restaurants grapple with how to respond to Israel-Hamas war

The Hamas attacks pose a challenge for some local restaurants: Is it OK to voice support for Israel, or Palestine, or is too political for customers?

Local eats

Christian's Tailgate's four locations are a good place to watch the game while enjoying a menu of hot dogs, burgers, wings, and nachos. For the playoffs, the bar and grill is offering special drinks including Orbit's Peach 75 (gin, lemon, peach puree, champagne for $10) and The Orbit Shot (chilled peach vodka with a splash of lemon soda and blue sugar rim for $5).

Photo by: Becca Wright

Houston's top restaurants

Tiger cry ribeye with a side of funky som tam lao at Street to Kitchen.

Photo by: Annie Mulligan, Contributor

Houston Chronicle's top 100 Restaurants, according to our food critics

Houston's dining scene is exceptional. We feature the very best our city has to offer in this list.

Aprons on

Bengali eggplant curry by Anita Jaisinghani

Photo by: Carolina Ayala, Contributor

This recipe for Bengali curry uses Houston-grown eggplant

Eggplants grown by a farmer from Congo in a curry made with poppy seeds native to Bengal, India, comes together here in Houston, Texas.

Enchilada Queen Sylvia Caseres' cheese enchiladas with chili gravy are among nearly two dozen enchiladas available at Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen.

Photo by: Paula Murphy

42 iconic Houston recipes you can make at home

To celebrate Houston's favorite foods, we compiled a cookbook of dishes and drinks from the city's favorite chefs and restaurants.

Barbecue

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City Market in Luling is a window into Texas barbecue history

Opened in 1958, the famed smokehouse remains one of the last vestiges of traditional meat market-style barbecue in Texas.

25 best places to get barbecue in the Houston area: The Greater Houston area is enjoying a new era of smoked meat supremacy, making it, perhaps, the new capital of Texas barbecue. Here are some of the shining stars.