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Empire
Turkish Grill
By TED POWERS-Jewish Herald Voice
07 /18/2003
Habit-forming:
Empire Turkish Grill is cause for celebration
By ALISON COOK-Houston Chronicle
10/04/2002
Best Dishes make lasting impressions
By ALISON COOK - Houston Chronicle - 02.11.2003
Who among us is strong enough to resist that end-of-the-year impulse to take stock, to sum up, to chronicle the highs and lows of the planetary cycle? Not me.
Trying to pick out the very best dishes from my 2002 Houston restaurant odyssey, I made a simple rule: no looking back at my notes or my archived columns. If I didn't remember a dish vividly off the top of my head, it didn't make the cut.
Here - in free-associative order that conveys nothing but the workings of an overstimulated brain - are my favorites...
.... Labni at the Empire Turkish Grill, 12448 Memorial, a newcomer as prim and polite as any Southern tearoom. The intense yogurt-cheese dip has a wonderfully tart edge, and the addition of walnuts and dill gives it style and substance. Fresh-baked Turkish bread makes a worthy vehicle.