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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
2002's Best New Restaurants
My Table Houston's Dining Magazine
Perhaps in subconscious defiance of the tattered economy and pervading sense of pessimism weave been living with for the past 14 months, Houston diners were gifted with some of the finest new restaurants in years. We wouldn’t call any of them conceptually daring (except perhaps Hugo’s), but the dozen listed below all are remarkable for several reasons, not the least being food. We traditionally single out the previous year’s best new restaurants in our February-March issue; this year, we also recall a dozen entities that foodies will miss most.
EMPIRE TURKISH GRILL , 12448 Memorial Dr. at Lantern Lane, 713-827-7475. It’s not decked out in the tent-draped, cushion-scattered kind of way that we were expected (given its previous incarnation as the Lantern Inn). Rather, Empire is a tidy, prim little spot where you’ll find Turkish-style pizza, kebabs of all kinds, salads, the yogurt cheese dip called labni, sweet desserts and gritty coffee. Like Alexander (above), the hands-on owner, Kamil Ramazanoglu makes all the difference. $
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