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Here Are Your Best Bets for Christmas Eve Dining

B&B Butchers

AFTER LAST-MINUTE shopping, wrapping gifts, mailing cards, and playing Santa, are you feeling too exhausted to cook this holiday weekend? We’ve got delicious dining-out ideas ranging from French cuisine to Thai, Indian, a top-notch Israeli steakhouse, and fare as American as apple (or pecan) pie. Anything goes in H-Town!

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These Six Bakeries Will Tempt You with Sensational Holiday Sweets

Cookies at Pondicheri Bake Lab

IF THERE’S ONE thing you know to have on hand through New Year’s Eve (after that, the diet starts), it is sweet treats. And if the desserts sport a holiday theme, the more the merrier. Here are a handful of our favorite spots to pick up guaranteed joy in a box. Plum cake, persimmon, pies — oh my!

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Here’s How to Have a Speakeasy-Style NYE at Houston’s ‘Number-One’ Hotel. But First — Holly Jolly Cocktails!

Menage a Trois cocktail

ENTER THE CODE on the hidden door disguised as a bookshelf and give it a hard shove. Then wind through the bustling kitchen and enter another door, which opens to a softly lit hideaway. You’ve arrived at Bandista, the cool little speakeasy upstairs at the Four Seasons Hotel Houston.

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