Shelby's Social Diary

Rubber duckies rule as young professionals cowboy up at a hot restaurant

By Shelby Hodge

05.23.13 | 11:02 am

Call it a good neighbor program, Hotel Icon's alliance with the Buffalo Bayou Partnership that involves the hotel's signature cowboy rubber ducky. Those cute little fellows were front and c ...

Hotel Icon and Buffalo Bayou Partnership Community Open House

Hotel Icon

05.15.13

This community open house lunch-and-learn event kicks off a new fundraising and awareness campaign highlighting the Buffalo Bayou Partnership and related amenities. Attendees will have the oppo

Shelby About Town

Major celebs enjoy secret All-Star meals: Jay-Z, LeBron James & Johnny Manziel dodge photogs at top restaurants

By Shelby Hodge

02.19.13 | 2:37 pm

Thanks to the NBA All-Star Game, H-town was crawling with celebs over the weekend and you've read about all the parties. But where did the big names go to chow down when the photographers and t ...

A Visit from Saint Nicholas

A tasty international feast brings in record dollars for Volunteer Houston, helps at-risk kids

By Joel Luks

12.01.12 | 5:58 pm

The tenor of the gift giving season spread over Hotel Icon for Volunteer Houston's "Taste-ful: An Evening to Celebrate 25 Years of Saint Nicholas" on Thursday night. But not with gaud ...

CultureMap Bottoms Up Video

Drink and confess: A bartender's sacred secrets revealed at Hotel Icon's Line & Lariat

By Marcy de Luna

09.03.12 | 12:15 pm

Bar patrons sometimes relieve stress by telling their troubles to the bartender. It's happy hour and confession rolled into one. In the case of Houston Farris at L&L Bar in th ...

Hometown Glory

The most interesting room service in the world? Houston hotel's wild boar meatballs wow national mag

By Sarah Rufca

05.23.12 | 11:15 am

"Unexpected room service" has an unpleasant connotation to me, like something Dominique Strauss-Kahn would be into. Fortunately the editors of Condé Nast Traveler made their online ...

Ring in the New Year

Party like the Mayans: CultureMap's round-up of the best New Year's Eve happenings in Houston

By Caroline Gallay, Marcy de Luna

12.27.11 | 5:52 pm

If the Mayans are right, it might well be your last New Year's Eve ever, so you might as well make it a good one. Here's where we'd be if we could be everywhere at once: MKT Bar &md ...

Raising funds for Lucky Dog

Foodies and families help Fido at Hotel Icon's gingerbread house competition

By Sarah Rufca

12.11.11 | 2:30 pm

When Houston's favorite pastry chefs create adorable gingerbread dog houses, the dogs aren't the only lucky ones. ...

Fourth Annual Christmas Tail "You Lucky Dog"

Hotel Icon

12.05.11

Enjoy a showcase and auction of beautiful and edible gingerbread doghouses created by some of the city's most talented chefs. Proceeds benefit Lucky Dog Rescue. 

Foodie News

Going Texan: Magic Johnson's Hotel Icon debuts Line & Lariat restaurant

By Sarah Rufca

10.23.11 | 5:30 pm

The news that downtown Houston's Hotel Icon would be the first Texas property to join Marriott's luxury Autograph Collection brand hit the wires earlier this month, but the hotel threw a pa ...