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    Season's Eatings

    Savor these treats and eats at the CultureMap Holiday Pop-up Shop

    Stephanie Allmon Merry
    Nov 24, 2017 | 11:00 am

    The CultureMap Holiday Pop-up Shop returns December 3 to Silver Street Studios, featuring the best gifts offered by our favorite local retailers and brands. But you didn’t think it would be all jewelry, home decor, and stocking stuffers, did you?

    There have to be treats and eats to devour onsite and to take away for someone else to savor.

    If there is one time of year to splurge, it’s the holidays. We're giving you a sample of the tasty food and beverages that will be available at this holiday shopping excursion.

    Gifts
    Briggs TRUE. Evolving from a longtime hobby, the Briggs TRUE brand officially launched in 2014, now making their gourmet Texas sauces and seasonings available to the legion of “foodie fans” the brand has earned over the years. With an award-winning lineup of gourmet and fiery food products, Briggs TRUE uses superior natural ingredients.

    Texas Beer Bus. A Texas Beer Bus Tour is a guided tour of three local breweries/wineries/distilleries, including VIP guided tours, transportation on the Booze Bus, tastings at each stop, snacks, and commemorative souvenir glasses. With multiple tour options available every Saturday, it'll be tough to choose just one.

    Nothing Bundt Cakes. The goal at Nothing Bundt Cakes is to create a cake that not only reminds you of home, but also opens you to a new world. The hand-crafted recipes are more than up to the task — each recipe only uses the purest ingredients; all to bring you bundt cake perfection.

    Mad Hectic Foods. Mad Hectic Foods makes all-natural protein oatmeal mixes for people with “Mad Hectic” lives. Easy to prepare by just adding hot water, these delicious mixes contain organic and all-natural ingredients and never any artificial flavors or sweeteners. Made locally right here in Houston.

    Savor while you shop
    The festive extravaganza also will include noshes and sips from some of the event partners. There will be customized cocktails made with Ketel One vodka, Jack Daniel's Gentleman Jack whiskey, and Korbel champagne along with wine from Delicato Vinyards.

    While you're there, you'll also get to enjoy tunes spun by local DJ Bizone, pictures with Santa, a men's onsite barber shop, and much more.

    Reserve your spot now for the CultureMap Holiday Pop-up Shop, presented by Infiniti, which lasts from 11 am-4 pm on Sunday, December 3. Then learn more about the participating retailers, sponsors, and beneficiary Toys for Tots.

    The goal at Nothing Bundt Cakes is to create a cake that not only reminds you of home, but also opens you to a new world.

    Nothing Bundt Cakes
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    The goal at Nothing Bundt Cakes is to create a cake that not only reminds you of home, but also opens you to a new world.
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    when I dip, you dip

    Heights restaurant's new lunch service will only offer 1 sandwich

    Eric Sandler
    May 22, 2026 | 3:30 pm
    La Lucha french dip sandwich
    Courtesy of La Lucha
    La Lucha will begin serving French dips on Friday, June 12.

    If a sandwich hall of fame existed, one of its plaques would surely be devoted to the French dip. Its combination of thinly-sliced beef, tangy horseradish sauce, and a savory au jus is a winning formula.

    Beginning Friday, June 12, Heights restaurant La Lucha will be showcasing two takes on the venerable sandwich when it starts serving them for its new Friday-only lunch service, which will be held from 11 am-2 pm. To be clear, the two sandwiches (plus fries) will be the only menu items available at lunch — apologies to anyone hoping to ease into the weekend with La Lucha staples like fried chicken or the pharmacy burger.

    The two sandwich choices are: a West Coast style French dip that’s just shaved meat and au jus or an East Coast style that adds provolone and caramelized onions. Both are served with horseradish aioli on bread from Houston’s Royal Bakery that “gets crispy and delicious,” according to executive chef Bobby Matos.

    The meat is the same prime rib that newly opened steak joint Star Rover, La Lucha’s sister restaurant, serves as part of its viral, “I ate the 76’er” eating challenge. Priced at $26, the sandwich offers a healthy seven ounces of thinly-sliced beef.

    “They’ve done this at Little Sparrow in Atlanta but for late night. It’s been a huge success and people are digging it,” Matos explains about the motivation to introduce the offering.

    Limiting the menu to two variations of the same sandwich, fries, and beverages — both alcoholic and non-alcoholic — allows La Lucha to offer its Friday lunch service more easily than if Matos had to staff the kitchen to parepare its full menu.

    “It’s just bringing more people to the Heights and giving them a chance to get to know our restaurants,” Matos adds. “There are still people who don’t know about La Lucha, and it’s been eight years.”

    Although Matos moved to Texas from California, he says he prefers the East Coast French dip. “I want cheese and onions on mine. I like cheese on French dips,” he says.

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