{"id":150937,"date":"2026-02-04T18:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/150937\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:56:12","slug":"the-full-menu-houston-public-media-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/150937\/","title":{"rendered":"The Full Menu \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-542513 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Full-Menu-Award-Winning-Restaurants-2026-1000x667.jpg\" alt=\"Lamb, eggplant, and grilled naan on a plate\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>A plate of lamb picanha, babaganoush, pickled eggplant, pomegranate, and grilled naan from Belly of the Beast in Spring, whose chef, Thomas Bille, won Best Chef Texas from the James Beard Foundation in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In this month\u2019s installment of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/topics\/fullmenu\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> The Full Menu<\/a>, food writers discuss some of their favorite restaurants that have won or have been nominated for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesbeard.org\/awards\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">James Beard Awards<\/a> recently.<\/p>\n<p>In the audio above, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esandler\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Eric Sandler<\/a> of CultureMap Houston and freelance food writer and editor <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidLeftwich68\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">David Leftwich<\/a> talk with one of this year\u2019s nominees for Best Chef Texas, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chefevelyngarcia.com\/about\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Evelyn Garc\u00eda<\/a>, chef and co-owner of JUN &amp; Kin HTX. Together they share some of the places around the city getting attention from the James Beard Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-542506 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-cocktail-from-Bludorn-with-spice-around-the-rim-of-the-glass-1000x666.jpg\" alt=\"A cocktail from Bludorn with spice around the rim of the glass\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>A cocktail from Bludorn, whose Kristine Nguyen was nominated for a James Beard Award for Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service.<\/p>\n<p>Establishments Mentioned in this Edition:<\/p>\n<p>Angie\u2019s Pizza (coming soon from )<br \/>Buboy (coming soon from )<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/arts-culture\/food\/2025\/06\/17\/524184\/thomas-bille-of-belly-of-the-beast-in-spring-wins-james-beard-award-for-best-texas-chef\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Thomas Bille of Belly of the Beast wins James Beard Award for best Texas chef<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ThomasBille-1-e1750178629701-1000x719.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Bille\" width=\"1000\" height=\"719\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Belly of the Beast Food<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Bille of Belly of the Beast.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plate of lamb picanha, babaganoush, pickled eggplant, pomegranate, and grilled naan from Belly of the Beast in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1174,50350,36591,62661,23016,56,58,4978,57,14118,56582,66,223,354,4979,23017],"class_list":{"0":"post-150937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-arts-culture","9":"tag-david-leftwich","10":"tag-eric-sandler","11":"tag-evelyn-garcia","12":"tag-full-menu","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-headlines","15":"tag-houston-matters","16":"tag-houston-news","17":"tag-houston-restaurants","18":"tag-james-beard-awards","19":"tag-local","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-restaurants","22":"tag-shows","23":"tag-the-full-menu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}