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FOODIE DIARIES DISH SOCIETY Dishing up some good eats

e By Jim Ayres they may be using the patio chairs and

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, MONTROSE enough, and I’m sure they’re much easier STAR readers! I hope you all for the sta to clean and sanitize. had a lling anksgiving and I needed a cocktail, and Dish Society are looking forward to the year-end o ers a Tito’s Cherry Limeade that I just observances. We’ll be staying in and away had to try. All the usual ingredients of from each other, so don’t underestimate the classic cooler were there, along with the value of a phone call to someone you vodka, of course. A little on the sweet side, might not have talked with for a while. the cocktail was nevertheless refreshing

Normally, I’d be sharing a year-end list of my Houston dining favorites. is year has been di erent and so will this column. Restaurants faced long stretches when they were delivery or pickup only, when they were able to operate at all.

Add a couple of foot surgeries to the mix, and I just didn’t eat out very much this year. Oh, I had a lot of deliveries, but that’s no substitute for a shared social experience.

I did nd time recently to stop by Dish Society’s new Heights location. And I loved it so much I went to their San Felipe location for breakfast two days later!

My late lunch was amazing. Dinetables inside for now. ey’re still comfy chips, but I asked my nice hipster server to bring them ahead. ey’re exactly what you’d expect house made chips to be. at’s OK though, because the real side star was a big bowl of deconstructed elote. Deconstructed? Yes, the corn is served o the cob, thank goodness. Otherwise, it’s the street snack we all know and love, sweet from the corn yet rich with crème

in is available, though it appears Dish Society breakfast sandwich

Wednesday December 9, 2020 | MontroseStar.com e | PAGE 11 cheese, and a little spicy thanks to chili lime salt. Dish Society’s deft touch with food certainly extends to its breakfast and brunch o erings. I was thrilled to see that my breakfast sandwich came in the same pretzel roll as my chicken did. If anything, this one was even softer and chewier than the one before. Love it! Dish Society Grilled Chicken Pesto Sandwich side open range egg and Swiss cheese inside. It’s exactly and started my sunny meal in style. right for a hearty breakfast. ere’s also e menu adds a pro tip to the Grilled a side of skillet potatoes, but they’re cut Chicken Pesto Sandwich: order it fried. in such a small dice that they’re hard to I did. Wow, is this one good sandwich! eat. Nothing special. I’m so glad I got Frying not only makes the chicken another bowl of that delicious elote! breasts crispy, but also adds needed Dish Society’s tightly edited menu moisture. Pecan-basil pesto and makes it a Houston original. And if e goat cheese all nestle together inside Heights or e Galleria aren’t convenient chewy pretzel bread. No wonder for you, they’re also open downtown it’s listed as a house favorite. and in Memorial and Katy, with a West e sandwich comes with house made University location coming soon. e

You’ll get local ham, sunny fraîche, garlic aioli and cotija Dish Society elote

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