ON THE SCENE
Forget the Calories
The Houston Polo Club was packed with 1,200 partygoers for the sixth annual Polo Espanol and International Paella Festival benefiting the Mercy Foundation of Texas.
Article appeared: Dining Guide - Houston Chronicl
BEYOND TEX-MEX
Explore the Regional Cuisines of Mexico without Ever Leaving Houston
Most Texans have memorized the ubiquitous Tex-Mex menu by now, starting with crispy tacos, cheese enchiladas and chili con carne…
Article appeared: Dining Guide - Houston Chronicle
SHARP SHOOTERS
Potent Concoctions Pack Plenty of Firepower
They have names like Beam Me Up Scott, Sex on the Beach, Stiletto, Purple Hooters, Woo Woo, Orange Crush, B-52 and Mexican Flag. No, these aren’t B-movie titles. They’re the potent concoctions called shooters…
Article appeared: Dining Guide - Houston Chronicle
THE 10 BEST MARGARITAS
On-the-rocks Creation from Las Alamedas
For both a strong and tasty Margarita, try either the frozen or on-the-rocks concoctions. Neither has an overhearing lime flavor dominant in so many Margaritas…
Article appeared: Weekend – The Houston Post
LAS ALAMEDAS
A Taste of Class
The kind of food found in the finer restaurants of Mexico City and Acapulco is scarce in Houston, paradise for the afficionados of Tex-Mex…
Article appeared: Restaurant Spotlight – Houston Chronicle
HOUSTONGULFCOAST
Guide to Unique Cafes & Restaurants
Las Alamedas is a casual Mexican Hacienda-styled structure which was an instant hit the minute it opened it twelve-foot-high doors. The comfortable multi-level building seats both lunch and dinner…
Article appeared: Texas Good Eats
PLACIDO DOMINGO SINGS AT PARTY
Guests Thrilled with Opera Star’s After-Hours’ Treat
Barbara Van Postman Amberson and her oilman husband Joe tossed a party at Las Alamedas for Placido Domingo after the Met Operate star’s concert with the Houston Grande Opera…
Article appeared: Houston Chronicle
TRADE SECRETS
Tips and Recipes from Erasto Ceja
Shortly after the stately Las Alamedas Restaurant opened four years ago, chef and lyric composer Erasto Ceja was in his kitchen singing a sad song. It was one he had written…
Article appeared: The Houston Post
THE 25 BEST RESTAURANTS IN HOUSTON
Set in a replica of a nineteenth-century high-ceilinged hacienda, complete with architectural antiques and a restful bayou view, Las Alamedas is the best of the Anglicized, highbrow Mexican restaurants in Houston…
Article appeared: Houston City Magazine
SUPERB MEXICAN CUISINE OFFERED
Las Alamedas Restaurant Reflects the Cuisine and Customs of 19 th
Century Noble families
Superb Mexican cuisine can now be tasted without crossing the border. Situated on a bayou off Katy Freeway at Voss…
Article appeared: Houston Chronicle
DRINKIN, DININ, AND DANCIN
Houston has some of the best restaurants in the known world. Las Alamedas at 8615 Katy Freeway is certain to be in the top ten…
Article appeared: Texas Country
LAS ALAMEDAS RESTAURANT SERVES FINEST MEXICAN CUISINE
There’s a beautiful center courtyard where guests may dine on their favorite cocktails. There’s a Happy Hour with two for one drinks, and complimentary hors’d’oeuvre…
Article appeared: Houston Chronicle
LAS ALAMEDAS
Mexican Grandeur off a Busy Freeway
As difficult for me to imagine as the building of the pyramids is how Las Alamedas owner, Jorge Sneider, managed to transport innumerable building materials, antiques, and even pillars from Michoacan…
Article appeared: Restaurant Spotlight – TravelHost
END OF THE LINE
For free food buffet?
Many happy-hour tables once fat with fancy, free buffets have trimmed down to leaner, simpler offerings…
Article appeared: Houston Chronicle
HE SINGS FOR YOR SUPPER
Los Alamedas Chef Serves Musical Side Dish
Jorge Sneider isn’t worried about losing his executive chef to the competition. But the owner of Los Alamedas, a well-known gourmet Mexican restaurant knows Chef Erasto Ceja could find another easily…
Article appeared: Houston Chronicle
A RESTAURANT REVIEW
Las Alamedas has Ambience
In Houston, Mexican food and ambience are almost mutually exclusive terms. Most Houstonians desire high-quality Mexican food at low prices…
Article appeared: Houston Chronicle
A PATRON WOULD HAVE FELT AT HOME
Las Alamedas is owned and operated by the Sneider family. Born and raised in Mexico City, they designed their restaurant to look like a 19 th-centry Mexican hacienda owned by a major patron…
Article appeared: The Houston Post
