Oink Ink
The three owners of Feast in Houston, Tx.. two British ex-pats and one of their wives, got matching pig tattoos on the occasion of their one year anniversary. The restaurant, highlighted by Frank Bruni in the Times as part of a series on recent restaurant openings the Brunster deems important around the country, is a fierce advocate of nose-to-tail cooking in an unlikely location. While Texans are known to enjoy their meat, they are surely less famous for noshing on pork cheeks, haggis, rabbit’s liver and lamb tongue. They now have the opportunity to enjoy all of the above, and often, says Bruni, on any given night. And the restaurateurs are not out to serve bull testicle for the sake of slapping a testicle on the plate; they make every attempt to justify their being in Houston by sourcing locally — even if the style is far from it.
