If you haven’t looked recently, check out the Real Food Restaurants page for a list of local Houston area restaurants that meet some of the qualifications for a truly Real Food Restaurant.  New listings have been added, mostly based on reader recommendations and information pulled off the internet.  Additional suggestions and your comments about eating at the restaurants are always welcome.  The goal is to find Houston area restaurants that are trying to move toward more healthful practices in food selection and preparation, such as using local produce, organic foods, grassfed beef, etc.  Other qualities to look for in a Real Food Restaurant are serving eggs from local pastured chickens; cooking with healthy, traditional fats, such as lard, butter, and olive oil; and making the dishes from scratch–no highly processed and unhealthy ingredients like msg, soup bases, hydrogenated oils, and hydrolyzed protein.

What else should we be looking for?