Hubbell & Hudson

We went to Houston for Labor Day to celebrate Daniel's birthday and my sister's birthday. While we were there I wanted to find something to do that was different and sounded like fun for the whole family. I discovered a magical place called Hubbell & Hudson during my google searches.

I first came across Hubbell & Hudson as a place to eat, but it is really so much more. It is like the best fresh ingredient market ever combined with tons of prepared food combined with a bistro combined with a cooking school. This place is my Disneyworld. I love to go grocery shopping and by that I mean at a real grocery store not our town's local United. This place had everything you could ever want to cook with PLUS you can drink while you shop! Say what? I'm not joking.

Some of the organic selections

Pre-made baking mixes

The bakery

As I mentioned, they offer a cooking school and it's sponsored by Viking so you get to use all of Viking's fancy top-of-the-line equipment. They have tons of different classes you can choose from like Southern Cooking, Italian Pasta Party and Japanese Steakhouse. They also do seasonal classes like Oktoberfest and Around the World Cookie Exchange. They are constantly adding new classes and there is really something for everyone.

The class that was being done the weekend we were there was Date Night: In the City. All the recipes we learned were adapted from different New York City restaurants. At first just Daniel and I were going to attend, but then I decided that it could be fun for all of us. We all like to cook and eat so it was kismet. The three best things about the class were that all the ingredients were already measured out, you didn't have to clean up anything and at the end you got to eat everything you cooked. It was all the positives about cooking with none of the negatives.

There is a head chef that walks you through all of the recipes and helps if you get stuck. They also feed you booze, which is nice. Everything was pretty easy to prepare and tasted amazing. I'm not lying when I say that the crab cakes we made were the best I've ever had. Plus, you get all the recipes for the things you've made so you can make them at home. Everyone had so much fun and we are all ready to go back and take another class!

The Menu
Salad greens with homemade vinaigrette
Crab cakes with ancho chili sauce
Grilled veal chops with a mushroom garlic pan sauce
Double chocolate cherry cookies with gelato

Daniel ready to start the class

The cooking school

Ready to get started

Some of the ingredients

Learning how to use a double broiler to melt chocolate

Daniel took the lead on the cookies

Grilling the veal chops

Time to eat

The salad with a homemade vinaigrette

Best crab cakes ever

We didn't take any pictures of the main course because we were too busy eating. If you are ever in The Woodlands area, you should definitely sign up for a class. I can't wait to go back!