Martini and Pizza                            

 Friday night we headed out to celebrate the gorgeous weather. First stop was The Wine Bar  on Lake Houston in Kingwood ....or Kings Harbor to the locals.
We didn't sit at the bar because we wanted to sit on the patio overlooking the water. The lake was quiet and the sun was setting. There were a lot of people just relaxing with a glass. The waitstaff are very sociable.   They have a really nice happy hour with $4 limited appetizers and $2 off glasses of wine. It's fun to mix and match wines from the glass menu, especially when you can chat wine-speak with the staff. They also sell wine by the bottle unopened to take home. Interestingly the waiters are also "retailers" and I think get a little commission on the sale.  The manager is charming and adorable- in spite of the fact that last time we were there he promised to create wine "score cards" so we could keep track of what we tried and liked, a la Crue.

Next stop we went into Humble to Zio's. The bar area there is kind of nice and we usually have a good time. There's actually two bar areas to choose from. There's the Pizza Bar with a view looking straight into the pizza oven (fun for the foodies).. And there's the bar, itself.
The bar tonight was completely empty and the bartender, Jordan, was kind of lonely. Zio's isn"t a big cocktail business. Their loss! Jordan makes the most incredible, olive-flavorful dirty martinis you could imagine! He tends bar almost every Friday and Saturday nights so pay him a visit. There we met Brad, who said he taught Bartender-Jordan how to make those ever so dirty martinis. Brad is a chemical engineer who at one time was a dancer at La Bare. Yes, he had pictures to prove it! Brad was with a group of his in-laws (5th marriage) so he was glad to hang with us for a while. he also introduced us to Cody Pogue, who is running for Texas House HD127, Humble/Huffman/Kingwood. Cody seemed pretty normal, actually. Not political or salesman-like. You can check him out at www.codypogue.com to see what he's all about.

Finally, to answer your question: Pizza With A Martini? Yes, YES, YES!. It's like wearing high heels with jeans or cowboy boots with your best suit. I don't have to explain. If you know what I mean then give it a try!