Parking lot of Chef Monica Pope's restaurant, T'afia. Open in the summertime. Chef Pope has done great things for local suppliers in Texas...similar to the Alice Waters' Chez Panisse model. High quality foodstuffs, prepared with respect. Made the Bon Appetit magazine list of "50 hot restaurants" or something like that in the April 05 issue.

I hear there is an artisan market in Market Square, DT HOU, North of the new Calpine building (717 Texas), but I've never been there.

I was also reading in the HOU Chronicle that there is a meat market that sells live animals and butchers on site...an antidote for cello-wrapped McFood..also if you're halal or kosher..I'll try to scrounge the cite if anyone is interested. Probably a good source for making your own boudin noir....