Heights
Asia Market Thai Lao Food
Heights Thai/Lao restaurant and grocer offers popular Thai curries alongside rarer dishes like yentafo.
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Barbecue
Pennie’s Tex Mex Take Out
Galveston take-out joint is a stealth barbecue destination, offering delicious smoked meats alongside tamales and barbacoa.
Turkish
Simit & Poacha
West Houston Turkish bakery offers crusty, bagel-like simits and other sweet and savory pastries like poachas and achmas.
Lao
Banh Somtum
A strip-mall restaurant on the north side of Houston serves up flavor-packed Thai and Lao specialties, including boat noodles and larb.
Barbecue
Feges BBQ
Feges BBQ in Greenway Plaza dishes up delicious smoky meats (including whole hog) and diverse sides to office-casual lunch crowds.
Chinatown
Spicy Hunan
Popular Hunanese restaurant in Houston’s Dun Huang Plaza offers intriguing specialties such as steamed fish head.
Mexican
Cielito Cafe
New Montrose-area Mexican café offers meticulously crafted, Instagram-able, and delicious breakfast and lunch plates.
Korean
The ToreOre
Supermarket food hall is home to some of Houston’s hottest Korean fried chicken.
Chinese
Pepper Twins
Houston Sichuan mainstay, now serving $9.99 lunch combo specials at its Montrose location, plus crawfish (in season).
Cajun
Khon’s
Relaxed, friendly Midtown bar offering excellent Cajun-style boils on the weekends during crawfish season.