Montrose
Les Noo’dle
We sample phở bò and phở chay at this well-liked Montrose Vietnamese counter-service restaurant. Both are outstanding.
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Hillcroft
Shri Balaji Bhavan
Popular casual counter-service eatery on Hillcroft provides fast, inexpensive, and delicious South Indian vegetarian fare.
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Midtown
Kim Tai
Homey Midtown Houston Vietnamese restaurant delivers some inexpensive, uncommon, and delicious specialties in an atmosphere free of pretension.
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Eastwood
La Reynera Panaderia & Taqueria
Neighborhood panaderia offering pan dulce and tacos on house-made flour tortillas. We sample breakfast and lunch tacos and some cookies. Read more “La Reynera Panaderia & Taqueria”
Chinatown
Phở Diện
Billing itself as a Traditional Vietnamese Beef Noodle House, Phở Diện offers a menu almost solely devoted to phở, and specializes in marinated rare steak.
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American
AL Quick Stop
Over-achieving Montrose convenience store offers delicious gyros, falafel, and other Mediterranean specialties, as well as burgers and breakfast tacos.
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Chinese
Spicy Girl
We sample some delicious items from the lunch special menu at Spicy Girl, an upscale-feeling Midtown Sichuan restaurant.
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Gulfton
Tacos La Bala
Gulfton location of a Houston-area chain offers solid tacos, spectacular tortas, and other Mexican specialties.
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Hillcroft
Bombay Sweets
Bombay Sweets offers a popular vegetarian lunch buffet and menu of chaats and snacks, plus a candy counter stocked with delicious Indian sweets.
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Chinatown
Phở Gà Đồng Nai
Located in Houston’s Chinatown, Phở Gà Đồng Nai offers phở gà made with organic, free-range Texas chicken. We sample both regular and khô (dry) varieties.
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