Khon’s
Relaxed, friendly Midtown bar offering excellent Cajun-style boils on the weekends during crawfish season.
Siu Lap City
Long Sing Supermarket’s barbecue counter is reincarnated as a standalone restaurant, offering great Chinese barbecue and a good value to midtown diners.
Nara Express
Inexpensive counter-service restaurant across from the Houston Greyhound station serves delicious, authentic Thai dishes.
Kim Tai
Homey Midtown Houston Vietnamese restaurant delivers some inexpensive, uncommon, and delicious specialties in an atmosphere free of pretension.
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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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Cali Sandwich & Fast Food
This beloved Midtown eatery offers an expansive menu of well-priced bánh mì, bò lúc lắc dac biet, and other Vietnamese favorites.
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Thiên Ân Sandwiches
Thiên Ân Sandwiches offers a large menu of Vietnamese specialties to midtown lunchers. We sample phở, bánh xèo (crepe), and gỏi vịt (duck salad).
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