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Water. I was given the opportunity to write a post about Houston food scene by
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this offer of showing my home Houston’s food Scene. Also note that I was
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notice that I mention Houston in my post. Thanks for reading!
Houston, the 4th
largest city in the US, is also best known for its diverse cultures. You can experience
all kinds of food here whether you are looking for Tex-Mex, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese,
Cajun or a Brazilian steak house, you will find it here. You can also get sizzling
fajitas, biriyani or the best texas style barbeques in this
city. Here is a list of my favorite places that I love to eat as well as get my
favorite ingredients.
1.
Grand Prize Barbeque Restaurant
My hubby is the one who goes out eat in lots restaurant as
part of his meeting with clients, and he gives me an idea of best dining places
in Houston. Houston has great barbeque restaurants,
however Grand Prize Barbeque
Restaurant stands out for its great
taste of the special barbeque sauce.
During a recent visit to this restaurant, my hubby got, barbeque chicken, ribs, potato salad, coleslaw and Jalapeno cheddar bread.
His friend got this Boudin with barbeque chicken, Marconi, beans and jalapeno cheddar bread.
3002 E. Pasadena Frwy.
Pasadena, TX 77502
Phone: 713-473-3355
During a recent visit to this restaurant, my hubby got, barbeque chicken, ribs, potato salad, coleslaw and Jalapeno cheddar bread.
His friend got this Boudin with barbeque chicken, Marconi, beans and jalapeno cheddar bread.
Boudin with barbeque chicken, Marconi, beans and jalapeno cheddar bread. |
Website: Grand Prize Barbeque Restaurant
2.Phoenicia Specialty Foods
I am one of those persons who
only goes out to eat occasionally, but would try all the international cuisines
from the comfort of my kitchen. One of
the stores where I like to shop for lots of my specialty ingredients is Phoenicia
Specialty Foods, a 55,000-square-foot food market for international gourmet
foods. Phoenicia now carries more than 10,000 products from more than 50
countries.Best thing is that you can also get fresh Middle Eastern bread and a wide variety of Middle Eastern food in their deli. I occasionally buy the wonderfully fresh tannour bread from there as well as Tabouli salad. On some days I get to see the breads being made and going up and down the conveyor belt and get packaged, with people standing by to pick it up as soon as it reaches the aile.They have a very nice sweet shop too, and love to get my share of baklava, coconut Namoora/ Basboosah and knafeh from there.
12141 Westheimer Road
Houston, TX 77077
(281) 558-8225
Website: Phoenicia Specialty Foods
When I need any vegetables, fruits and Latin American ingredients my one place stop is Fiesta. I can get fresh mangoes throughout the year (which is not even possible in India). When it is Jackfruit season I get them fresh too. I can get small yellow banana (called apple banana) and plantain both raw and ripe my favorite while growing up I can get it from there.
If you are seafood as well as meat lover you can find there. I can get different flavors of Latin American Coffee from there too. If you are fan of Mexican food, cheese you get it from their deli too. In this store there is also a small restaurant where I can get Mexican food. They even carry spices from several countries of spices and ingredients, but I am a big fan of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Fiesta has more stores in Houston than any other Texas cities.
Fiesta
14315 Bellaire
Houston, TX 77083
(281) 568-4149
Website:
Fiesta Supermarket
If you make good food, you tend to enjoy the food with some good drinks to go along, and since we have two small kids going out to restaurant or bar is not always possible. We like to have small drinks at our home; mainly it will be a glass of wine or a bottle of my favorite beer.
And the job of finding a good wine was made easy with the opening of the Goody Goody liquor store near our house. This is a beautiful store covered with murals depicting the history of beer, wide aisles and an inventory that includes thousands of types of wines, liquor and beer from all over the world.
If you are planning for candlelight dinner, then I think this will be best place to get your favorite drinks.
Goody Goody Liquor
2680 Hwy 6 S, Houston, TX 77082
Website: Goody Goody
5. Food Trucks
If you are street food lover, then Houston has best offer for you.
In Houston the street food are served mainly by food trucks, and they serve
both lunch and dinner. And you can find these trucks all over the city with
some of the food trucks have a large fan following. Some of the popular food trucks are the
Waffle Bus (serving up both sweet and savory bites), Bernie’s Burger Bus
(specializing in all-natural burgers crafted from scratch), and Kurbside Eatz (delivering yummy wings, wraps, tacos and much
more.). Because of the popularity of the food trucks, the City of Houston has
designated couple of places as food park for trucks.
Houston Food Park
1504 St Emanuel St
Houston, TX 77003
My Food Park HTX
800 Highway 6 south
Houston, TX - 77079
Facebook page: My Food
Park HTXSince I cook my own healthy and delicious food from scratch, these are important food scene, I can think off. These are my opinion and post is sponsored, I didn’t receive any compensation from any of the store I mentioned here.
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