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Eater
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Eater
Where to Eat Filipino Food in Houston, From Halo-Halo to Lechon
Skip to main content Current eater city: Houston Marcy de Luna is a Houston-based food journalist with more than a decade of experience covering dining trends, restaurant culture, and the hospitality industry. Houston's diverse culinary landscape continues to reflect its multicultural roots, and its Filipino food scene has a well-earned moment in the spotlight. Whether you're craving sizzling sisig, rich kare-kare, or the nostalgic desserts like ube cake and leche flan, Houston offers several spots serving authentic and modern interpretations of Filipino comfort food. From family-run cafes tucked into supermarkets to immersive supper clubs serving multi-course tastings inspired by the Philippines' rich history, each establishment celebrates the bold, tangy, sweet, and savory flavors that define Filipino cuisine. Here's where to find some of Houston's best Filipino restaurants, bakeries, and food stalls. Marcy de Luna is a Houston-based food journalist with more than a decade of experience covering dining trends, restaurant culture, and the hospitality industry. Houston's diverse culinary landscape continues to reflect its multicultural roots, and its Filipino food scene has a well-earned moment in the spotlight. Whether you're craving sizzling sisig, rich kare-kare, or the nostalgic desserts like ube cake and leche flan, Houston offers several spots serving authentic and modern interpretations of Filipino comfort food. From family-run cafes tucked into supermarkets to immersive supper clubs serving multi-course tastings inspired by the Philippines' rich history, each establishment celebrates the bold, tangy, sweet, and savory flavors that define Filipino cuisine. Here's where to find some of Houston's best Filipino restaurants, bakeries, and food stalls. Held at Kitchen Studio Downtown, this casual Filipino-inspired supper club features a five-course tasting menu that explores Filipino cuisine from an elevated perspective. Highlights include oyster kinilaw, quail dinuguan, and octopus kare-kare. Each course is paired with complimentary beverages, such as a lychee-based palate cleanser, curated red and white wines, and non-alcoholic sips made with calamansi and guava or mango. Reservations are required, so be sure to book ahead. Launched initially as a food truck in 2012, this relaxed Filipino American burger joint offers a mix of street food and comfort fare. Try the chicken pupu plate, featuring garlic rice and soy-glazed chicken, siopao steamed buns filled with a choice of pork or chicken, or go big with the wagyu beef patty-stacked Amboy Burger, topped with bacon, cheddar, lettuce, tomato, onion, butter pickles, and a homemade mayonnaise. One of Houston's best-kept Filipino secrets is tucked inside an H-E-B on Bellaire Boulevard. This family-owned restaurant offers diners a variety of options. Think silog-style plates like tocilog with tocino (sweet fried pork), itlog (fried eggs), and sinangag (garlic fried rice), plus crispy chicken wings and platters of fried fish or a fried half-chicken served with diner's choice of rice or fries. Take your fare to go or settle in at a table on-site and dig in. Beyond just a bakery, Godo's serves classic savory dishes like pancit palabok and grilled pompano alongside a variety of traditional Filipino sweets. At this casual spot, located near the Texas Medical Center, the kakanin (sticky rice cakes) are especially popular. The soft, fluffy mamon sponge cakes make for an ideal afternoon merienda, or snack. With a location off Houston's Main Street not far from Filipino fried chicken joint Jollibee, and another adjacent to the Seafood City complex in Sugar Land, Baker's Son is a dessert haven for anyone with a sweet tooth. Diners will also find plenty of ube treats, including purple-hued ube cheese rolls and ube coffee cake topped with cream cheese. Be sure to try the custard egg pie, a sweet Filipino dessert reminiscent of egg custard, or the puto flan, a rice cake muffin that combines leche flan and puto into one delightful dessert. This casual buffet-style restaurant is ideal for those who want to sample various dishes in one sitting. Make your way through a generous selection of Filipino staples, including crispy lechon, flavorful kare-kare, and fried lumpia. Save room for the sticky-sweet biko and chewy pichi-pichi for dessert, and sip refreshing drinks like kalamansi citrus juice and sago't gulaman made with sago or tapioca pearls, agar-agar jelly, and a brown sugar syrup. 9671 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX 77036 (713) 272-8888 (713) 272-8888 Visit Website Though this is definitely a supermarket, Seafood City offers some of the best Filipino cuisine in the state. Shoppers are almost immediately greeted by its bustling food court, which features Halo Halo's assortment of fruity drinks, shakes, and juices; rice bowls and Filipino bolognese from Sizzle; a self-service station with hot foods, including slices served from a whole roasted pig; and the ever-popular Grill City, which serves a seemingly endless selection of grilled proteins, including whole squid, fish, skewered and barbecued meats, and chicharones fried fresh. If it's your first time, give the food court and Seafood City's many aisles a once-over to explore a storeful of options before committing to one. Finish the trip by stopping into the Baker's Son on the way out. This Sugar Land outpost of this Florida-founded Filipino bakery is filled with some of the most indulgent treats, with a special focus on ube. You'll find shelves and shelves of goodies, including ube cheese rolls, pan de ube, and trays of ube coffee cake iced with cream cheese frosting. 15237 North Southwest Freeway, Sugar Land, Texas 77478 Visit Website
Business Journals
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Journals
Cotton Holdings Chairman Pete Bell lists River Oaks mansion for $6.2 million (PHOTOS)
Expand Pete Bell, the founder, co-CEO and chairman of Houston-based disaster relief and infrastructure support company Cotton Holdings, has put his River Oaks mansion on the market after owning it for just two years. Laurie Perez 1 of 11
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Science
- Yahoo
4 Astronauts Dock at International Space Station After Historic Texas-Based Launch
A team of private astronauts from around the globe successfully arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) early Thursday morning. The arrival of the four astronauts capped a landmark launch by Houston-based Axiom Space in partnership with Elon Musk's SpaceX. 'Docking confirmed!' SpaceX posted in an accompanying video on the early morning hours on Thursday. The Axiom Mission 4 crew launched on a brand-new SpaceX Dragon capsule, dubbed 'Grace,' from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. After a 28-hour spaceflight, the ship docked at the ISS Thursday morning, connecting to one of the station's primary ports. Led by veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson, the Ax-4 crew includes Shubhanshu Shukla of India, Slawosz Uznanski of Poland, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary — each the first astronaut from their respective countries to reach the ISS. 'Our Ax-4 crewmates made it safely aboard the @Space_Station today! It was a pleasure and an honor to monitor their approach and work the hatch opening. I also got a couple good photos as they caught up and approached from below the station! Welcome Peggy, Shux, Suave, and Tibor!,' wrote Astronaut Nichole 'Vapor' Ayers. Leaders from each country have celebrated the milestone, made possible through the backing of Musk's SpaceX and Axiom's framework. Whitson, now director of human spaceflight at Axiom, holds the U.S. record for most cumulative days in space — currently 675 — and is expected to approach 700 by the end of the mission. The recent flight is just another landmark in Texas' growing dominance in the commercial space race, especially as Musk chose to move SpaceX headquarters to the Lone Star State last year, as previously reported by The Dallas Express. From Axiom's Houston headquarters to SpaceX's launch site in Boca Chica, Texas is becoming a central hub for the expanding 'off-Earth' economy. Thursday's docking marks Axiom's fourth private crewed mission to the ISS since 2022 and its most ambitious yet: the Ax-4 team is scheduled to complete more than 60 science experiments during their 14-day stay — more than any previous Axiom crew. The mission also represents a major step forward in international space research and cooperation. ShShukla, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, spoke emotionally during the welcome ceremony, expressing excitement to work with researchers from around the world. Though the astronauts hail from across the globe, the mission itself was designed, built, and launched from American — specifically Texan — soil. Axiom Space's long-term goal is to build the first private space station in Earth orbit — a key part of NASA's transition plan as the ISS nears retirement in 2030. The company envisions the station as a hub for microgravity research, manufacturing, and international astronaut training.
Time of India
4 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
TotalEnergies buys 25% stake in offshore Suriname from Moeve
TotalEnergies has acquired a 25 per cent stake in Block 53 offshore Suriname from Spanish company Moeve , it said on Friday without giving financial details. The block is adjacent to the $10.5 billion Gran Morgu development , on which Total took a final investment decision in October and which is estimated to hold more than 700 million barrels of recoverable resources . The South American country has yet to produce hydrocarbons, but has ambitions to emulate neighbouring Guyana, where a consortium led by Exxon Mobil has discovered more than 11 billion barrels of recoverable oil and gas. Total said Block 53 contains an oil and gas discovery drilled near the border of Gran Morgu, and will allow for project expansion. Spain's second largest oil company Moeve, formerly known as CEPSA , has sold 70 per cent of its oil production assets since 2022 as part of an 8-billion-euro $9.4 billion) plan to pivot toward low carbon businesses. Houston-based APA, which operates Block 53, holds a 45 per cent stake, while Petronas owns 30 per cent.
Time Magazine
5 days ago
- Business
- Time Magazine
TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025: Fervo Energy
'It's very clear we need a lot of electricity, and we need it now,' says Fervo Energy CEO and cofounder Tim Latimer, citing the rise of AI, data centers, and electric vehicles. Fervo plans to help meet rising demand by combining fracking and geothermal technologies. Its geothermal systems pump water deep into the earth to generate 24/7 renewable electricity, unlike intermittent wind turbines and solar arrays. The Houston-based startup's innovative technology drills not only vertically but horizontally, too, so it can access more heat. Founded eight years ago, Fervo partnered with Google on a 3.5-megawatt commercial project in Nevada, which opened in 2023—'the first time anyone ever proved that enhanced geothermal systems are commercially ready today,' Latimer says. Now Fervo is building the 500-MW Cape Station project in Utah, which will provide power to utility Southern California Edison as part of the world's largest-ever geothermal power purchasing agreement.
