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    Burgers in the 'Desert'

    Acclaimed Houston-area barbecue spot set to spin off a new burger joint

    Eric Sandler
    May 30, 2019 | 9:27 am
    Tejas Chocolate & Barbecue smoked cheeseburger
    The Smokehouse Burger will have a dedicated home.
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    By any measure, the Smokehouse Burger at Tejas Chocolate & Barbecue has been a hit. Even though it’s only been available for seven weeks as a Wednesday-only special, it’s become one of the Tomball barbecue joint’s most popular dishes.

     

    “It was always traditionally our slowest day of the week,” co-owner Scott Moore, Jr tells CultureMap. “Now Wednesday is our busiest day of the week other than Saturday.”

     

    The burger’s success prompted Moore and his business partners, his wife Michelle Holland and his brother Greg Moore, to contemplate not just making the dish a permanent menu item but spinning it off into a dedicated restaurant. When Moore found a shuttered restaurant space on Main Street in Tomball that happened to share a landlord with Tejas Chocolate, he and his partners quickly decided to pull the trigger.

     

    “It all happened suddenly,” Moore says. “[This week] will be our seventh week to make burgers. Six weeks in we decided, hey, let’s open a burger joint.”

     

    They struck a deal. Tejas Burger Joint will open at 214 W. Main St. If all goes well, the new restaurant will open by the end of the summer.

     

    “The permitting for the city is all done. It’s a fairly easy way to go into a second-gen building and start a burger joint,” Moore says.

     

    Moore says that he, his brother, and Tejas Chocolate general manager Dan Davidson will develop the menu. Currently, their plans are to make the Smokehouse Burger just one of the offerings, alongside an expanded menu of traditional burgers, fries, and shakes (both regular and boozy).

     

    Expect a hefty, half-pound burger that’s cooked on a griddle. In a nod to the ethos that helped Tejas earn sixth place on Texas Monthly’s prestigious list of the state’s top 50 barbecue joints, the restaurant will cure its own bacon and utilize a custom Prime brisket patty with a luscious 65/35 meat-to-fat ratio.

     

    Count Houston Chronicle barbecue columnist J.C. Reid as a fan. In a recent article, he described the Smokehouse Burger as “a delicious shock-and-awe flood of flavor and texture on the taste buds.”

     

    “We feel like part of the enthusiasm was the quality of the burger we’re making is really good,” Moore says. "Somebody said to me, in Tomball, they live in a burger desert."

     

    In other words, the right restaurant will be something of an oasis for burger hounds in Tomball and beyond. Judging by the enthusiasm for its first efforts, Tejas Burger Joint may earn just as much attention as its big brother.

     
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    LRW 2025

    Two week dining event celebrates Houston's Latin-owned restaurants

    Eric Sandler
    Jul 14, 2025 | 6:00 am
    The Lymbar interior
    Photo by Dylan McEwan
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    A two-week celebration of Latin food and culture has begun in Houston. Latin Restaurant Weeks has returned for its seventh year.

    Held from Friday, July 11 until July 25, Latin Restaurant Weeks has more than 40 participants that showcase the diversity of Latin American cuisine. It includes everything from all four of James Beard Award winner Hugo Ortega’s restaurants — Mexican staple Hugo’s, seafood restaurant Caracol, Oaxacan restaurant Xochi, and street food favorite Urbe — as well as Brazilian steakhouses, casual taquerias, and bakeries.

    Unlike Houston Restaurant Weeks where restaurant serve prix fixe menus at set prices, each participating restaurant in Late Restaurant Weeks determines its own offer. For example, at The Lymbar, David Cordua’s Latin-Mediterranean fusion restaurant in Midtown, diners have the option of a two-course, $25 lunch or a three-course, $39 dinner. Next door at Late August, chef Chris Williams and Sergio Hidalgo’s Michelin-recommended restaurant, the options consist of a two-course lunch and a three-course dinner (pricing information wasn’t available at press time). In contrast, Urbe’s sole offering is a three crispy pork belly taco plate for $17.

    Those looking for more of a bar experience should consider Botónica, the recently-opened, Latin-inspired cocktail bar near River Oaks District. Aye Candy, a speakeasy-style bar in Spring Branch, is serving a $35 margarita flight with four variations on the popular cocktail.

    Married couple Karinn Chavarria-Luckett and Warren Luckett founded Latin Restaurant Weeks in 2019 to increase awareness of Latin-owned restaurants. Since then, the event has expanded from Houston to Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington, D.C.

    “Latin Restaurant Weeks was created to spotlight the cultural richness woven into each dish and story,” said Karinn Chavarria-Luckett, co-founder of Latin Restaurant Weeks. “It’s a celebration of identity, of creativity, and of the people behind the flavors who make our communities vibrant and strong.”

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