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Kosher Food/ Restaurants:
for the most updated list see http://kosherhouston.org

Casa Bar & Grill- Upscale Dining
Genesis- Upscale Dining
Dino’s- Israeli Style, Schwarma, Schnitzel and more.
Taste of Tel Aviv Schwarma- Schwarma & Schnitzel Shop. Pita and Laffa are baked fresh in house daily.
Saba’s Wok & Grill- Family Style Restaurant
Saba’s Pizza
Taste of Tel Aviv Dairy- Pizza & Dairy Restaurant
Laykie’s Gourmet- Located in the JCC
Bagel Shop Bakery- Bellaire & Hillcroft Location
Greenfresh (Ofir’s)- Salad bar & pizza within the grocery. Located within Fondren Towers. Right side of right building.

Supermarket
Greenfresh (Ofir’s)- Full kosher grocery & baked goods.
The Kosher Butcher- GlKosher grocery & butcher. Reasonable pricing.
Randall’s Meyerland- Large supermarket with Kosher deli. Carrying a full line of kosher products including Cholov Yisroel. Full delicious kosher bakery section. Both parave options & Cholov Yisroel.
HEB Bellaire- Large supermarket. Carrying a full line of kosher products including meat & Cholov Yisroel. Bakery section has some packaged goods with HKA certification. HEB sells prepackaged Deli sandwiches bearing HKA certification on packaging.

Synagogue:
Heimish of Houston- http://heimish.org/
Young Israel Houston-https://www.yihouston.org/
https://www.chabadhouston.com/    Has Mikvah for Men & Women
http://www.meyerlandminyan.org/
https://www.uosh.org/   Has Mikva
https://bethrambam.org/  Sephardi
http://www.torahvachesed.com/  Sephardi


Things to Do:
Texas Gun Club- Stafford
Hotels:

Getting Around:
You will need a car to get around.
Notes:


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Re: Houston TX master thread
« Reply #80 on: June 07, 2023, 07:09:29 PM »
Best place for breakfast and lunch?
Casa for lunch.

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Re: Houston TX master thread
« Reply #81 on: June 07, 2023, 09:58:32 PM »
Lunch
look here for the choices
(my brother owns https://www.casabarandgrill.com.... so I will leave the choice up to you-you know what I would say)
https://kosherhouston.org/kosher-in-houston/
Nice, and thanks for the disclosure!

Best dishes?
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Re: Houston TX master thread
« Reply #82 on: June 08, 2023, 04:20:09 PM »
Nice, and thanks for the disclosure!

Best dishes?
I cannot comment as the menu changes periodically. I don’t know what he has now.

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Re: Houston TX master thread
« Reply #83 on: June 09, 2023, 06:07:37 PM »
Best place for breakfast and lunch?

Genesis steakhouse also excellent. Chicken fried steak is the best.

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Re: Houston TX master thread
« Reply #84 on: June 28, 2023, 10:22:31 AM »
Do any of the kosher places deliver to the airport? Iah

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« Reply #85 on: July 30, 2023, 05:39:04 PM »
Best options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner spots?
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Re: Houston TX master thread
« Reply #86 on: July 30, 2023, 05:52:46 PM »
Genesis is good for dinner. Cool flaming sushi
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Re: Houston TX master thread
« Reply #87 on: July 30, 2023, 08:07:34 PM »
Best options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner spots?
Bagel shop Bellaire for breakfast

Lunch can go to sabas pizza, or taste of TLV. Sabas is better option imo.

Dinner there is either sabas wok (fast food/Chinese), genesis ( nicer restaurant with good prices, or casa grill ( more higher end)

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« Reply #88 on: July 30, 2023, 09:08:01 PM »
Bagel shop Bellaire for breakfast

Lunch can go to sabas pizza, or taste of TLV. Sabas is better option imo.

Dinner there is either sabas wok (fast food/Chinese), genesis ( nicer restaurant with good prices, or casa grill ( more higher end)
Thanks!
Any particular dishes stand out at those places?
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Re: Houston TX master thread
« Reply #89 on: July 31, 2023, 12:27:06 AM »
Thanks!
Any particular dishes stand out at those places?
If you go to Saba's Pizza and order a pizza, then get the personal pie. The regular is tiny.

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Casa or Genesis for dinner?
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Re: Houston TX master thread
« Reply #91 on: August 01, 2023, 11:58:45 AM »
Casa or Genesis for dinner?

Genesis

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Genesis
What happened to their sushi?
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What happened to their sushi?
sushi chef went on leave. waiter had no idea when/if he'll be back.

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« Reply #95 on: August 17, 2023, 01:16:08 PM »
Casa, Saba’s Wok & Grill, and Bagel Shop Bakery were all extremely impressive!

Was blown away by the quality of each one. Highly unusual for out of town places.
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Re: Houston TX master thread
« Reply #97 on: January 19, 2024, 11:08:28 AM »
We are thinking of a last minute Midwinter vacation trip to Houston. From reading this forum it seems like there are an unusual amount of quality restaurants for an out of town community but not that many activities other than Shooting and NASA. There also seems to be warm, vibrant & welcoming frum community but no nearby hotels to make staying there for shabbos possible.   I guess there's an option to stay at a hotel near Chabad uptown that offers Friday night dinner and has a kiddush shabbos morning.

Does anyone have any other info, ideas or tips on how to enjoy a long weekend in Houston.

Dan, how was your trip there this past summer. Anything to add?

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We are thinking of a last minute Midwinter vacation trip to Houston. From reading this forum it seems like there are an unusual amount of quality restaurants for an out of town community but not that many activities other than Shooting and NASA. There also seems to be warm, vibrant & welcoming frum community but no nearby hotels to make staying there for shabbos possible.   I guess there's an option to stay at a hotel near Chabad uptown that offers Friday night dinner and has a kiddush shabbos morning.

Does anyone have any other info, ideas or tips on how to enjoy a long weekend in Houston.

Dan, how was your trip there this past summer. Anything to add?
It was brutally hot.
Casa, Saba's Wok, and Bagel Shop were all excellent.
Hyatt Galleria was great for a night.
Minute Maid Park was fine, but far behind the amenities offered by Globe Life Park.
Cavender's was a fun stop.
Houston annual Rodeo is supposed to be fun.
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Re: Houston TX master thread
« Reply #99 on: February 21, 2024, 12:39:20 AM »


Gorgeous brand new pool and jacuzzi!

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