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3 cajun creole places in Houston we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Houston | Cajun Creole across every city.
Houston sits close enough to Louisiana that Cajun and Creole cooking reads as local, from gumbo and etouffee to crawfish boils. Brennan's of Houston on Smith Street in Montrose is the city's grande dame of Creole dining, while Crawfish and Noodles on Bellaire Boulevard in the Asiatown corridor shows the Viet-Cajun crawfish style that Houston helped popularize.
Brennan's of Houston is the 1967 Texas Creole dining room on Smith Street from the New Orleans Brennan family, with turtle soup, bananas Foster tableside.
OrderTurtle soup with sherry on the side. Bananas Foster, flambeed tableside, to close.
TipSunday jazz brunch at 10am or noon books fast.
Crawfish and Noodles in Houston is Trong Nguyen's Viet-Cajun room on Bellaire Boulevard since 2008, the country's defining Viet-Cajun crawfish boil.
OrderA pound of crawfish (in season Feb to June), the blue crab in house garlic butter, salt-pepper shrimp.
TipCrawfish are seasonal. October to January menu pivots to blue crab and Dungeness. Cash card surcharges apply.
Brennan's of Houston is the 1967 Texas Creole dining room on Smith Street, the New Orleans Brennan family's Houston outpost, with turtle soup.
OrderTurtle soup with sherry. Bananas Foster, flambeed tableside, to close. Pecan-crusted Gulf fish at dinner.
TipSunday jazz brunch is the local routine. Reserve the courtyard if the temperature stays under 30C.
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