Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles is adding restaurateur to her running list of accolades. Biles, a Spring native, will open a Tex-Mex restaurant in her hometown airport — George Bush Intercontinental Airport, also known as IAH — in early 2025,

The New York Times has included three Texas restaurants — including Viola & Agnes, a soul food restaurant in the Houston area — on its annual list of “our 50 favorite places in America right now.”

First a pop-up, Owner Ope Amosu recently opened ChòpnBlọk’s first standalone brick-and-mortar restaurant in Montrose — a fast-casual but fully realized love letter to the African diaspora, .

In its third year in Houston, Chefs For Farmers will be bigger and better. The organizers say  the city’s best chefs are bringing their A game. Unlimited bites, cocktails and more plus a live DJ, a bit of shopping and even a few surprises, as always!

Southern Smoke Festival, presented by Alaska Seafood, will be here October 5, 2024, with more than 70 food and beverage pros from across the country, along with wine, spirit, and beer producers and outstanding live music at Discovery Green.

Harris County has committed $800,000 to establish the Latino Museum of Cultural and Visual Arts & Archive Complex in East Houston. It is scheduled to open by 2030.