HOUSTON — There’s no shortage of top-notch spots to eat around the Houston area and now one of them in a suburb has been named on a list of the nation’s top 50.
The list, which was put out by the New York Times, has a Seabrook Creole restaurant on it -- Viola and Agnes’ Neo Soul Café. According to the New York Times, the restaurant on NASA Road 1 has “poor signage but big flavors” and calls it a “soul-food dreamscape, suffused with flavors of the sea: salty, snappy links of andouille sought; and fat hunts of bone-in chicken just waiting to be discovered as you dig in.”
Viola and Agnes’ Neo Soul Café has been around since 2015.
Want to try it? Here's a map to get there,
Want to read more about what the New York Times had to say about it? Here’s their mouth-watering write-up.
Two other Texas restaurants made the list – Simply South in Irving and Barbs BQ in Lockhart
You can see the full New York Times list here.
How did they come up with the list?
According to the New York Times, their editors and reporters traveled to restaurants across the country (nice gig, huh!) to sample restaurants to put on the list. This year, they said they focused on “spaces as much as places.”
The Times said on their list, 32 of the restaurants had opened since the 2023 list came out. They also have some classics, including one that opened in 1976.
