{"id":64691,"date":"2025-07-14T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/64691\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:07:09","slug":"two-week-dining-event-celebrates-houstons-latin-owned-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/64691\/","title":{"rendered":"Two week dining event celebrates Houston&#8217;s Latin-owned restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A two-week celebration of Latin food and culture has begun in Houston. <a href=\"https:\/\/latinrestaurantweeks.com\/houston-listings\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Latin Restaurant Weeks<\/strong><\/a> has returned for its seventh year.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s restaurants \u2014 Mexican staple Hugo\u2019s, seafood restaurant Caracol, Oaxacan restaurant Xochi, and street food favorite Urbe \u2014 as well as Brazilian steakhouses, casual taquerias, and bakeries. <\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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\u2019s Michelin-recommended restaurant, the options consist of a two-course lunch and a three-course dinner (pricing information wasn\u2019t available at press time). In contrast, Urbe\u2019s sole offering is a three crispy pork belly taco plate for $17.<\/p>\n<p>Those looking for more of a bar experience should consider <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/restaurants-bars\/botonica-cocktail-bar-houston-opening\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Bot\u00f3nica<\/a>, the recently-opened, Latin-inspired cocktail bar near River Oaks District. <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/restaurants-bars\/aye-candy-bar-spring-branch\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Aye Candy<\/a>, a speakeasy-style bar in Spring Branch, is serving a $35 margarita flight with four variations on the popular cocktail. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLatin Restaurant Weeks was created to spotlight the cultural richness woven into each dish and story,\u201d said Karinn Chavarria-Luckett, co-founder of Latin Restaurant Weeks. \u201cIt\u2019s a celebration of identity, of creativity, and of the people behind the flavors who make our communities vibrant and strong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A two-week celebration of Latin food and culture has begun in Houston. Latin Restaurant Weeks has returned for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,41660,12212,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-64691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-latin-restaurant-weeks","10":"tag-news-you-can-eat","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114851272641157279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}