barry92

Iron Tiger:  MOST of Houston's Tex-Mex restaurants are unremarkable. They're adequate for a meal out, and you probably won't come home with food poisoning, but they're nothing to write home about. There are some that are better than adequate, and a small few that are simply great, even "remarkable, but I'm keeping their names to myself.

 

Nothing ruins a great restaurant quicker than spreading the word about how great they are. As Yogi Berra once said about a certain New York City restaurant he once frequented: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too popular."

 

Just kidding. I will share the name of the single finest Mexican Restaurant I ever went to when we lived in Houston. Notice I said "Mexican." It isn't strictly Tex-Mex. It serves real Mexican food found in the southern region of Mexico's interior. On any given evening you will find most of the people eating there are Latinos.

 

The name is Romero's Las Brazas Mexican Kitchen. It's at Hwy 6 and Longenbaugh in Copperfield, about 2 miles south of 290.

 

http://romeroslasbrazas.com/

 

Check it out. It's worth the drive to Copperfield. I promise you won't be disappointed. When our son got married in 2006 we held the rehearsal dinner there. It was fantastic.

Great tip.  Thanks!

IT - BINGO!  Casa Elena.  Thanks very much!

IT - no, definitely not Casa Ole.  This one doesn't seem to exist anymore.  Thanks though.

Hello. First post from a newbie.  I used to live near the Oak Ridge area up I-45 in the mid to late 70s.  My folks would take us to a Mexican restaurant at the Robinson road exit.  Casa __________  I believe was the name.  Can anyone fill in the blank?  It was a chain, probably unremarkable, but I have some specific and fond memories of meals there.  There was another location on FM1960, in the vicinity of Stuebner Airline.

Thanks for any help.