Merida Restaurant

🎄✨ Holiday Hours ✨🎄 Celebrate Christmas Eve with us! We will be serving your favorite dishes until 3:00 PM. We will be closed from Christmas Day until January 2nd to give our staff a holiday break to spend with their families. We look forward to welcoming you in the new year! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from our family to yours ❤️

We were honored to host Que Onda Magazine holiday party at Merida Restaurant. Merry Christmas to all!

Thank you so much to For Fork's Sake for their amazing review of our cochinita pibil! We love sharing our Yucatán favorites with Houston foodies 😋

This past weekend, I had lunch with a friend at Merida Restaurant in Houston. I hadn't been there in ages! Their offerings include dishes from the Yucatan Peninsula (Merida is the capital of the state of Yucatan in Mexico). Of course, when I saw cochinita pibil on the menu, I HAD to order it. Not many restaurants offer this divine dish and even fewer can do it justice.

It was a flavor explosion in my mouth...I could taste the beautiful spices, including the cinnamon which to me, only enhanced everything. I don't usually order flour tortillas but I did at Merida, because they are handmade. They're thicker than the usual found at a Tex-Mex restaurant.

Other restaurants where I've found fantastic cochinita pibil:
Sazón in Austin, TX owned and operated by my friend and his wife.

AND special shout out to the cochinita pibil man on Isla Mujeres! 🤩 It's an adventure to drive around the island and find him selling at a gas station...because you saw the line of people on the street.