Ninfa's on Navigation and other local favorites were among more than 100 Houston restaurants that received only one demerit during health inspections in May, according to inspection records. The term ...

The improvements to operations at the Original Ninfa's on Navigation keep coming. And today's upgrade packs a spirited wallop. Alba Huerta, one of the country's most lauded bartenders, has joined the ...

Since moving to Houston last year I’ve enjoyed exploring the city’s cuisine — to the tune of about seven pounds — but I haven’t hit many of the restaurants that Houstonians consider “institutions.” At ...

HOUSTON – Ninfa's on Navigation first opened its doors in 1973. Only three short years after the restaurant opened, and exactly 40 years ago Friday, Arcadia Lopez, better known as Kady, to her ...

Ninfa’s smoked pork belly torta is a seamless fusion with the bahn mi, and “ven a mí” (come to me), is what Chef Alex Padilla calls it. Credit: Photo by Adán Medrano This is the fifth in a series of ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- He won! Houston chef Alex Padilla was named the Best Chef on the Block on "The Chew." Padilla, executive chef at Legacy Restaurants including The Original Ninfa's on ...

Is there a restaurant more beloved in this city than the original Ninfa's? I think not. The rambling rooms where Ninfa Laurenzo first introduced a grateful city to fajitas in the 1970s have been ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- When Maria "Ninfa" Laurenzo first opened a taco shop in Houston's East End neighborhood in 1973, she was a widow with five children and her tortilla factory was failing. It started ...

The Original Ninfa’s Mexican food restaurant in Houston deserves a word of gratitude from all lovers of Tex-Mex food. While Ninfa Laurenzo didn’t invent tacos al carbon, known as fajitas and made with ...