When we’re looking for restaurant partners, we’re searching for the best of the best from trendy downtown restaurants to scrappy food trucks to hidden-gem mom and pops. We’re proud of our roster and each year we celebrate it with the Best of Fooda awards, asking you to choose your favorites. The votes are in, and here are your winners for Houston’s Best of Fooda 2019.

Best Cajun | Single Best Lunch – Mikki’s Café Soul Food

10500 W. Bellfort St. #100 Houston, Tx. 77031

Mikki’s Café Soul Food serves huge portions of authentic home cooking, inspired by classic Creole and Cajun cuisine. Founded in 2000, the spot has been winning awards left and right including the Houston Press’ Best Of award for Soul Food in 2016. See what all the fuss is about with an entree of ox tails or pepper steak. Both dishes come with cornbread, seasoned green beans, and candied yams.

Best BBQ – OMG BBQ

205 West Crosstimbers Road, Houston, TX 77018

Congrats to OMG BBQ, they’ve been named Houston’s Best BBQ for the second year in a row! Notable dishes include grass-fed burgers on toasted challah, pit-smoked pinto beans, and a breakfast casserole filled with smoked beef sausage, egg, onion, and cheese served on a bed of potatoes. 

Best Mexican – FREEB!RDS

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Another repeat Best of Fooda winner! FREEB!RDS has been rolling burritos bigger than your head for more than three decades. Order up and watch these craftspeople turn your unique list of fillings (rice, beans, cheese, veggies), protein (grilled chicken, slow-roasted carnitas, steak), and tortilla (wheat, flour, cayenne) into a marvel of culinary engineering.