{"id":242912,"date":"2026-04-10T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242912\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:46:08","slug":"texas-steakhouse-chain-confirms-suburban-houston-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242912\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas steakhouse chain confirms suburban Houston expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Texas&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/food\/article\/best-buffets-houston-16595564.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">popular Brazilian steakhouses<\/a> is busy preparing plans for a second location in the Houston area.\u00a0Chama Ga\u00facha confirmed to Chron the restaurant chain is expanding to Katy sometime in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>A rumor about Chama Ga\u00facha&#8217;s second location appeared Wednesday on the Katy\/Fort Bend Foodies Facebook group. According to the post, the Brazilian steakhouse was taking over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/business\/article\/immigrants-built-up-from-the-barrios-to-big-1562134.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">old Doneraki<\/a> Fuego y Mar Mexican Grill at 24205 Katy Fwy. Chama Ga\u00facha general manager Fernando Santibanez told Chron the post had it right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very excited about this new opportunity to continue serving the Houston Community,&#8221; Santibanez wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the upcoming Chama Ga\u00facha, including an opening date, were not disclosed. Coincidentally, I was just thinking about the restaurant at 5865 Westheimer Rd. My wife and I had our engagement party there. I had probably one too many caipirinhas and ran into her cousin&#8217;s fist while taking a photo (good times).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonio.culturemap.com\/news\/restaurants-bars\/chama-gaucha-grapevine-san-antonio\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">CultureMap San Antonio<\/a>, Jo\u00e3o Carlos Ongaratto founded Chama Ga\u00facha in San Antonio following a 20-year stint with\u00a0Fogo de Chao. The churrascaria follows a similar all-you-can-eat format of restaurants like Fogo and Churrascos. Diners get red and green cards for their meals, with the latter meaning &#8220;keep bringing those unlimited servings of meat served on skewers,&#8221; and the former meaning &#8220;please stop.&#8221; There&#8217;s also salads, side dishes like p\u00e3o de queijo, and an assortment of desserts.<\/p>\n<p>Chama Gaucha also has locations near the Houston Galleria, and in the Dallas, Chicago and San Antonio areas.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime Houstonians may have remembered the old Doneraki&#8217;s that Chama Ga\u00facha is replacing. It was one of the old Tex-Mex chains that used to have locations around Houston. The last one, its original location in Gulfgate, closed in February 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Texas&#8217; popular Brazilian steakhouses is busy preparing plans for a second location in the Houston area.\u00a0Chama&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1703,1704,56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-242912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-chronfood","9":"tag-chronstaff","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}