{"id":262132,"date":"2026-04-23T03:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262132\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:19:18","slug":"popular-upper-kirby-houston-restaurant-says-itll-close-for-real-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262132\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Upper Kirby Houston restaurant says it&#8217;ll close &#8212; for real this time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 A beloved Upper Kirby Mexican restaurant says it is closing for real this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The owner of Picos, Arnaldo Richards, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1551478033653515&amp;set=a.376829277785069&amp;locale=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">a post on social media Wednesday<\/a> that it will close August 30. He said he explored every option to stay open, but a group planning to build a high rise has acquired the property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Richards said this is not a farewell, rather a transition, and the team is working to secure a new location for the restaurant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He shared a message with his customers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To everyone who has shared a meal, created memories, celebrated a milestone, or supported us over the past 42 years, our family an staff thank you for your patronage for all these years,&#8221; he said in the post.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant has been at the Kirby location for more than 12 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/picos-kirby-closing\/mailto:newstips@khou.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newstips@khou.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 713-521-4310 and include your name and the best way to reach you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 A beloved Upper Kirby Mexican restaurant says it is closing for real this time.\u00a0 The owner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-262132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262132","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=262132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}