Wood-fired pizza, farm-to-table steak: Houston gained these 14 restaurants, cafes in July<\/a><\/p>\nThe opening marks the latest chapter in a long story for\u00a0Huynh. Dang\u2019s mom, Van Bui, opened a small restaurant she called Pho Huynh in Midtown in the mid-\u201990s. She closed it about 10 years later, amid a difficult time in her personal life, Dang said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Around 2008, Bui told Dang she was bored, so she launched Huynh Restaurant in EaDo at 912 St. Emanuel St., where it still operates today.<\/p>\n
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Huynh didn\u2019t get much buzz at first, Dang said. Then one night, she picked up the phone and learned that Alison Cook, the Houston Chronicle\u2019s former restaurant critic, was planning to publish a positive review. After it ran, customers lined up outside before the restaurant opened, and Huynh sold out within a few hours, Dang recalled.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an amazing feeling,\u201d she\u00a0said. \u201cEspecially with my mom, how she never had that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clockwise from top left: Huynh’s new Richmond location, family photos on the wall, a wine display and the lettuce wrap.<\/p>\n
From top: Huynh’s new Richmond location, family photos on the wall, the lettuce wrap and a wine display.<\/p>\n
Her mom retired about a decade ago, Dang said, but Dang and her siblings are keeping the business going. Her brother runs a similar restaurant, called Ead Vietnamese Restaurant, in Shenandoah.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When she started hearing more about the I-45 transformation, Dang said, she wasn\u2019t sure what would happen. But she decided it would be time to start looking elsewhere.<\/p>\n
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Cindy Dang, owner of Huynh, prepares betel leaf-wrapped beef in the kitchen of the restaurant\u2019s new location at 2720 Richmond in Houston on Tuesday,\u00a0Aug. 18, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Two and a half years later, she found the location on Richmond and fell in love. The fact that the landlord liked the original Huynh helped her get the lease, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just love the area, and a lot of our customers live around here as well,\u201d\u00a0Dang said. \u201cAnd I think it’s a great area for Vietnamese food.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ground pork, tofu and shrimp lettuce wrap is prepared at\u00a0Huynh\u2019s new location at 2720 Richmond in Houston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-411963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411963","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=411963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}