- July 2, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
The William’s Special at Molina’s Cantina. Photo by Ryan Baker.
Molina’s Cantina opened its doors in 1941 and is Houston’s longest-standing Tex-Mex restaurant. In that time, three generations of the Molina family have created a Tex-Mex legacy. The restaurant has an 80-year history that began with Raul and Mary Molina’s Old Monterey Inn in what is now River Oaks. With few other Mexican restaurants in Houston at the time, the family developed the restaurant into Molina’s Mexico City Restaurant, and later Molina’s Cantina as it is known today.
The menu has many recognizable dishes that give Tex-Mex cuisine its unique identity, such as fajitas, taquitos, tamales, nachos, flour tortillas and crunchy-shelled tacos filled with ground beef, plus more than half a dozen varieties of enchiladas, many smothered in melted yellow cheeses not used in traditional Mexican cuisine.
The chile con carne at Molina’s Cantina is a menu staple. Photo by Kimberly…
