Three Houston-area restaurants land on Yelp’s Top 100 Places to Eat in US

Yelp has named three Houston restaurants to its list of the top 100 places to eat in the U.S. The list is entirely user-generated and weighted on restaurant ratings, reviews, the volume of submissions and geographic representation, according to the website.

Five other Texas places made the list: two in Austin and three others in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

The Chronicle has its own Top 100 list, but this one isn’t a spreadsheet curated by data scientists in San Francisco. Each year, food critic Alison Cook ventures in and out of the city to find Houston’s best restaurants. You can see which ones made the list, including No. 1, at houstonchronicle.com/ projects/2022/best-houstonrestaurants.

Vietwich

The Vietnamese banh mi and boba tea shop got its start in 2019. This is the Stafford restaurant’s third time on Yelp’s Top 100 Places to Eat list. We wrote about Vietwich last year when Yelp released their best eats for Texas. Aside from banh mi, Vietwich also has a selection of teas, smoothies and snacks.

203 Dulles; vietwich.co

Crumbville

Ella Russell’s Third Ward bakery started off as a pop-up and eventually turned into a brick-and-mortar spot around October 2017. Since then, it’s emerged as a local favorite and found itself on a number of “best of ” lists, including this one. Russell’s bakery serves vegan, gluten-free and nonvegan cookies, brownies and her famous “stuffedcups” — cupcakes baked with a cookie inside.

3409 Emancipation; crumbvillehtx.com

Burger Chan

Willet and Diane Feng opened their burger joint in 2016 as Kuma Burgers but were forced to rename it due to a trademark dispute. The restaurant attracted plenty of accolades and attention, but the Fengs had to close the original Greenway Plaza location when the pandemic took hold. Sixteen months later, Burger Chan returned to Houston by way of a West Alabama strip mall. The menu includes a few signature burgers, but you can customize them to your liking.

5353 W. Alabama; burgerchanhtx.com

Alison Cook/Staff A 5-ounce grilled cheddar cheeseburger with sautéed onions, kimchi relish and sambal mayo is available at Burger Chan.

Houston Chronicle file Crumbville owner Ella Russell’s bakery started as a pop-up.

Google Maps Vietwich, a Vietnamese banh mi and boba tea shop, is located in Stafford.