Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen new restaurant location on Eldridge Parkway

Sylvia's Energy Corridor Location: View of Entrance with Folk Art

Margarita with Sylvia's Menu 

1140 Eldridge Pkwy Ste 100 Houston, TX 77077 

This restaurant space near the Holiday Inn
was previously occupied by Sharky's Amercian Grill
and Enclave Grill before then

Sylvia's billboard on Highway 6 near Memorial Dr. 

Mexican food on Eldridge Parkway

La Guitarra con Sazón Peruvian Cuisine joins El Matador on Westheimer near Dairy Ashford

New Peruvian Concept joins El Matador Mexican Grill & Bar in shopping center on Westheimer near Dairy Ashford, which has seen the opening and closing of multiple restaurants in recent years and has other vacant space for lease. El Matador Grill and Bar offers music and dancing in addition to food and margaritas, and has shown greater staying power than others in that location (most recently Urban Cafe, and La Prima Grill, an Italian Restaurant, for a couple of years or so prior to that).

12719 Westheimer Rd (Ashford Park Dr.), Houston, TX 77077

(Ashford Park Court)

El Matador with roadside van featuring pic of hot Latin Lady promoting sizzling fajitas

El Rancho Mexican Restaurant

El Rancho Mexican Restaurant on Katy Freeway near Barker - Cypress

Joel's Mexican Grill (photos of restaurant property)

This restaurant has a note posted saying it is permanently closed. It's quite colorful still. At least a feast for the eyes (and the lens). 

New restaurant openings along Katy Freeway: Tony's, El Rancho, Food on Top of Golf

Margarita heaven after the cafe binge? 

Following a wave to new restaurant starts on Eldridge Parkway in 2012 -- predominantly cafes, the entrepreneurial frenzy seems to have shifted a little farther West toward Katy, with several new food and beverage operations on the way -- if not already completed -- on the North side of outbound I-10 past Highway 6.  

Tony's Mexican Restaurant - New Katy Freeway Location

Two more spots offering Mexican cuisine -- Tony's Mexican Restaurant and El Rancho - will enhance the South-of-the-border culinary panorama in this West Houston area that is currently seeing a construction boom that has dotted the horizon with cranes.  

El Rancho Mexican Restaurant north of Interstate 10 near Barker-Cypress

Not that the Energy Corridor does not already cater to Tex-Mex-craving palates with several existing establishments: 
    

Fiesta Sombrero's Grill y Cantina on Park Row, and two in the Grisby restaurant square in the SE corner of the Katy Freeway-Texas 6 interchange: Lupe Tortilla's  and Las Ventanas; 

not to mention the Poblanos Mexican Cafe farther South on Eldridge, and two on Memorial Drive: La Hacienda and Ninfa's Mexican Restaurant.

And then there is that gigantic new club swinger's paradise - TopGolf Houston. It's a golfing venue, alright, and a high-tech one at that, not to mention the enormous nets that have altered the skyline; but the newly erected leisure venue with landmark pretensions has food service as well to complement the fun, -- and drinks of course.

TopGolf frontal - Stairs leading up to entrance

TopGolf at Night - Drive-by-view of logo and lighted net posts from the Freeway

Sombrero's Mexican Restaurant

Ninfa's location on Memorial Drive

Ninfa's Mexican Restaurant on Memorial Drive a little West of intersection with Dairy Ashford

The original Ninfa's is located on Navigation Boulevard East of Downtown. Other Ninfa's locations around Houston -- such as the Ninfa's Restaurant on Kirby Drive at Richmond, -- were sold and converted to Maggie Ritas, and failed commercially shortly thereafter. The one on Memorial so far has kept operating under its original name. 

La Hacienda Mexican Restaurant on Memorial Dr.

Poblano's Mexican Grill on Eldridge Parkway

Poblano's Mexican Grill 1250 Eldridge Pkwy Houston, TX 77077

Poblano's Mexican Grill  - interior

Poblanos Mexican Grill on Eldridge Parkway
across from Staybridge Suites Hotel

Lupe Tortilla Mexican Restaurant and Cantina

Lupe Tortilla 318 Stafford St Houston, TX 77079

Las Ventanas Restaurant & Cantina (photos)

Las Ventanas Signage in the dark
with Energy Corridor Mexican restaurant behind

Las Ventanas Restaurant & Cantina 14555 Grisby Road Houston, TX 77079

Las Ventanas logo on sign in Mexican Restaurant's parking lot on Grisby Rd.

Entrada Las Ventanas Restaurante Mexicano y Cantina 

Panoramic view of Mexican Restaurant and Las Ventanas logo on sign

Mexican Food and Tex-Mex Westheimer Eldridge Parkway Katy Freeway area

El Matador Mexican Bar & Grill on Westheimer with
themed van in the parking lot

Sylvia's Mexican Food & Bar - Signage at Entrance

Sylvia's enchilada place, the original location
on Westheimer near Dairy Ashford

Poblanos Mexican Grill on Eldridge Parkway
across from Staybridge Suites Hotel

Taco Cabana Signage
Drive-through on Highway 6 near Westheimer

Taco Cabana location on SH-6 South of Westheimer
with Palm Trees

8/16/2013 UPDATE: Lockout notice posted August 2013