Kids Eat Free!
For a limited time, one or two children under twelve can select one item each from the children’s menu for free when sitting at the same table with an adult ordering lunch or dinner (adult minimum purchase $15). Offer is for dine-in customers only, children must be present.

Wednesdays at El Real Tex-Mex Cafe are a regular family night fiesta with old kid’s movies and TV shows on the big movie screen and other kid-oriented attractions.

For our customers who prefer to dine in calmer environs, we’ll also be turning the balcony section into an adults only area on Wednesdays.

To celebrate our new El Real Tex-Mex concession on the club level at Minute Maid, we’re giving away free club level tickets to upcoming Astros games!!

Join us at El Real Tex-Mex Cafe every Tuesday and Thursday for happy hour and enter your name in the drawing with one of our bartenders. You’ll be eligible to win two tickets to an upcoming game. The drawing will take place Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30 PM. (You must be present to win.)

Lucky winners will leave El Real with two club level tickets in hand. We’ll also throw in a free order of ballpark nachos from our new El Real Tex-Mex concession stand.

Go Astros!

We were trying on bathing suits the other day when we concluded that maybe, every now and then, we ought to have a low-carb lunch. And so we came up with a couple of Summer Lunch Specials, like this crab and guacamole salad, that make a low-carb diet a little easier to bear.

The Campechana Salad, a half order of our Campechana Cocktail spread on half an avocado with a big plate of salad mix underneath, was the most popular of the new items on the day we introduced them. But a grilled chicken breast with ancho-tomatillo sauce and a cucumber salad was a close second. There’s also a grilled chile relleno and a simple taco salad on the new lighter summer lunch menu.

If you want to stick to your regular diet of cheese enchiladas and refried beans we understand–but we also got you covered if you or your lunch mates are looking for lighter fare.

Robb Walsh will be signing his new cookbook TEXAS EATS on Saturday from 5 pm to 7pm at El Real. The book has a “Vintage Tex-Mex” section with four chapters on Tex-Mex history and lots of time-honored recipes. Robb will on hand most of the night, so come in and say hello.

If you can’t make it Saturday, you can pick up the book another time. El Real will be carrying Robb’s new book in the retail case along with the Tex-Mex Cookbook and the Tex-Mex Grill.

Our new Anaheim chile relleno is stuffed with cheese and served in our vegetarian “Friday sauce.” (They call the meatless enchilada sauce “Friday sauce” in South Texas because Catholics can eat it on Friday and during lent.) You can get a single cheese-stuffed Anaheim relleno for $4.95 or two for $7.95. These come with vegetarian rice and vegetarian refried black beans.

Yes, of course, you can still get the big, tasty chicken and cheese-stuffed poblano chile relleno too–it’s on the ala carte menu and also on the famous Chingo Bling Platter with a tamale and a green chicken enchilada with refried beans and rice.

Add El Real to your Meatless Monday restaurant list. (No we aren’t going meatless, but we don’t mind if you do.) If you have a Montrose driver’s license, you can combine your Meatless Monday with Montrose Monday and get your vegetarian meal for half price!

O Come All Ye Faithful!

We’ll be showing the Patriots Giants Super Showdown on the big screen!

Up until now, we’ve reserved the big screen in the former Tower Theater for old Westerns and classic movies. But we’re so excited about the Texans bid for the superbowl that this Saturday, and throughout the Houston Texans postseason play, the game will be shown on El Real’s version of the jumbotron–our giant movie screen!

El Real Tex-Mex will also be offering food and beverage specials throughout the game! Come join the fun!

On Friday December 16 from 5 pm until 6:30 pm, Robb Walsh will be personalizing and autographing books at El Real Tex-Mex Cafe.

You can bring your books from home, or you an purchase copies of The Tex-Mex Cookbook and The Tex-Mex Grill at the restaurant. What better gift for the cooks on your Christmas list?

Or how about an El Real Gift Box–it contains an autographed book, a T-shirt with the “Praise the Lard and Pass the Frijoles” El Real Tex-Mex Cafe, Houston, TX design in the size of your choice, and a dozen of our housemade pralines, all wrapped up in a shiny red box with chile pepper tissue paper–a bargain at $45.

Come hungry and thirsty, because that’s Happy Hour. We’ll have $2 tacos, $5 flautas and special deals on rosaritas and cold cans of Modelo Especial and Lone Star beer.

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Many thanks to Maya Fastoff!

Justin Saunders, General Manager of El Real Tex-Mex Cafe, shows off the just-delivered “Best Tex-Mex” award plaque from the Houston Press. The plaque was hung on the wall Friday kicking off a wild week-end.

Saturday, El Real was slammed from 10 pm until well after 3 am as the Montrose Club Crawl took over the neighborhood.

Sunday was a perfect day on El Real’s Westheimer patio or for watching Texans football while eating nachos and drinking $2 Lone Stars.

Don’t miss Montrose Monday tonight–show a Montrose zip on your DL and get half price food for the whole table!