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Soto's Cantina is an authentic Mexican restaurant serving Cypress, TX. Click here to learn more about how to find authentic Mexican food!
25 Jul, 2023
Best of The Best Awards by the Houston Chronicle!
Soto’s voted “TOP CHOICE 2015”
19 Feb, 2015
“Due to its popularity, Soto’s has been voted as ‘TOP CHOICE 2015.’ Your exquisite menu and friendly service have receive positive reviews by our judges and Asian visitors.” The award is from Lianorg – a website, videos, and travel guide that provides professional tourist information to China, Japan and other Asian countries. Soto’s is honored that our reputation for fresh, delicious Mexican and Tex-Mex dishes has spread all the way to Asian nations!
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23 Sep, 2014
Food critic Alison Cook says Friday night Tex-Mex is one of her top five things to do in Houston… we agree! She lists Soto’s as one of her favorites! Read about it.
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11 Jan, 2013
In the great Northwest, Soto’s is Top 10!
08 Dec, 2011
After being open only a few weeks, we were honored with a terrific review in the Houston Chronicle by Alison Cook, Restaurant Critic. Soto’s Cantina is a new Houston Tex-Mex Classic …Soto’s may have my favorite fajitas in town right now. They’re so good that I never bother to roll these charcoaly skirt strips up with anything other than a few of the caramelized onions and ripe jalapeño chile slivers that lurk at the bottom of their cast-iron skillet. No salsa. No pico de gallo. No guacamole. No sour cream. No side-order drizzle of chile con queso. I want nothing to come between me and the primal pleasure of Soto’s beef wrapped in a thin handmade tortilla, its texture tight and slightly elastic. The sliced skirt steak itself is beautifully handled: expansively beefy, tart with lime and aggressively smoke-surfaced, with none of the sugary or insistent soy tones that afflict so many versions. Yes, these fajitas arrive sizzling, a bit of nonsensical crowd-pleasing theater I deplore, but the beef has been carefully grilled every single time I’ve tasted it. It doesn’t continue to cook to death in its small deep-sided, cast-iron pan. And these fajitas are beautiful: garnished with a grilled red-ripe tomato half that would inspire envy in a Persian chef, along with a vivid scarlet ripe-jalapeño toreado, split lengthwise down the middle so that the capsaicin-laden seeds show. The whole thing looks like a jewel box. Which in fact it is. These letter-perfect fajitas are what makes the 30-mile drive from my near-downtown doorstep to Willowbrook/Cy-Fair seem not only doable but desirable. But there are plenty of other attractions on the menu. Indeed, I have yet to try anything at Soto’s Cantina that I didn’t like…
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