Merida Restaurant

01/26/2026

We are open today till 3pm! Come warm up with a big bowl of menudo or a jumbo breakfast taco!

05/01/2025

🎉WE'RE BACK!!💃

Houston, set your calendar for Saturday, May 3. The East End Street Fest is back on the Esplanade at Navigation!!!

Regresa en festival de calle East End Street Fest. Acompañenos el sabado 3 de mayo!

Help us spread the word! East End Market East End Houston East End District

01/20/2025

Come warm up at Merida with one of our favorite soups! We are open until 3:00 today with hot Menudo, Pozole, Caldo de Pollo, and Caldo de Res ready to go 😊

12/23/2024

🎄✨ Holiday Hours ✨🎄 Celebrate Christmas Eve with us! We will be serving your favorite dishes until 3:00 PM. We will be closed from Christmas Day until January 2nd to give our staff a holiday break to spend with their families. We look forward to welcoming you in the new year! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from our family to yours ❤️

12/20/2024

We were honored to host Que Onda Magazine holiday party at Merida Restaurant. Merry Christmas to all!

12/11/2024

We have closed for the day so we can party all night! Setting up the Mercado de Merida to celebrate the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Come enjoy the festivities starting at 3:00.

10/08/2024

🚨New Happy Hour!!🚨 - All day Monday through Thursday at Merida Mexican Restaurant we are serving up $3 Domestics, $4 Imports, $5.50 House margaritas, and $7 Flavored Margaritas. Cheers!! 🍻

07/09/2024

Spicing up your night until 9 pm, Hurricane Beryl can’t dampen our flavor fiesta! Come on in! 🌮🌀

05/20/2024

We appreciate your support! We will be reopening tomorrow - Tuesday 5/21 - with a limited menu for the time being while we replace the food we lost in the storm. Our family and staff thank you for your patience and understanding this week!

05/17/2024

We will be closed today due to yesterdays storms. We will reopen as soon as we can!

04/17/2024

Thank you so much to For Fork's Sake for their amazing review of our cochinita pibil! We love sharing our Yucatán favorites with Houston foodies 😋

This past weekend, I had lunch with a friend at Merida Restaurant in Houston. I hadn't been there in ages! Their offerings include dishes from the Yucatan Peninsula (Merida is the capital of the state of Yucatan in Mexico). Of course, when I saw cochinita pibil on the menu, I HAD to order it. Not many restaurants offer this divine dish and even fewer can do it justice.

It was a flavor explosion in my mouth...I could taste the beautiful spices, including the cinnamon which to me, only enhanced everything. I don't usually order flour tortillas but I did at Merida, because they are handmade. They're thicker than the usual found at a Tex-Mex restaurant.

Other restaurants where I've found fantastic cochinita pibil:
Sazón in Austin, TX owned and operated by my friend and his wife.

AND special shout out to the cochinita pibil man on Isla Mujeres! 🤩 It's an adventure to drive around the island and find him selling at a gas station...because you saw the line of people on the street.

03/28/2024

🌼 Happy Easter! 🌼 Just a heads up to all our amazing customers - we will be closed this Easter Sunday so our hardworking staff can enjoy the day with their loved ones. We’ll be back bright and early on Monday to serve you with more delicious food! Have a fantastic Easter weekend!