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Zydeco Louisiana Diner

1119 Pease
Houston, TX 77002

713-759-2001 | Website

Downtown/ Midtown | Get Directions  | 

Category: Restaurants | Cajun, Creole

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This ramshackle, cafeteria-style Cajun place offers a wealth of simple pleasures, among them bacony black-eyed peas, moist corn bread and mashed potatoes yellow with butter. Thumbs up to the shrimp poor boy, with its rowdy mix of tastes and textures; ixnay, though, on the glutinous bread pudding.

  • Cuisine(s): Cajun, Creole

    Hours: Mon-Fri 11am-2pm

    Price: $

  • Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards, Diners Club, cash

    Attire: Casual

    Features: Smoking, Takeout, Private Party, Catering, Wheelchair Accessible, Business Dining

  • Serving: Lunch

    Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary

    Parking: Lot Available

  • 2010 | Best Soul Food Restaurant

    Although it bills itself as Cajun food from southern Louisiana, there's quite a bit of soul to this downtown institution. Since 1986, Zydeco has served up classic steam-table fare and Cajun favorites to a wide variety of downtown denizens: Cops,... More >

  • 2006 | Best Meat and Three

    Hosting a group of Katrina evacuees last year, Zydeco quickly won them over with its stellar gumbo and red beans and rice. This joint can hang with most any Cajun place on the Gulf Coast. But what really packs in the business crowd every day are... More >

  • 2002 | Best Mashed Potatoes

    When you query the folks at Zydeco Louisiana Diner as to just why their mashed potatoes taste so good, they look at you quizzically and reply, "They're real." Duh. Of course they are. There's simply no way instant taters could provide such... More >

  • 2001 | Best Cajun Restaurant

    'Taint nothing fancy about the cafeteria-style serving line, nothing surprising about the coon-ass doodads hanging on the wall, and nothing progressive about green beans swimming in cream of mushroom soup or fried catfish and stuffed pork chops.... More >

Houston Press Reviews and News

  • Continuing the Crab Kick at Zydeco

    By Katharine Shilcutt | Fri, August 13, 2010

    ​Okay, so maybe I'm on a bit of a crab kick lately. But there's something about summer and crab that go together like summer and peaches, summer and tomatoes, summer and field peas. It's just o More >

  • No Cracker Required

    By Paul Galvani | Thu, July 28, 2005

    When you consider the amount of effort it takes to consume boiled crawfish, it's a wonder anyone still eats them. Getting your mudbug fix is much easier when someone does the work for you. The crawfish étouffée ($7.95) at the Zydeco Louisiana Dine... More >

  • Cher Thing

    By Eric Lawlor | Thu, March 19, 1998

    There are now two Zydeco diners -- one on Pease, the other on Travis -- and, as far as I'm concerned, that's not nearly enough. In a perfect world, there'd be dozens of Zydecos -- one of them right across the street from my house. You won't fi... More >

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