Sylvia Casares

Brownsville, Texas native and Houston restaurateur, Sylvia Casares, serves the food of her mothers in her three restaurants. A graduate of University of Texas in Austin and a former food scientist for Uncle Ben’s Rice, she opened her first restaurant twenty years-ago. Some of her restaurant's recent recognitions came from USA Today, Texas Monthly magazine, Rachael Ray, and H Texas magazine. In 2008, Casares was selected as one of the top ten best chefs in the USA by the Spanish Language magazine, Siempre Muter. She also recently competed on the Food Channel’s Beat Bobby Flay Show. Casares loves to share her Texas border cuisine with her customers so much so that she built a private cooking school in her Eldridge location, where she teaches cooking classes most Saturdays. She also offers private cooking classes for any of the classes offered to the public for groups of 15 or more. Sylvia is also the proud mother of three wonderful children. They exceeded her wildest hopes for education, that being Harvard University, Georgetown University and Rice University. And her two grandchildren are well on their way to exceeding any expectations even imagined.