From Our Home Kitchen to Houston
Yosi and Sandra started Gusto Gourmet in 2012 with a home kitchen and a gift for cooking. Over a decade later, Houston keeps coming back.
Gusto Gourmet | Our Story
It Started at Home
In 2012, Yosi and Sandra arrived in Houston and began doing what came naturally — cooking. Sandra's tequeños and crispy falafel traveled hand to hand through the neighborhood until demand outgrew the kitchen.
A Leap on South Shepherd
Within a year of landing in Houston, they signed a lease on South Shepherd Drive in Upper Kirby and opened Gusto Gourmet — a bet on their cooking, their community, and each other. It paid off from the very first week.
Two Heritages, One Menu
Sandra's Venezuelan roots and Yosi's Middle Eastern heritage don't just coexist on the menu — they make each other better. The falafel tostada, patacón fusion, arepa falafel and pabellón cachapa exist nowhere else in Houston.
Houston Took Notice
Alison Cook named Gusto Gourmet to the Houston Chronicle's Top 100 Restaurants list, and Houstonia Magazine called the Latin kibbeh their latest obsession. But the regulars who drive across the city just call it Tuesday.
Still Made With Love
More than a decade in, every cachapa is still hand-poured and every arepa naturally gluten-free. The home kitchen ethos never left — it just has more tables now.
